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From: Stewart Baldwin< >
Subject: Re: Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] for soc.genealogy.medieval and GEN-MEDIEVAL
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:50:02 GMT


(RAY Montgomer) wrote:

>Stewart
>My very strong vote is that Woden stays!!!!!
>I think he is Real. There are too many sagas, ectra, with intricate
>details concerning him that had to come from some where. and i dont think
>it- they are immaginary.
>Very Very sincerley
>RAY

I think you completely missed my point when I complained about the
sentence having Odin/Woden in the FAQ. The FAQ is supposed be
NEUTRAL on issues that would be considered contraversial. Yet, as it
is, the FAQ makes a statement which clearly supports one side of the
issue, to the exclusion of the other opinion (i.e., that Odin/Woden is
completely mythical), which by the way, is by far the majority opinion
in the scholarly literature.

Why should the FAQ present only the minority opinion?

Stewart Baldwin

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