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| | ASGAARD AND OTHER MYTHICAL HOMELANDS: medievalhistory.net (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | "The Budini, a numerous and powerful nation, all have markedly blue-grey eyes and red hair; there is a town in their territory called Gelonus, all built of wood, both dwelling-houses and temples, with a high wooden wall round it, thirty furlongs each way. |
 | | There are temples here in honour of Greek gods, adorned after the Greek manner with statues, altars, and shrines - though all constructed of wood; a triennial festival, with the appropriate revelry, is held in honour of Dionysus... |
 | | As there were no blue-eyed, red haired people living in Scythia by the time of Roman dominance, these people must have resettled in the North. |
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