heavy cavalry engaging heavy cavalry

[Urselius]

The Icelander Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga describes the god Odin and the Æsir, as having been real people who emigrated from the area around the river Don to Scandinavia at the time of the Roman imperial expansion. Apparently the locals were so impressed with the newcomers that they worshipped them as gods. Certainly Odin seems to have displaced the god Tiw, whose name is cognate with Zeus and 'Jiu' of Jupiter, as the great sky god at a fairly late date.