A Panel on “The Nordic origins of the Homeric Poems” 2017

The real setting of the Iliad and Odyssey can be identified not as the Mediterranean Sea, where it proves to be undermined by many incongruities, but rather in the north of Europe. The sagas that originated the two poems came from the Baltic regions, where the Bronze Age flourished in the 2nd millennium B.C. and where many Homeric places, such as Troy and Ithaca, can still be identified today.