Talk:The Legend of Diyes

Is this topic a real thing?
I mean "real" in the sense of "people have at some point in the past actually claimed this happened", not in the sense "this happened". As far as I can tell from this very vague and short page, it's claiming that an ancient Thracian tribe, the Dii, migrated from Thrace to... Scandanavia, maybe? Germany? I dunno; it just says "the country of Odin", and the "Odin" there is apparently intended as being the Norse god, not some ancient land coincidentally also called "Odin".

The four references that this page gives are one "online research guide" apparently about Tacitus, one for Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War", and two in Russian (or something). The article gives no indication as to how any of these relate to the article's claims. I see that Tacitus mentioned the Dii at least once (Annals III), but without much detail, and I don't see anything about them migrating anywhere, let alone to "the country of Odin". Thucydides? I gotta admit I seriously doubt that Thucydides said that the Dii migrated to "the country of Odin". Probably both of these references were just intended to show the Diis existed, not really to show anything about the actual claims of this article. The Russian (or whatever) ones? I dunno, I don't speak Russian (or whatever).

The history of this page is a mess; the first version has a lot more words, but it's largely incomprehensible to me (in fact a Wikipedian later marked it with an "incoherent" template). Most of the subsequent edits are vandalism, reversions of vandalism, or things like changing "about" to "of" or "Diy" to "Dii". So looking through those old edits really gave me no further clue.

The "what links here" articles are mostly to user talk pages, wherein bots informed vandals that their changes to this page have been reverted, or other bots decided to tell non-vandals that the article exists and maybe they would like editing it. Other than stuff like that, and the link from the article's own talk page, there's one "real" link, that being from the Dii page itself. That page contains this information about the Legend of Diyes: "The Legend of Diyes is an interesting legend about the Dii." That's it. That's the whole thing.

The stuff I can find about "the Legend of Diyes" on the web (outside of Wikipedia) is pretty clearly just copies of stuff from this page (or from the same ultimate source).

So... really? --Rwv37 (talk) 21:58, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

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