Editing Forseti (section)

==Name==
Grimm took ''Forseti'', "''praeses, princeps''", to be the older form of the name, first postulating the [[Old High German]] equivalent ''*forasizo'' (cf. modern German ''Vorsitzender'' "one who presides", Old English ''fore-sittan'' 'to preside').<ref>Grimm, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q1gOAAAAYAAJ&dq=Grimm+Stallybrass+Teutonic+Mythology+Fossite&pg=PA231 p. 231].</ref> but later preferring a derivation from ''fors'', a "whirling stream" or "cataract", connected to the spring and the god's veneration by seagoing peoples.<ref>Grimm, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CllJAAAAMAAJ&dq=Grimm+Stallybrass+Teutonic+Mythology+%22whirling+stream%22&pg=PA232 p. 232, note 2]; volume 4 (Supplement, 1883) [https://books.google.com/books?id=JmNJAAAAMAAJ&dq=Grimm+Stallybrass+Teutonic+Mythology+cataract&pg=PA1360 p. 1360].</ref> It is plausible that ''Fosite'' is the older name and ''Forseti'' a [[folk etymology]].<ref>[[Jan de Vries (linguist)|Jan de Vries]], ''Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte'', volume 2, 2nd ed. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1957, repr. 1970, p. 283 {{in lang|de}}.</ref> According to the German [[philologist]] Hans Kuhn the Germanic form Fosite is linguistically identical to Greek ''[[Poseidon]]'', hence the original name may have been introduced before the [[Proto-Germanic]] [[sound change]], possibly via Greek sailors purchasing [[amber]] (cf. ''Phol'' as a cognate of ''[[Baldr#Merseburg Incantation|Baldr]]'').<ref>Hans Kuhn, ''Kleine Schriften IV: Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1968-1976'', ed. D. Hofmann, Berlin/New York 1978, p. 186-188.</ref><ref>Ludwig Rübekeil, "Scandinavia in the Light of Ancient Tradition", translated by James E. Cohen, in ''The Nordic Languages'', ed. Oscar Bandle et al., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York. 2002. p. 598.</ref> The etymologist Wolfgang Laur, is highly critical, however, as the names of Germanic gods are composed almost exclusively of Germanic components. According to Laur, the name Forseti remains largely unexplained.<ref>Wolfgang Laur, ''Germanische Heiligtümer und Religion im Spiegel der Ortsnamen: Schleswig-Holstein, nördliches Niedersachsen und Dänemark'', Neumünster 2001, p. 84.</ref>