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I would.
It refers to what you said on myths and storytellers, if that wasn't obvious. That's all i'm saying,
You're saying storytellers don't adapt their stories to their audience? Or that such adaptation doesn't change the content of the stories? Our sources for Germanic myths are a few fragments from Tacitus and other Romans, but no complete myth until the 10th century when they were written down by Christians. Some of these accounts make the gods into mortal heroes, turning myth into legend. The Nibelungenlied and the Edda were written down only in the 13th century. Beowulf is an interesting early source, 8th to 10th century and clearly in a pagan setting, but its story is set in the 6th century. So the only sources dealing directly with the time period we're talking about are the Romans, the next earliest source explicitly doesn't talk about that period and the next ones are more than 1000 years later and written down by people living in a different, Christian society.
I didn't want to respond, but i will, as i think i found a short way to do so.
Replace "evidence" with "telling absolute truth" and we agree, but "evidence" it can be, but doesn't have to.
That's now really everything i am willing to add or rather comment as feedback on my rating and to this thread.
Thanks, I get your point now. While I would be very careful interpreting such evidence, there is indeed a chance that some elements of the tale survived the various changes.
