It's been a long time (a bit over a decade, I think?) since I've read the Eddas, but I seem to recall that Snorri Sturluson considered Asgard to be Troy. I don't take the notion that any of this stuff is historical very seriously, but on the philosophical side, at least, the symbolic equivalences are certainly plausible and have a lot to recommend them.
I'm gonna need to sit myself down and re-read the Gylfaginning one of these days, but I was wondering if you knew of anyone else who's dug into the matter at all? I'm very ignorant of whether the heathen community at large has any interest in the notion.
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not not a heathentrying to sort out Diodoros's suggestion that maybe I am and I just don't know it.It's been a long time (a bit over a decade, I think?) since I've read the Eddas, but I seem to recall that Snorri Sturluson considered Asgard to be Troy. I don't take the notion that any of this stuff is historical very seriously, but on the philosophical side, at least, the symbolic equivalences are certainly plausible and have a lot to recommend them.
I'm gonna need to sit myself down and re-read the Gylfaginning one of these days, but I was wondering if you knew of anyone else who's dug into the matter at all? I'm very ignorant of whether the heathen community at large has any interest in the notion.