Odin in Daukantas’s Pantheon
Journal: Senoji Lietuvos literatūra
Year: 2024

The article discusses the idea, proposed by Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), that Odin was the second moderniser of the Lithuanian/Baltic society of the second century BC. The article first examines Daukantas’s interest in Odin’s history and introduces Daukantas’s extracts from various sources. Daukantas outlined the information about archaeological findings near the Black Sea, which are evidence of previous contacts of local inhabitants, in particular from Crimea, with the peoples on the Baltic c