Were Ulysses\' adventures along the baltic coasts?

[Robert Vermaat]

Goffredo, if I was the one who stated this, I'll try and explain. It is just BECAUSE history is as week a medium as you so correctly say it is, that we can't trust these apparently very old legends. You say the tale got 'frozen', but how can you possibly prove that? When we have a written version of any legend, it only goes back as far as that, and no-one, barring other, varying, written version, can tell if this version was the correct one, or one already hopelessly altered in writing, or in the oral stage before that. You and others have apparently the idea that we can look back millenia in time through these stories, most of which have indeed been commited to writing only during Roman times, or much later.<br>
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So, legends are not older than a 1000 years, but their first known versions are. No-one can look back beyond that without hypothesizing.<br>
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Troy, mayhave been a complete invention, although I do not believe that (I emphasise the word 'believe').<br>
The Old Testament? Stoy does not agree with archeology at many point, but does at others - you tell me!<br>
The Longobards? Of course they are historical.<br>
Romulus and Remus? Clear foundation legend, but maybe the persons lived.<br>
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IMHO, of course.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Robert<br>
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