160 - Richard Rohlin - A Universal History
The Symbolic World
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What's the Story of the Scandinavian Peoples?
There's actually a bunch of really wild medieval legends about a, a fourth son of Noah who was born on the arc. There's some in here and sometimes like it's a pretty monstrous thing. That's part of, that's part of the story of the Scandinavian peoples, especially as they first interact with the Roman world. Most of the people who they believe to be descended from Japheth are speakers of Indo-European languages. They get it more right than they get it wrong because what they basically end up doing is mapping the three sons of, of, of Noah to the three major linguistic groups of the ancient world. It's almost perfect actually.
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