Re: The Joy of *small* business

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:32:03 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   I think that as the weather improved a lot of people went walkabout -
   resulting in a many odd mixtures that eventually blended into a
   'normal'.

There definitely was a lot of movement well before the Völkerwanderung.
There are several theories about where the Indo-Europeans arose.
Genetically the Y haplogroup R1b was predominate and still is most common
in western Europe.  They were pastoralists and practiced agriculture.

They are supposed to have shown up around 5000 years BP. The I1 story has
changed in the last few years and is still a bit of a mystery although the
assumption is they were hunter-gatherers.

https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/the-origin-of-haplogroup-i1-
m253.42710/

I wonder how much of th interaction is reflected in the Edda literature
about a war between the Aesir and Vanir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyr

Freyr was associated with peace, tranquility, and farming. Wotan had many
names but 'Farmer John' wasn't one of them.