Comments on: A Correction and Rebuttal

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:56:27 +0000

In reply to Stevie Jake. Already done. The latest revision is the reply. This was announced in my Ehrman recap.

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:44:17 +0000

In reply to jacobfromlost. It's an old colloquialism, "take it as wrote" (analogously, "the law as wrote," "the story as wrote," etc., meaning the same thing: without challenge).

By: Stevie Jake

Stevie Jake — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:27:19 +0000

Still waiting on that reply to Thom Stark…

By: David Hillman

David Hillman — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:49:19 +0000

It is by no means a consensus that the characters in Beowulf, apart forom Beowulf himself are based on real people. There was a Hygelac but Gregory of Tours makes him a Dane not a Geat. That the Shieldings and Ynglings really existed is doubtful, since such names for lineages were not used in the north till much later. That some burial mounds in Sweden were later associated with named Yngling kings in the story is no proof. I believe the Shieldings were the great army of vikings from Frisia so named by the Northumbrians, whose clan were backdated in made up stories. There are several plausible origins for the name: see for example Scalding in Alex Woolfe’s From Pictland to Alba. Also Irish names in story were back projections often from the invented genealogies of later kindreds. Much more fiction than allowed in the assumptions of the story, and fewer historical characters than in Shakespeare.

By: jacobfromlost

jacobfromlost — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:24:39 +0000

Shouldn’t it be “not the entire stories as written”, rather than “not the entire stories as wrote”?

Unless I missed something.

By: 'Tis Himself

'Tis Himself — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:04:27 +0000

I noticed that Grabbe accused you of chest beating and penis waving when he was the one indulging in that behavior.