Begin with the source.
Separate what a text or object actually supplies from the historical explanation we propose. Retain editions, translations and dates so readers can check the argument.
ABOUT WODENSMAN
An investigation
that can change its mind.
WodensMan is the research and media project of Christopher T. Knight, independent researcher and author of The Historical Odin: Myth or Memory?.
Test convergence.
Several lines of evidence help only when they are sufficiently independent. Repetition of one claim across later sources is not automatically independent confirmation.
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- Observation
- The reading, object, location or documented pattern under consideration.
- Interpretation
- The project’s proposed historical meaning. This remains an argument to test.
- Limitation
- The strongest uncertainty or alternative that the evidence cannot resolve alone.
- Research lead
- A question whose underlying attestation still needs tracing. It is visibly labelled before it is used as support.
What would weaken the case?
Convincing evidence that an anchor is inauthentic; a chronology that cannot accommodate the proposed connections; an unsupported linguistic link; or a better explanation showing the apparent convergence is dependent or coincidental.
Late survival does not necessarily mean late invention. Equally, it does not establish early origin. Genetics cannot prove mythology. These limits apply throughout the investigation.