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Sigge “Odin” Fridulfsson of Asgard (50 BC – 30 AD) Supreme Ruler of Scythians, 1st King of Scandinavia

Post author By Steven Wood Collins
Post date November 15, 2021
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Rightly sensing the Roman army’s imminent advance into his homeland, his father, Fridulf, Supreme Leader of Scythia, ordered Sigge to lead a contingent of his army to Scandanavia. Preferring the prospect of adventure and freedom to the possibility of Roman domination, he readily complied. A Roman inscription marker at Gobustan indicates the Roman occupation of the region around 97 AD or before.

I think that Fridulf was ahead of his time, so to speak, and the Roman Legion didn’t march through Asgard for several decades after Sigge set out for Scandanavia, conquering all peoples they encountered along the way. Well, perhaps he knew his gifted and footloose son had another destiny that he would not realize if he remained in the doomed Asgard, and sent him toward a new Asgard of his own making. A wise decision to say the least as Asgard today is little known, and Sigge’s awesome legacy as the father of Scandanavia and Germany is one of the prodigious wonders of the modern world.

After conquering Scandanavia, he adopted Odin as his name, mainly to command respect and honor from his subjects as their liege lord and king (who probably dared not to put up a fight about it, maybe because he was known as having hundreds of other names, a few of which were less than flattering in nature) as the high priest of his religion. So, Odin was a secular king in title as well as the creator-god in spirit.

The Scythians possessed advanced technological know-how that must have seemed magical to the locals. Most of the wonderment must have stemmed from their iron-age weaponry and battle armour. They and their Greek Trojan cousins were the first ethnic group in human history to forage steel. They also introduced the Rune alphabet (possibly Sigge’s invention) to Scandanavia as well as the art of stone carving.

Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl (1914 – 2002) claimed he and his countrymen descended from Sigge and his seafaring Azerbaijani (derived from Æsir, the premiere pantheon of Norse gods) cousins. In 1947, he first demonstrated that reed rafts were capable of sea voyages over great distances when he sailed his Kon-Tiki reed raft 5,000 miles from South America to the Tuomatu Islands. On a visit to Gobustan to study ancient cave rock carvings in 1981, he noticed the depiction of several types of sailing vessels (one of which bears a striking resemblance to Middle Age Viking sailing ships). This finding lent considerable credence to his belief that his ancestors hailed from Azerbaijan and sailed the seas and oceans, perhaps as far west as Scandanavia and as far east as the South China Sea well before the birth of Christ. By extension of Thor’s central thesis, Sigge may well have conquered his distant, but closely-related Y-DNA cousins who inhabited Scandanavia centuries before he and his invasion force arrived.

In conducting my research on my genealogical relationship with Sigge, I made the amazing discovery that three of his forebears (namely, Finn, Flocwald, and Godwulf) all died in the Spice Islands (Ad, Maluku, Indonesia). They were born in Asgard..

Later in life, the wizard Odin was quite a peripatetic, both in the literal and figurative sense. Stories of the era abound of his magical encounters with mere mortals as he wandered through his realm costumed as one of them. J.R.R. Tolkien based the character Gandalf on Odin’s elder life.

My genealogical research indicates the their fount of the YDNA mutation, which occurred over 10,000 years ago, eventually emerged from the northern Black Sea region as descendants of Scythian culture their forebears first developed well over 5,000 years ago. One of their descendants, Odin, was rather a late-comer as a conqueror of Scandinavia and beyond in Europe and the British Isles, as his descendants proved worthy of accomplishment, but his Scythian cousins who came before, such as the Milesians of Ireland, were every bit as effective in successfully planting their own version of their YDNA haplogroup elsewhere.

Odin-Wotan is universally ascribed as the eponym of the Wednesday. It appears his father, Fridfulf, can be considered as the eponym of Friday, two days later. Thursday finds it’s Old English and Middle English roots in the derivation of “Thor’s Day”.

By Steven Wood Collins

I spent most of my life unaware of my ancestral heritage. Sure, I knew of the personal history of my more immediate relatives; but beyond that, I never had any inkling as to my ancestral heritage. Then one day many years ago my sister said to me, “I sometimes wonder about our family background.” And so my quest to discover our genealogical roots commenced.

I started building my family tree with the very basic relationships, going back in time from my grandparents, one ancestor at a time. That initial effort proved to be the hardest part of the pursuit, mainly due to my lack of expertise as a novice genealogical researcher. As I gained familiarity with the databases and how to efficiently mine them, my progress gained ever-increasing momentum. Today, The Patricians! tree (Ancestry.com) contains nearly 120,000 individuals, stretching over 135 generations, 5,800 of which are my direct ancestors in a genealogical sense.

During this trek back in time, I encountered fascinating figures in both history and obscurity. This blog contains many stories about their genealogical relationship to me (and many of you). By far and away, as a student of history, the historically obscure individuals are of particular interest to me. I cite Baron “Blue Beard” Montmorency-Laval de Rais (1405 – 1440) as an example of a historically maligned personage whose real contribution to history, as both a playwright and hero of France, has yet to be properly recognized. Another example is Earl Edward de Vere (1550 – 1604), who’s yet to gain widespread recognition as the actual author of the body of literary work wrongly ascribed to William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616).

My life-long interest in international economics and finance continues unabated. I primarily demonstrate this professional involvement as a contributor to the Long Room, the members-only international finance professionals' forum hosted by the Financial Times of London.

I'm an avid recreational scuba diver who enjoys traveling to exotic dive sites. My love of the sea and marine life gives me an unbounded appreciation and support of “green” issues, especially those devoted to the conservation of endangered species and coral reefs.

He continually posts results of his personal genealogical research to his Goodreads Authors Blog. Entitled The Patricians - The Ancestral Heritage of Steven Wood Collins, the work represents thousand of hours of his research efforts and related commentary.

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