03 April 2012

Forum # 20 (feb. 10 - 29, 2012)

Posted 10 February 2012 - 10:33 AM
Knul, on 09 February 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:
The books for his library have initially been bought by his compagnon Stadermann in Amsterdam and were later advised by Ottema.

There is no proof for any contact between Over de Linden and Stadermann, other than in the year they were neighbors (1845).

### Posted 11 February 2012 - 08:50 AM
Knul, on 11 February 2012 - 01:23 AM, said:
They were not just neighbours, but also colleagues and friends.

I know they were neighbors in 1845 only, according to L.F. Over de Linden.
Three questions:
Do you know from when till when Stadermann worked for the Marine in Den Helder?
Do you have any indication that they were 'friends', other than the trip to Enkhuizen they would have made together in 1845?
Have you read the letters between H.A. Stadermann and A. Heyting (1917-1934)?

### Posted 12 February 2012 - 09:02 AM
Otharus, on 11 February 2012 - 08:50 AM, said:
Three questions:

Your answer was:
"Just read the reports of one of his colleagues and of Berk. s. http://rodinbook.nl/olbbrieven.html. ref: Voorgeschiedenis. Zie ook: http://www.dbnl.org/...801_01_0001.php"

From these links I conclude that:
1. No, you don't know the time frame in which Stadermann worked for the Royal Marine in Den Helder.
2. The only 'information' about the supposed friendship between Stadermann and Over de Linden is speculation by others.
3. No you have not read any letters from Stadermann's son.

### Posted 12 February 2012 - 06:25 PM
Letter from Cornelis Over de Linden to Dr. Ottema, dated Den Helder 11-6-1872 (translation, original at Tresoar, Ljouwert).

"Honorable and very learned Sir!

A request for revision, says W. de L. in Spectator magazine of 21 October 1871 # 42, the same I ask you, and all who reject the so-called 'RUN-SKRIFT' as of younger date.

In your translation I read: "Oh dear, never let the eyes of a monk gaze upon this script, they speak sweet words, but... etc."

From this fear of monks I dare conclude, that they had already captured many of our old manuscripts. I also dare believe dat the Over de Lindens have not been the only ones, who possessed the book of Adela Follistar. When I follow the history of the manuscript, I dare assume that the Romans, the Phoenicians, the Greeks and all Mediterranean peoples learned the letter-script from us.

Not copied from the geometric lines of the Jol, but from less neatly produced Frisian manuscripts.

In the times when I tortured myself trying to read the handwriting, someone said to me that they might be Phoenician letters. So I looked for a book about the Phoenician language and found one with the title: "Paläographische Studien über phönizische und punische Schrift - Herausgegeben von D. Wilhelm Gesenius. Mit 6 lithographirten tafelen. Leipzig 1835."

The letters in that book are very different, but many of them are similar to the STAND and the RUN-SKRIFT as presented in the manuscript. Many or most of the prints of tokens with letters, depict women's heads, that reminded me of the Frisian honorary Mothers. The author says that every Phoenician colony had its own letter-script. But I could not follow him, because he compared the letters with Hebrew ones, which I don't know.

If my notion is right, we have been the lettergivers of all Mediterranean peoples. As the Nordic peoples always have been - and still are - the real sea dogs, the French with all their elevated theories not excluded, they were also most in need of letters and ciphers.
That the monks, who have invented their own letter-script, stifled ours to make it unreadable, lies in their nature. But who knows how many Copies of the book of Adela's Folstar remain here and elsewhere with kings or in Rome. Now that more than a thousand years have passed, they may have introduced the walking script as capitals, because they are similar to our capitals.

If you are so weak as to reject the walking script, out of fear for some barkers, than it is as if you want to duel with the sheath, while passing the sword to them.

For in the manuscript it says: "When Fàsta was Mother of honor, she made the running or walking script out of it. The Witking, that is seaking Godfried... etc." So, if the runscript was added more recently, then the above fragment was also added, and then anything can have been added. So I keep protesting against the mutilation.
[...]

After affable greetings, also to your Niece,
Yours,
C. Over de Linden"

### Posted 13 February 2012 - 05:34 PM
Dr. Ottema to L.F. Over de Linden (translated from letter in Dutch, dated 17-3-1876, from Tresoar collection):

Dear Sir!

I will answer both your questions shortly.
First, where does the story (or statement) come from, that we (the Western peoples) would have borrowed our ciphers from the Arabs?


It is not a story, and not based on any historical fact, but a wild guess, that has been parroted by the gullible crowds for three centuries now. Much was written about that. When scholars asked the question, where our ciphers had originated, they tacitly assumed, that they had to come from abroad; because it was out of the question that the peoples of Middle and Western Europe had invented anything by themselves. Therefore one of them guessed that the Hebrews, another that the Phoenicians, and yet another that the Egyptians would be the inventors of our ciphers. Each argued his opinion with erudition. The ones who claimed it had been the Arabs were most successful, because the latter were known to use a decimal system. But one forgot, that if we had learned our ciphers from the Arabs, we would also have adopted the shape of those Arabic ciphers. And that's how this guess was accepted as a prevailing truth.


Concerning your other question, what proof there is for my statement, that the figures in the Alhambra decorations were derived from the Fryan script, I can only say this. There is no positive evidence, only a negative one. Namely, they could not have been derived from anything else. 


Apparently they are not random phantasy shapes, but deliberate imitations of figures that one has seen somewhere. And where else can they have seen them than in the shapes of the western ciphers?
Who finds this statement somewhat bold, may answer the question differently, and show where else these figures were found.


It would please me to learn from you what rev. Grottendiek will reveal of his research. But always remember, that no-one can measure the spirit of the book, who does not completely understand the language, and can observe and consider all nuances in variety of language form, spelling, and style in all parts that are collected in the book.

With kind greetings


### Posted 13 February 2012 - 10:16 PM
(To Abramelin:) Compliments, you have been creative.
It nicely shows that the Alhambra version is more complex than the Jol version.
In evolution, complexity increases.
Therefore, if one has evolved out of the other, it makes more sense (IMO) that the Alhambra one was inspired by the Jol-one, and not the other way around.
(Yes, I have thought about the digital 8, out of which all numbers can be made as well, and which is less complex than the Jol, but not all letters can be made out of it, and it's not in a circle.)

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 08:51 AM
Knul, on 13 February 2012 - 09:30 PM, said:
Westland is called former, because it has been lost to the Gols and Franks. The Westland you have in mind stayed Frisian.

I agree with Knul.
In the fragment, the author explains how big their territory once was (before the bad times came).
If the Frisian Middelsea was meant (as Abe insists), Westergo and Westfriesland would not have been part of the original territory.
Westfriesland was not lost until the late 13th century AD.

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 09:07 AM
Abramelin, on 13 February 2012 - 10:49 PM, said:
These guys were at their best many ages ago, and it is because of them - and no one else - that we now know about the classics... and chemistry... and astronomy....and ancient Egypt, and mathematics ... and... and.. and.

I can imagine that before the big deforestation of Holland (Holt-, Holz-, Houtland), the Peoples here must have been artists with oak wood; buildings, ships, sculptures, etc. (some left from theMiddle Ages).
Nothing material left of those Golden (Wooden) ages BC.

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 10:41 AM
Knul said:
"The so called Arab ciphers came into use during the reign of Charles the Great (ca. 800).
Before the Roman ciphers were used."


We don't know when the so-called Arab ciphers came into use, only what is the oldest known (accepted) document that was saved in which they were used.
This is a common misunderstanding in this thread; that the oldest known source of something defines the age of that something.
Example: The oldest known mention of an "uilenbord" in the archives is from 1669. That does not mean they were invented in that year.


### Posted 14 February 2012 - 11:23 AM
Fragment of letter from Dr. Ottema to L.F. Over de Linden, dated 3-3-1877 (translation).

About a letter he had received from E. Leyte, editor of the German Correspondent in Baltimore, dated 6-2-1877.

The author informed me that in the wide mouth of the Amazon River, a group of islands is located, known as 'Inkas Islands', and inhabited to date by a human race with blue eyes and blond hair.

This information was of great value to me, because until now I had found nothing, that I could use to determine with some probability, a spot where Inka might have landed. I always expected that he would have ended up somewhere at the north-coast of Brasil, but now it has become clear to me, that the name of these islands keep a memory to Inka, and prove that he sailed and settled there with his fleet. The descendants of this colony of Frisians and Fins (specially the latter) will have moved land-inwards along the coasts of the Amazon River during many centuries, until they arrived at the westcoast of America, where they were found back in Chile and Peru, 3500 years later.

Isn't it remarkable that someone in Baltimore is motivated to send me a message that unexpectedly explains such a great mystery?

And isn't it remarkable as well that on those Inka Islands the Frisian type was preserved, and in Peru and Chile the Finnish type is found?


In a quick search, I could not find anything about those "Inka Islands".
If it's true, it would be quite interesting.

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 11:52 AM
Abramelin, on 14 February 2012 - 11:37 AM, said:
I have shown you in this thread an old source with a legend that says it were Frisians who first discovered South America and made a colony there (Chile).

But what about "Inka Islands" in the mouth of Amazon River, with a blue eyed tribe, that would have been known in the late 18-seventies?

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 11:58 AM
Abramelin, on 14 February 2012 - 11:39 AM, said:
The have discoverd remnants of wooden ships, houses and artifacts dating from many thousands of years ago. I have posted about those too.

That's only a fragment of what once existed.
99.99% or more will have been burnt or rotten away, specially in our cold and wet climate.
Even more so for our ancient writing materials (felt and pomp-leaves?).

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 12:08 PM
Abramelin, on 14 February 2012 - 12:03 PM, said:
And what about those citadels made of bricks and stone? These must have been all over Europe too?

Who says they were made of bricks and stone?
They tend to be recycled anyway.
Even in the last few hundred years there have been palaces and castles of which no trace can be found now.

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 12:28 PM
[109/14] Apol-lánja's writings
BOPPA THÉRE RÉNA TWISK THET BERCHTA. THÉR HÀV IK MÁR.SÁTA SJAN.
THA MÁR.SÁTA THÀT SEND MÀNNISKA THÉR INVPPA MÁRA HÉMA.
HJARA HUSA SEND VP PÀLUM BUWAD.
THÀT IS VRET WILDE KWIK ÀND BOSE MÀNNISKA.
THÉR SEND WOLVA BÁRA ÀND SWÁRTE GRISLIKA LÁWA.
ÀND HJA SEND THA SWETSAR JEFTHA PÀLENGGAR FON DA HÉINDE KRÉKA LANDER THÉRA KÀLTA FOLGAR ÀND THA VRWILDE RE. TWISKAR. ALLA GÍRICH NÉI RÁV ÀND BUT.


Fragment of letter from Dr. Ottema to L.F. Over de Linden, dated 16-3-1877 (translation).

But now for something of great importance. The black lions of Apollonia with the Marsaten have been found in Switzerland! They had always bothered me, although I for myself was confident, that they someday would show up; because the OLB does not lie!

Mr. J. Dirks namely informed the meeting that he had received a letter from Switzerland, from one of his prehistoric congress friends, about archaeological finds there. In a collection of bones of various species (including humans), the remains had been found of lions of a special species, that is now extinct. For us this is a colossal discovery!


### Posted 14 February 2012 - 01:02 PM
Abramelin, on 14 February 2012 - 12:40 PM, said:
?? How did they know those lions were black??

They didn't

Quote
And oh wow, Ottema finally found out there were indeed lions!

Footnote in his 1876 edition: "Leeuwen in Europa, Herodotus, VII, 125."

The archaeological find in Switzerland was still relevant.
In any case, those letters and fragments I posted recently may give us some insight into the minds of Ottema and the Over de Lindens.
It's the first time they are being published in English.

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 09:37 PM
Remarkable

As you make your bed, so must you lie in it
(Dutch: Wie zaait, zal oogsten)

1) Publication (1854) by J.G. Ottema about a publication (1854) from M. de Haan Hettema

Title:
Het meer Flevo en de Middelzee, of Blikken op de wartaal van Jhr. Mr. M. de Haan Hettema, in zijn geschrift: "Over de oudere geschiedenis van Friesland, met betrekking tot haren vroegeren en tegenwoordigen waterstaat"

(Lake Flevo and the Middle-Sea, or views upon the gibberish of M. de Haan Hettema, in his publication: "About the older history of Friesland, concerning her earlier and present waters")

2) Publication (1876) by J.B. Vinckers about the OLB (published 1872 and 1876 by J.G. Ottema)

Title:
De onechtheid van het Oera Linda-Bôk, aangetoond uit de wartaal waarin het is geschreven
(The inauthenticity of the OLB, indicated by the gibberish in which it was written)

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 10:04 PM
Fragment of letter from dr. Ottema to L.F. Over de Linden, dated 4-5-1877 (Tresoar collection; translated);

These days I realised something concerning Beckering Vinckers' accusation of a cunningly devised plan.

Your father did not have a plan to have the manuscript printed or made public. Under pressure of Verwijs, and when the content was still unknown to him, he had initially agreed, but when he got disappointed that Verwijs did not keep his promise
[to translate the manuscript], your father believed he was no longer bound to the permission he had given. Please read our letters from early 1871 (I think), and you will see how he resisted with tooth and nail against my plan for publication. Someone who wants to mislead the world would not do that, he would have grabbed the opportunity to carry out his deception with both hands. Kuipers [the printer] and I almost had to force him, and harsh words were exchanged.

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 11:24 PM
Abramelin, on 14 February 2012 - 10:15 PM, said:
I really have not the faintest clue to what you are hinting at.

I underlined the relevant part.
Ottema in 1854 used the term "wartaal" (gibberish, nonsense) in the title of his his article about de Haan Hettema's publication.
22 Years later Vinckers used that term (also in the title of an article) to burn down Ottema's love of his life, the OLB.
I don't think Ottema will have been the first, but appearantly, 19th century scholars used harsh terms to 'critisize' each others publications.

### Posted 14 February 2012 - 11:33 PM
Letter from dr. Ottema to L.F. Over de Linden, dated 19-5-1877 (Tresoar collection; translated);

Dear Sir!

The publication of your defence was well received. Whoever I asked thought the booklet was well written and had read it with pleasure. I sent a copy to Dr. Vitringa, trusting that he will mention it in the Deventer Newspaper, just like he discussed Beckering Vinckers' brochure.

As always busy researching, rethinking and collecting, I have elaborated a comment these days, that I will explain to you. Concerning the manuscript it is important, specially because Suffridus Petrus, de Scriptoribus Frisiae mentions in his introduction, that Friso left several writings, one of them a travel diary and biography; that he had written them in the Frisian language and with Greek characters, and that his successors wrote just like that, until the times that the Roman script became current in Germania.

He did not mention how or where he had learned about that (as was not his habit), but he can not have sucked that out of his thumb.

Something must have come to his knowledge of Frisian notes, from the times in which the Ovira Lindas wrote, and that travel diary (about the journey from India to Friesland) may be related to

Ljudgert's diary
.

Informations like this from Suffridus used to be considered as fabulations, but among those fabulations there may turn out to be more truth than was presumed. It is also acknowledged that Suffridus Petrus never lied, but that he would have copied from earlier sources.

Recieve this letter in good health and be friendly greeted.

P.S. I may have an immodest request: can I keep the copy of Volney, as a souvenir to your father?


### Posted 14 February 2012 - 11:46 PM
Abramelin, on 14 February 2012 - 11:38 PM, said:
You forgot this Suffridus Petrus was also known for his limitless imagination?

On the contrary, he was known to never lie, but some believe he copied fabulations.
I have a different feeling about this, but would indeed like to read a good translation of SP's work, before I have a judgement.

### Posted 16 February 2012 - 10:56 AM
That website vikinginfrance.com is surely interesting.
So the name Askar/ Ascon was still in use in the 9th century, I'm not that surprised.
Nice to see another alternative historian challenge the historical establishment with good arguments.

### Posted 16 February 2012 - 06:38 PM
"Minerva", or: "Minerva as personification of wisdom"
Hendrick Goltzius, 1611 - Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem

### Posted 16 February 2012 - 06:53 PM
Aphrodite is being surveyed by Paris, while Athena (the leftmost figure) and Hera stand by. El Juicio de Paris by Enrique Simonet, ca. 1904


### Posted 16 February 2012 - 07:05 PM
Urteil des Paris/ The Judgment of Paris
painting by Anton Raphael Mengs,
now in the Eremitage, St. Petersburg.
Oil on canvas, 226 x 295 cm.

Paris is awarding the apple to Aphrodite, while Athena makes a face.

Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779), ca. 1757

### Posted 18 February 2012 - 09:06 AM
Abramelin, on 16 February 2012 - 10:47 PM, said:
I really hope this thread never ends.
OK, sometimes we are not serious and fooling around a bit, but next day we 'sharpen our knives' and are back in business.
I can truelly honestly - and whatever adverb I should add to show my appreciation - say this: this gigantic thread has become something I really love.



### Posted 18 February 2012 - 09:39 AM
Abramelin, on 16 February 2012 - 11:19 PM, said:
I must be a descendant of those OLB guys who pronounced "Aldland" as "Atland", LOL.
That would be a thing from people living in The Hague.


New-Frisian also has the silent "l" in words like âld, kâld, sâlt, hold, silst, wolst.
Similarly a silent "f" in ôfsmite, "h" in hja, "r" in swart, "t" in kastke, "d" in wurdst.
(Source: Basiscursus Frysk, Afûk)

### Posted 18 February 2012 - 09:13 PM
Abramelin, on 18 February 2012 - 06:58 PM, said:
"Fin" appears to have been at one time a not uncommon name, whatever its etymology and that of "Fian" may be. [...] If Fin of the Fians, therefore, was a typical Fian, they were little people.

Interesting.
Fian = vijand (enemy)

Oudnederlands Woordenboek:

fīunt
Woordsoort: znw., m.
Modern lemma: VIJAND
Oudste attestatie: 901-1000
Frequentie: totaal: 26, appellatieven: 26
Etymologie: Cognaten: Oudfries fiānd, fiūnd.
Morfologie: ongeleed. Oorspronkelijk het tegenwoordig deelwoord van het ww. dat overeenkomt met Ohd. fīēn, Got. fijan 'haten', dat in het Ndl. niet meer bekend is.

http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=ONW&id=ID3660&lemmodern=vijand

### Posted 18 February 2012 - 09:35 PM
Van Gorp, on 18 February 2012 - 07:16 AM, said:
Menapii -> Me-Na-By -> Mee Nabij -> onze buren die met ons zijn -> Allied Neighbours (Doornik region)
Chauci -> Ga-Houck -> Hoekig gaan, binnenvallen -> Tsjokken (to shock, see Choques in Frans Vlaanderen) -> to be shocked

And to make the movie complete we have
Germani -> Geer-mannen -> Samenkomen (vergaren, vergaderen, guerre)
Alemani -> Hale-mannen -> Allemant is a village in Frans Vlaanderen
Gaulen -> Ga-Halen -> We gaan het halen, wat ze ons hebben afgepakt!


Thank you VG, good to see you're busy with some older pages of the thread.
OLB provides an etymology for GERMANI and ALEMANI, I wonder if CHAUCI can be related to this fragment:

"MEN KAVCH IS ÁK WAN FRYAS ÀND MOT KÁP WÉSA" (p.146).

Gaules are called GOLA in OLB, but the meaning is not clear.
It is suggested that was the name of the sent priests from Sion. (p.60).

### Posted 18 February 2012 - 09:52 PM
Abramelin, on 18 February 2012 - 11:22 AM, said:
And then there are those 2 letters, -W- and -GS- , that are left out of the Yule wheel table on page 46 of the manuscript.

Although usually written as if it is one letter, I think W was officially seen as double V. COdL also explains this in one of his diaries (things he had learnt from his father, appearantly), and in

English the letter is also called double-U.
Why GS (or Gz) is missing, I don't know. Maybe the letter was 'modern' and not official.

### Posted 18 February 2012 - 09:59 PM
Abramelin, on 18 February 2012 - 03:25 PM, said:
I have been very busy with ancient North-Frisian legends I found a 19th century online account of. It was copied with OCR (Optical Character Reading) and thus contained a multitude of errors.
The legend (or the interpretation thereof) talks about what can only be Three Goddesses (but no names), a supreme spirit called The Old One, or "Uald", and some 'lost race'.


This surely sounds interesting, but what is said about the source of this info?

### Posted 19 February 2012 - 11:16 AM
Otharus, on 18 February 2012 - 09:35 PM, said:
Gaules are called GOLA in OLB, but the meaning is not clear.
It is suggested that was the name of the sent priests from Sion. (p.60).


GOLA, Sidon priests (OLB) Golem (Jewish folklore)

In Jewish folklore, a golem (ɡoʊləm/ goh-ləm; Hebrew: גולם‎) is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing. [...] The word golem occurs once in the Bible in Psalm 139:16, which uses the word גלמי, meaning "my unshaped form". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem

Dutch Wiki (translated):
"Golem (Jewish legend)" was an anthropomorphic figure made of clay and animated by a rabbi [priest].
The word golem is probably derived from the Hebrew word 'gelem'(גלם), which means raw material.



OLB, translation Sandbach p.139:
"Among Finda's people there are false teachers, who, by their over-inventiveness, have become so wicked that they make themselves and their adherents believe that they are the best part of Wr-alda, that their spirit is the best part of Wr-alda's spirit, and that Wr-alda can only think by the help of their brains. That every creature is a part of Wr-alda's eternal being, that they have stolen from us; but their false reasoning and ungovernable pride have brought them on the road to ruin. If their spirit was Wr-alda's spirit, then Wr-alda would be very stupid, instead of being sensible and wise; for their spirit labours to create beautiful statues, which they afterwards worship."

### Posted 19 February 2012 - 12:33 PM
Abramelin, on 19 February 2012 - 12:29 PM, said:
The word "GOLA" dates from about the 6th century BC, while "GOLEM" is from medieval times, but anyway, centuries more recent then GOLA.

The oldest sources for the word "golem" may be from medieval times, but the folklore may have been much older. Anyway, a relationship with "GOLA" (as used in OLB) makes sense.

### Alewyn Raubenheimer posted 19 February 2012 - 01:36 PM
Otharus, on 18 February 2012 - 09:35 PM, said:
Gaules are called GOLA in OLB, but the meaning is not clear.
It is suggested that was the name of the sent priests from Sion. (p.60).


Some thoughts on the Gola from Sidon in Phoenicia:

OLB: The book of Adela’s followers (Chapter 25):

The Gola, as the missionary priests from Sidon were called, had noticed that the land there (Southern France) was sparsely populated and far from the Mother. In order to make themselves look good, they had themselves called in our language “truth devotees” (trowe widena); but they had better have been called “truth avoiders” (trowe wendena) or in short, “Triuwenden,” as our seafaring people afterwards called them.

Survivors of the Great Tsunami (Second Edition), Chapter 3, page 127:

The "Gola" called themselves "Trowe Widena" or "Treow-Wits" (Adherents or knowers of the Truth). The Frisians did not trust them at all and nicknamed them "Trowe Wendena" (truth avoiders) or "Truiwenden" in short.

The pagan religions from the East now had the Fryan Federation in a pincher with the Magy and his Magyarar priests in the north and north-east and the Treowit priests with their Gola missionaries in the south and west. The "Gola" later become known as the "Gauls" and the name "Treowits" evolved into "Druids" – the mysterious leaders in ancient Gaul that destroyed Fryan monotheism and held sway over the people in Gallic religion.

(Druids: From Treow+Wit, literally meaning Knower of the truth.
See: Treow (Old English, Anglo Saxon), Triuwi (Old Frisian) = Truth, and
Wit (Old English and Old Frisian) = Knowledge, understanding)

The Golan Heights, bordered by present-day Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, sounds suspiciously as though it may have been the origin of the ancient Gola priests (the Gola from Golan?) in nearby Sydon. "Golan" means "Captive" in Hebrew. The refuge town Golan is mentioned in the Bible in Deuteronomy 4:41-43 (RSV). If this supposition is correct, it would mean that the ancient Gauls had ties with the Golan Heights, which was annexed by Israel in 1981.


### Posted 19 February 2012 - 06:18 PM
Work in progress

JRTHA - OLB
earth - english
aarde - dutch
erde - german
ierde - frisian
jord - danish, swedish, norwegian
jörð - icelandic

JRTHA - OLB
erz - german
erts - dutch, frisian
ore - english
or - french
oro - italian, spanish
ouro - portuguese
aurum - latin
gold - english
goud - dutch, frisian
guld - danish, swedish
gull - norwegian, icelandic
GOLD - OLB
gelem (גלם) - (raw material) hebrew
GÉL - OLB
gult - icelandic
gul - danish, swedish, norwegian
geel - dutch
gelb - german
yellow - english
giallo - italian
giel - frisian
gol - frisian
gul - dutch
generous - english
geld - dutch, german (dutch pre-euro currency was "gulden")
jild - frisian
money - english
penge - danish
pengar - swedish
penger - norwegian
peningar - icelandic
monnaie/ argent - french
monnaie/ argent - french
penningen/ munten - dutch
münzen - german
mønter - danish
mynt - icelandic, swedish
mynter - norwegian
coins - english

argent - french
argento - italian
argentum - latin
argentino - spanish
silver - english, swedish
zilver - dutch
silber - german
sølv - danish, norwegian
silfur - icelandic
SULVER/ SILVER - OLB
sulver - frisian
zulver - westfrisian dialect

Gaul - english
Gaule - french
Gallia - latin, norwegian
Gallía - icelandic
Gallië - dutch
Gallien - german, danish, swedish

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Golan-mountains: ore- or gold-mining?

Golem/ golum: anthropomorph statue, idol (religious), made of (precious) raw material (gelem) or gold?
GOLA (OLB): priests from Sídon (near Golan-mountains) who introduced idol-worship in (nowaday) France?

Gauls, originally followers of the GOLA, later people from Gaul (Latin: Gallia).

Gollum (Tolkien)

### Posted 22 February 2012 - 05:03 PM
Criticism of religions in OLB
Worship of "BYLDON" (statues or images) - fragment 1 of 14

==>> see seperate post for all 14 fragments.

### Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:43 AM
Otharus, on 22 February 2012 - 05:03 PM, said:
Sandbach p.55

Comparing the translation of Sandbach (1876) to that of Raubenheimer (2011; 2nd edition, based on Sandbach), it can be concluded that Raubenheimer's version indeed seems to be an improvement.

However, in the following example, an important detail was missed, namely, that the Greek priests did not only erect statues of Minerva on their altars, but also that they sold statues of Minerva to the people; they commercialised her popularity!

Original fragment:

HJRA BYLDNESE STÀLDON HJA VPPA HJARA ÀLTÀRUM
JEFTHA HJA VRSELLADE.T ANDA DVMA MÀNNISKA.


Here's in italic Sandbach's and in normal script Raubenheimer's version:

one would have thought that they would have called all the people together
to drive us out of the land;
but no, in place of abusing her they went all about
from the heathenish [near] Krekaland to the Alps, proclaiming


Now everyone would think that they would have called everywhere on the people
to drive us all out of the land.
(But) no, instead of defaming her, they went everywhere,
also to Heinde Krekaland (Italy) right up to the Alps, proclaiming

that it had pleased the Almighty God
to send his clever [wise] daughter Min-erva, surnamed Nyhellenia,
over the sea in a cloud to give people good counsel,
and that all who listened to her should become rich and happy,
and in the end governors of all the kingdoms of the earth.


that it had pleased the highest god
to send his wise daughter Minerva, surnamed Nyhellenia,
amongst the people from over the sea on a cloud to give people good counsel,
and that all who listened to her should become rich and happy,
and in the end masters of all the kingdoms of the earth.

They erected statues to her on all their altars,
they announced and [or] sold [them] to the simple [dumb] people

[they announced] advice that she had never given,
and related miracles
that she had never performed.


They erected statues of her on their altars
to beguile the stupid people.

They attributed all kinds of advice to her that she had never given,
and told of miracles
that she had never performed.

They cunningly made themselves masters of our laws and customs,
and by craft and subtlety were able to explain and spread them around.


By cunning they made themselves masters of our laws and customs
and by fallacies they wished to explain everything and expand thereon.

They appointed priestesses under their own care,
who were apparently under the protection of Festa, our first Eeremoeder [Mother of Honour],
to watch over the holy lamp;


They appointed matrons under their own authority,
who were ostensibly under the authority of Fasta, our first Honorary Mother,
to watch over the sacred lamp.

but that lamp they lit themselves,
and instead of imbuing the priestesses with wisdom,
and then sending them
to watch the sick
and educate the young,
they made them stupid and ignorant,
and never allowed them to come out.


That lamp, however, they lit themselves
and instead of imbuing the priestesses with wisdom,
and then sending them
amongst the people to nurse the sick
and educate the young,
they made them stupid and ignorant,
and never allowed them to come out.

They were employed as advisers,
but the advice which seemed to come from them
was but the repetition of the behests of the priests.


They were also employed as advisers,
but they only pretended that the advice came from their mouths;
they were nothing more than the mouth pieces through which the priests announced their desires.

### Posted 23 February 2012 - 02:30 PM
Abramelin, on 23 February 2012 - 02:08 PM, said:
"I the LORD thy God am a jealous God" (King James Bible, Exodus 20:4,5).
"I am the LORD: that is my name" —Isaiah 42:8


Interestingly, nowhere in the OLB is it suggested that Wralda would speak to people in any way, it is not even suggested Wralda is anything humanlike.

It is typical for the sort of priests that were so much hated by the OLB-Fryans, to suggest they knew what "God" would think or say.

According to the OLB, Wralda is all (the whole), and humans are only a part of it.

### Posted 23 February 2012 - 02:53 PM
Abramelin, on 23 February 2012 - 02:39 PM, said:
Btw, these Fryans did indeed suggest they 'knew' what Wralda wanted and desired; it's all over the OLB.

You mean things like:

[012/10] Tex Frya's
5. FJUWER THINGA SEND TO JVWE NOT JÉVEN. MITH NÁMA. LÔFT. WÉTER. LÁND ÀND FJUR.
MEN WR.ALDA WIL THÉR ALLÉNA BÍSITTAR OF WÉSA.


It's merely suggested that Wralda controls the elements (air, water, land, fire).
Nothing like "I am your god, you have to serve and obey me."
Or can you give an example of what you mean?

### Posted 23 February 2012 - 06:03 PM
Abramelin, on 23 February 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:
I don't mean to say Wralda speaks anywhere, only that people assume that Wralda approves of this or doesn't appove of that, or that something is not according to the will of Wralda... as though they know what Wralda wants and so on.

Here's two OLB-fragments about Wralda.

The first initially did not make sense to me, and I didn't like it,
until I realised that those 'books' have to be ment metaphorically.

The second fragment makes a lot of sense and is one of my favorite fragments.
I think it pretty much sums up how the Fryans related themselves to Wralda.

1) From: Form-lére (Apol-lánja) p.[099/07]
WR.ALDA IS THJU WISHÉD
ÀND THA ÉWA THÉR HJU TAVLIKT HETH.
SEND THA BOKA WÉRUT WY LÉRA MÜGE.
ÀND THÉR NIS NÉNE WISHÉD TO FINDANDE
NER TO GARJANDE BUTA THAM.


2) From: Other part of Form-lér (Apol-lánja) p.[103/05]
WY FRYA.S BERN SEND FORSKINSLA THRVCH WR.ALDA.S LÉVA.
~
BY T.ANFANG MIN ÀND BLÁT.
THACH IMMER WÀRTHANDE ÀND NÁKANDE TO FVLKVMENLIKHÉD.
SVNDER Á SA GOD TO WRDA AS WR.ALDA SELVA.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
VSA GÁST NIS NAVT WR.ALDAS GÁST.
HI IS THÉRFON ALLÉNA EN AFSKINSLE.
~
THA WR.ALDA VS SKOP HETH ER VS IN THRVCH SINE WISHÉD.
BRYN. SINTÚGA. HÜGJA ÀND FÉLO GODA AINSKIPA LÉNAD.
HÍRMÉI MUGON WY SINA SKEPSELA ÀND SIN ÉWA BITRACHTA.
THÉROF MÜGON WY LÉRA ÀND THÉRVR MÜGON WY RÉDA.
ELLA ÀND ALLÉNA TO VS AIN HELD.
HÉDE WR.ALDA VS NÉNE SINNA JÉVEN
SA NE SKOLDE WY NARNE OF NÉTA
ÀND WY SKOLDE JETA REDDALASER AS EN SÉ.KWALE WÉSA.
THÉR FORTH DRYVEN WÀRTH.
THRVCH EBBE ÀND THRVCH FLOD.


### Posted 26 February 2012 - 08:12 AM
Abramelin, on 25 February 2012 - 11:51 PM, said:
I will bet there are Germans, Dutch, Scots, Brits, South Africans, Americans, and even Chinese who know what I am hinting at.

Let's be more specific, as the theological aspect of the dossier is actually interesting.
Jensma wrote his thesis for the theological faculty, and 3 'suspects' (not IMO) had studied theology: Haverschmidt, Verwijs and Halberstsma.
OLB was known in Germany as 'Himmler's Bible'.
People have suggested it was written to challenge the authority of the Bible, or to parody a 19th C. religious conflict.
So, what in your opinion are the most 'dangerous' fragments of the OLB?

### Posted 26 February 2012 - 02:40 PM
The Swedish word for "queen" - "drottning" - is related to the Oldfrisian word "drochten".
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drottning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druhtinaz

http://gtb.inl.nl/iW...modern=drochten
http://gtb.inl.nl/iW...lemmodern=drost ("drochsate")

In OLB, DROCHTNE or DROCHTEN means (false) gods or idols, but it is also used for Wralda (once, I think).
Our "gedrocht" (creature) and "bedrog" (fraud) may be derived from it as well, but it would be etymological 'cousins' (not 'ancestors') of drost (Swedish: "drots") and drottning (queen).

### Posted 26 February 2012 - 05:28 PM
Abramelin, on 26 February 2012 - 04:04 PM, said:
Well, this Meijer said we should not confuse these words, and that is what you are doing now it seems. The word that means lord/queen is not related to the word that means monstrosity/deceite.

No, I (initially) said nothing about gedrocht/ bedrog (but it's possible that they're related; I don't take 'official' etymologists too seriously).
In Oldfrisian, 'Drochten', (also) meant lord or god, as you could have seen in the links I added.

07 March 2012

Mothers


My mother's mother's mother and her mother:

standing, second from right:
Dina Maria Kistemaker (1881-1949) Oudesluis (NH), married 1902 to Klaas Paarlberg (1876-1972)
and
sitting, second from right:
Maartje Dekker (1847-1937) Schagen (NH), married 1868 to Klaas Kistemaker (1844-1932),
daughter of
Maartje Eriks (1813-1890) Schagen,
daughter of
Trijntje Floris Krabman (c.1787-1823) Schagen, Sint Maarten (NH),
daughter of
Maartje Jacobs Bras (c.1750-1800) Barsingerhorn, Kreil (NH)
daughter of
Trijn Jans Kuijper (c.1720-1766) Barsingerhorn, Kreil (NH)
daughter of
Maertje Jans Grin, (c.1690-1773) Barsingerhorn, Kreil (NH)

Maartje Bras was also the g-g-g-g-g-g-g-mother of Angelina Jolie (1975)

Angelina Jolie, born 1975 Los Angeles (California)
daughter of
Marcheline Bertrand, born 1950 Riverdale (Illinois)
daughter of
Lois June Gouwens, born 1928 Cook County (Illinois)
daughter of
Royal Gerrit Gouwens, born 1906 (Illinois)
son of
Annie Koedijker, born 1872 Sint Maarten (North-Holland)
daughter of
Grietje Delver, born c.1845 Zijpe (North-Holland)
daughter of
Trijntje Krabman, born c.1816 Sint Maarten (North-Holland)
daughter of
Dirk Krabman, born c.1785 Schagen (Westfriesland)
son of
Floris Krabman & Maartje Bras, Barsingerhorn (Westfriesland)

(source: http://www.wargs.com/other/voight.html)

09 February 2012

Forum # 19 (jan. 12 - feb. 9, 2012)

Posted 12 January 2012 - 12:18 AM
For the record, an essential translating error by Ottema (1876), copied by Sandbach (1876) and Raubenheimer (2011).

Context:
The Denamarka were occupied by the Magí (1602 after Aldland had sank) and the Mother didn't want them back, because the people there would already have been bastardised and wasted.


OLB, original manuscript [page 079/ line 18]
THJU MODER NILDET NAVT WÉR.HA

Dutch: Ottema p.111
De Moeder wilde het niet weren

English: Sandbach p.111; Raubenheimer (2nd edition, 2011) p.369
The mother would not prevent it

Correct translation:
Dutch: De Moeder wilde het niet weer (=terug) hebben
English: The Mother didn't want to have it back

### Posted 12 January 2012 - 09:48 AM
Knul, on 12 January 2012 - 07:16 AM, said:
I think Dutch weer (again, back) = whither. So the sentence would read: thju moder nildet wither ha.On the other hand Dutch weren = wera. Are there other possibilities ? I think of the meaning [ge]weren = ergens mee instemmen, akkoord gaan, Eng. to agree, German gewaehren, billigen, eiverstanden sein.

WITHER and WÉR are both used in that meaning.
In other fragments WÉR also means again/back:

[067/22]
WILST WÉR FRY WÉSA ÀND VNDER MINA RÉD ÀND HODA LÉVA. TJÀN UT THEN. WÉPNE SKILUN THI WRDA. ÀND IK SKIL WÁKA O.ER THI.
Do you want to be free again... (etc.)

[153/09]
THÉRVMBE NIL HI NÉNE MODER WÉR
Therefore he doesn't want to have a mother back/again

WÉR is a multifunctional word as it can also mean:
- "was"; the past tense singular of "to be" (german: war)
- the root of "to defend" (dutch: weer)
- where (dutch: waar)
- true (dutch: waar)
- in expression INA WÉR; busy (dutch: in de weer)

From the context, it's clear that in the fragment I posted, it means back/again twice.

### Posted 13 January 2012 - 04:48 PM
Knul, on 12 January 2012 - 10:55 PM, said:
I was bothered about the dot in the word wêr.ha as it should indicate a single word or verb, because this dot does not indicate the end of a sentence.
The verb could be wêr.ha = waarhebben, Eng. acknowledge, accept, agree with.
Otharus did not comment on this.
The matter has been discussed before and then I accepted Otharus view, but now there is some doubt.
In the example 153/09 lacks the dot.


Dots are not always used consequently in the text, in fact, the spelling has much variety anyway.

In my opinion, the dot here can mean two things:
- the copyist wrote the words too closely together and decided to seperate them with a dot
- the combination was indeed used as a seperable verb (samengesteld werkwoord); weer-hebben = weer-krijgen = terug-krijgen (like weer-spreken, weg-lopen etc.)

Anyway, from the context, it's quite obvious (imo) that the sentence says that the Mother didn't want to have the Denmarks back.

### Posted 17 January 2012 - 09:05 AM
It is an interesting observation that "again" and "against" are related to "wér", "weer", "with", "wither", "wether", "weder, "wieder" etc., but in the four fragments I gave , "WÉR" means "back" or "again".

Here they are for the last time.

[067/22]
WILST WÉR FRY WÉSA ÀND VNDER MINA RÉD ÀND HODA LÉVA. TJÀN UT THEN. WÉPNE SKILUN THI WRDA. ÀND IK SKIL WÁKA O.ER THI.
Do you want to be free again... (etc.)

[079/18]
THJU MODER NILDET NAVT WÉR.HA
The Mother didn't want to have it back

[079/19]
IK SJA NÉN FRÉSE AN SINA WÉPNE MEN WEL VMBE THA SKÉNLANDER WÉR TO NIMMANDE THRVCH DAM HJA BASTERED ÀND VRDÉREN SIND
I see no fear in his weapons, but in taking the Skénlander back, because they are bastardised and wasted.

[153/09]
THÉRVMBE NIL HI NÉNE MODER WÉR
Therefore he doesn't want to have a mother back

### Posted 17 January 2012 - 10:44 AM
Alewyn, on 13 July 2010 - 01:54 PM, said:
In my book I also came to the conclusion that "Phrygia" was most likely a derivative of "Frya" but I did not know about the Bruges and this Egyptian king.

Otharus, on 18 December 2010 - 07:28 AM, said:
Earlier in the OLB/Tsunami thread, it was suggested that the PHRYGIANS may have been the FRYAS of the OLB.

In this context, it's noteworthy that Lucius Apuleius (Metamorphoses, ca. 180 AD) calls them "PRIMIGENII",
translated as "first-born of mankind" by E.J. Kenney (1998).

PRIMIGENII PHRYGES PESSINVNTIAM DEVM MATREM

The Phrygians, first-born of mankind, call me the Pessinuntian Mother of the gods


It is significant that the term "frieze" (in architecture/ art) - in Dutch: "fries" - is accepted to be derived from "opus phrygium" (Phrygian work).

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/frieze
frieze
Pronunciation: /friːz/
noun
a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling:
the horsemen of the Parthenon frieze

figurative
the coastline is a frieze of cliffs
- a horizontal paper strip mounted on a wall to give an effect similar to that of a sculpted or painted frieze:
a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it
- Architecture the part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice.

Origin:
mid 16th century: from French frise, from medieval Latin frisium, variant of frigium, from Latin Phrygium (opus) '(work) of Phrygia'


### Posted 17 January 2012 - 10:50 AM
Abramelin, on 17 January 2012 - 10:15 AM, said:
Now, with too late you mean too young to be used for the OLB because the OLB uses a 4000 years old language.

If OLB is what it says it is, it's a 13th century copy of a 9th century copy of older original(s).
The first version would have been compiled in the 6th century BC.
That is ca. 2600 BP.
It is possible that the language had not changed much between 4200 BP and 2600 BP (as the Fryans liked to believe), but we can only guess if that is true.

### Posted 17 January 2012 - 03:19 PM
The Puzzler, on 17 January 2012 - 01:46 PM, said:
vispa-: "all".[49] (as in Avestan). The component appears in such words as vispafryā (Med. fem.) "dear to all", vispatarva- (med.) "vanquishing all", vispavada- (med. -op.) "leader of all", etc.

Aha, so "fryā" meant "dear to ..." in that word. Interesting.

### Posted 18 January 2012 - 10:46 AM
Knul, on 17 January 2012 - 09:21 PM, said:
Jesterdêi wêron-er mong jo tham allet folk to hâpa hropa wilde vmb tha âstlike stâta wither to hjara plyga to tvangande.
The tekst reads: to hare wopa.
Hare should be hjara
I would translate: tot hun wapenen, te wapen


In the transliteration by Ottema that you quoted, WOPA indeed was changed into HROPA. Ottema must have assumed a copyist error.
He was wrong. Hettema's dictionary has:

Wopa, woapje, alarm roepen, geschreeuw maken, noodschreijen. W.130.
English: call/ cry alarm

It is not clear if the word before WOPA is spelled HÁPE or HÁRE, but it must be HÁPE as that word is more often used (also as HÁPA) in a similar context.

First, the fragment under discussion, with various translations, then other relevant fragments to compare.

[003/20]
JESTERDÉI WÉRON.ER MONG JO THAM ALLET FOLK TO HÁPE WOPA WILDE VMB THA ÁSTLIKA STÁTA WITHER TO HJARA PLYGA TO TVANGANDE.
Yesterday there were among you that wanted to 'call all people to heaps' (gather and prepare them for battle), to force the eastern states (back) to their (old) habits.

[Ottema p.8]
Gisteren waren er onder u, die al het volk te hoop roepen wilden om de oostelijke Staten weder tot hare plicht te dwingen.

[Jensma p.77]
Gisteren waren er onder u, die al het volk te hoop wilden roepen om de oostelijke staten weer tot hun gewoonten te dwingen.

[Sandbach p.8]
Yesterday there were among you those who would have called the whole people together, to compel the eastern states to return to their duty.

- - - - - -
Other fragments with the word HÁPA/ HÁPE in a similar context:

[037/26]
NV SKOLDE ÀJDER WÁNA THÀT HJA VRAL.ET FOLK TO HÁPE HWOPN* HÉDE VMBE VS ALGADUR TO.T.LAND UT TO DRIWANDE.
(* a letter, probably E is added between O and P, but should more likely have been placed between P and N)

[Ottema p.55 (Jensma has similar translation)]
Nu zoude ieder wanen dat zij overal het volk te hoop geroepen hadden, om ons allen te zamen het land uit te drijven.

[Sandbach p.55]
one would have thought that they would have called all the people together to drive us out of the land

[066/11]
THA STRÁMADA THÀT OR.A SKELDA FOLK TO HÁPA.
Then the 'Ora Skelda' (Over de Scheldt) people 'streamed to heaps' (prepared for battle).

[Ottema p.93]
Toen stroomde het andere Schelda volk te hoop.

[Jensma p.203]
Toen stroomde het Over de Schelde-volk te hoop.

[Sandbach p.93]
Then the other Schelda people poured out towards her.

[195/22]
MEN NW HLIP ALLET ÔRA FOLK TO HÁPE ÀND THA RIKA WÉRON BLÍDE THAT HJA HÉL HÚDIS FON THÉRE ACHT OF KÉMON.
but now all other people revolted and the rich were glad... (etc.)

[Ottema p.235 (Jensma has similar translation)]
maar nu liep al het andere volk te hoop, en de rijken waren blijde dat zij heelhuids van de vergadering afkwamen.

[Sandbach p.235]
so all the people rose up, and the rich were glad to get out of the assembly with whole skins.

- - - - - -
The Dutch expression "te hoop lopen" means: "in opstand komen" (source: http://nl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nederlandstalige_gezegden ); to revolt.
(In the time of the VOC (Dutch United East India Company), the term "hooploper" was used for young sailor's assistants (lichtmatroos).)

Conclusion:
I don't agree that the word is HARE and should be HJARA. It is HÁPE.
WOPA is a known Oldfrisian word.

### Posted 18 January 2012 - 11:35 AM
Knul, on 17 January 2012 - 09:21 PM, said:
OLB words and expressions are simply pseudo Oldfrisian calques of modern mid-19th century Dutch words and expressions, occasionally modern English (like bedrum-bedroom) and modern Frisian (like tobek = terug)

It's not that obvious at all. We don't know how old those words are. BED (the root) and RUM are both known Oldfrisian words. We don't know if BEDRUM means the same as our bedroom. It can also mean praying- or offering-room (from: beden = bidden, bieden).

Quote
the word order in the OLB is completely the Dutch word order (e.g. nei min ynfalda myning - naar mijn eenvoudige mening).

Not only the Dutch word-order, but also the Frisian word-order. If word-order does not change much in a 1000 years, why would it have changed so much in 2000 years or more?

Quote
the juulscript transcription contains many errors (like svnvm instaed of svna, ending -on instead of -en)

We don't know if these are errors, but if they were, what would this prove?

### Posted 18 January 2012 - 11:41 AM
Knul, on 17 January 2012 - 09:21 PM, said:
modern Frisian (like tobek = terug)

TO and BEK are both known Oldfrisian words, that can easily have been used in this combination.
See Richthofen's dictionary.

### Posted 18 January 2012 - 12:51 PM
Abramelin, on 18 January 2012 - 12:32 PM, said:
In general it can be said that ‘Runic Frisian’ cannot be analysed very well with the help of existing grammars and descriptions of Old Frisian [...] since they merely describe ‘Manuscript Old Frisian’ of much later centuries..

By all means interesting, those runes and their language, but I think it is a mistake to call them 'runic Frisian', and to assume that this language would be the main ancestor of the Oldfrisian from the medieval sources.

The find of "makia" = sword is very interesting indeed.

### Posted 18 January 2012 - 01:37 PM
Abramelin, on 18 January 2012 - 01:00 PM, said:
Those runes are from around the period Liko & Hiddo wrote their texts in the OLB, so one should expect both languages would look very similar.

Why? You think all people who lived in that region spoke and wrote the same (and only one) language?

### Posted 19 January 2012 - 10:48 AM
"Het is alleszins de moeite waard van het OLB, als van een echte geschiedbron, kennis te nemen,
indien men zich voor de oude vaderlandse geschiedenis interesseert.

Het is bovendien de moeite waard, de methodes, waarmee het HS in de loop van ruim 100 jaar
werd verguisd en het publiek gedesinformeerd, aan een nader onderzoek te onderwerpen,
indien men zich voor zuivere denk-en discussiemethodes interesseert.

Tenslotte is het altijd de moeite waard, de reputatie van achtenswaardige lieden,
die ten onrechte voor falsificateur of mystificateur gehouden zijn, te repareren,
indien men de normen van het maatschappelijk verkeer wil hooghouden."

- - - - - -
(inprovised translation)

"It is by all means worth the effort,
to learn from the OLB, as if it were a real historical source,
if one is interested in old history.

Above that it is worth the effort,
to research the methods used in over a 100 years,
to revile the manuscript and disinform the public,
if one is interested in pure methods of thinking and discussing.

Ultimately it is always worth the effort,
to repair the reputation of respectable people,
that have been falsely accused of being forgers and lyars,
if one wants to uphold a society of high ethical values."

- - - - - -
's-Gravenhage, 5 September 1989.
Mr. N. Luitse
Conclusion of OLB-Lecture for a society in The Hague.

### Posted 19 January 2012 - 11:59 AM
Yesterday at Tresoar, the Frisian archive of treasures, I read some of the letters that Cornelis Over de Linden wrote to Jan Ottema.

It is clear to me that these gentlemen trusted and respected eachother.

If the manuscript was a forgery, and Over de Linden was one of the forgerers, he has not just lied to Ottema; he would have ruined Ottema's carreer and life in a most heartbreakingly evil way.

This is utterly unlikely. Cornelis Over de Linden was a good man.

I suspect him of one little lie only:
He had not received the manuscript from his aunt Aafje, but got or took it from her daughter, his cousin Cornelia Kofman-Reuvers.

### Posted 19 January 2012 - 02:58 PM
How sardonic is this?

Before he translated and published the OLB, Dr. J.G. Ottema was secretary of the Frisian Society for History, Archaeology and Linguistics (Friesch Genootschap van Geschied-, Oudheid- en Taalkunde).

As the editor of an 1852 publication from this society, 'Die Olde Freesche Cronike - Gesta Frisiorum - M. Alvini Tractatus', he stated that 'Gesta Fresonum' and 'Thet Freske Riim' had to be derived from 'Die olde Freesche Cronike' and 'Tractatus Alvini' respectively.

Furthermore, he suggested that both 'Gesta Fresonum' and 'Thet Freske Riim' were "nothing but linguistic exercises and own fabrication by Simon Abes Gabbema, that he had handed over to his friend [Franciscus] Junius, as if they were most important memorials of antiquity."

Original quote:
"... niet anders zijn, dan proeven van taalstudie en eigen fabrikaat van Simon Abes Gabbema, die hij zijnen vriend [Franciscus] Junius voor hoogst belangrijke gedenkstukken der oudheid in handen gestopt heeft."
Source (p.203)

### Posted 19 January 2012 - 03:25 PM
Abramelin, on 19 January 2012 - 03:13 PM, said:
Lol, so our mr. Halbertsma maybe really did have a reason to get 'even' with Ottema?

Both the Halbertsma and the Haverschmidt hoax-theory only work if one assumes that Cornelis Over de Linden was a most evil liar.

It is a mystery to me how Jensma, who has read COL's letters and diaries, could come to this inconceivable conclusion.

### Posted 19 January 2012 - 11:35 PM
Otharus, on 11 February 2011 - 04:00 PM, said:
"ALVINUS (Magister) was head of the Latin school in Sneek ca. 1400, and secretary of town respectively. [...]

Statement: Alvinus = Alcuinus

I suspect that the author of the original text that was the source for "Thet Freske Riim" and "Tractatus Alvini" was not Magister Alvinus who was rector of the Latin School in Sneek ca. 1400 (as Suffridus Petri believed), but Alcuin of York (Latin: Alcuinus) or Ealhwine (ca.735-804).

Latin poem by Alcuinus (with Dutch translation by Kees Smit)

CARTULA PERGE CITO PELAGI TRANS EQORA CORSU
Briefje, zet snel koers over de grote zee,
OSTIA PISCOSI FLARIS PETE FORTIA RHENI
Zeil voor de wind naar de monding van de visrijke Rijn,
INGREDIENS RAPIDIS PONTUM QUA VOLVITUR UNDIS
Vaar door de branding en de kolkende golven.
TUM TUA PRELONGO DUCATUR PRORA REMULCO
De voorsteven moet aan een lang touw meegesleept worden,
NE CITO RETRORSUM RAPIATUR FLUMINE PUPPIS
anders grijpt de tegenstroom de achtersteven.
SI MEUS ALBRICUS VENIENS OCCURAT IN AMNE
Als mijn vriend Alberik je tegemoet komt op de kade
VACCI POTENS PRAESUL PROPERANS TU DICITO SALVE
De bisschop van het weidegebied, zeg dan gauw 'Gegroet',
NAM TIBI HADDA PRIOR NOCTE NON AMPLIUS UNA
Want zijn prior Haddo zal jou niet meer dan één avond
IN TRAIECT MEL COMPULTIMQUE BUTURQUE MINISTRAT
in Trecht een bord pap voorzetten met honing en boter,
UT PUTE NON OLEUM NEC VINUM FRESIA FUNDIT
Tja, Friezenland produceert geen olijfolie of wijn.
HINC TUA VELA LEVA FUGIENS DORSTADA RELINQUE
Hijs nu het zeil en laat Dorestad links liggen.
NON TIBI FORTE NIGER HROTBERCT PARAT HOSPITA TECTA
Ik denk niet dat die norse Robrecht je onderdak verleent,
NON AMAT ECCE TUUM CARMEN MERCATOR AVARUS
Want weet je, die gierige koopman is niet op jouw lied gesteld.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcuin

### Posted 19 January 2012 - 11:52 PM
HIR BIJINT THAT FRYSKE RYM

IK SKOLDE SEGZA JEF IK KVDE
HO DI FRYDOM ÉROST BIGVDE

THA THJV WRALD ÉROST DEDE FORGAN
AND THJV OTHER DEDE INGAN

ALDVS BISKRIVET ALWYN
THI MASTER IN THA BOKA SYN

THA THI FLODE DEDE OPGAN
AND DEDET ALLE FORSLAN

THER THJV WRALD HEDE BIFAN
BÉDE WIF AND MAN

... andsofort

### Posted 20 January 2012 - 09:44 AM
I changed and finished Abe's English translation:

Little letter, set course to the wide ocean.

Sail with the wind to the mouth of the fishrich Rhine.
Sail through the surf and the swirling waves.

The prow must be dragged along a long rope,
or else the counter current will get the stern.

When my friend Albrikus meets you on the quay,
The bisshop of the meadows, then quickly say "Bye!",
as his prior Haddo will not feed you more than one night
porridge with honey and butter in Traiect.

Alas, Fresia does not produce olive oil or whine.

Set sail and ignore Dorstada.
I don't think grim Rotbercht will invite you,
as, you see, that stingy merchant will not like your song.


What it proves is there was a route from:
Mouth of RHENI => FRESIA; TRAIECT (bishop Alberik, prior Haddo) => DORSTADA (merchant Robrecht)
... and that people ate porridge with honey and butter.

### Posted 21 January 2012 - 09:22 AM
To be read on the church of Wommels in Fryslân, next to the graveyard:


Hier is Geschiet een Rechtveerdich recht
die heer lecht hier al bij den Knecht hier
lecht den aermen al bij den Ricke den Leeleke
al bij den suiverlicke hier lecht den buer al bij den
Eedelman de Geleerde al bij die niet en kan hier
lecht de sot al bij den Wijse den longe al bij den olde
Grise Coempt hier wat Naeder bij en segget
mij wije Rick arm Schoen ofte Eedel sij hier
Leggen sij al bij elc ander den eene en is niet
Meer Geacht Als den Ander Anno 1591.

What happens here is righteous:
The lord lies next to the servant,
the poor with the rich,
the ugly with the purelike,
the neighbor with the nobleman,
the scholar with the nitwit.
Here the fool lies with the wise,
the long with the old grey.
Come closer and tell me;
Who is rich, poor, beautiful or noble?
Here they all lie together.
The one is not considered more as the other.
Year 1591.

### Posted 21 January 2012 - 09:45 AM
St. Catherine with the (broken) Wheel in the Bonifatius-church Leeuwarden:


### Posted 24 January 2012 - 10:10 AM
lilthor, on 24 January 2012 - 08:05 AM, said:
If they date to 800 CE, what was at those sites during the 3-4k years prior to that?
One could imagine they long held raised structures of some kind for observation and even escape from floods (for a few).


Very good question.
Although not much was found indeed, it is hard to imagine that this most strategic and fertile delta was NOT inhabited all those millennia.

My guess is that for ages there was plenty of excellent oakwood (perfect for ships, pole-houses, watch-towers etc., but very flammable in times of war), untill the area was almost completely deforested and the bog-soil (result of age-old forrests) shrinked to become lying below sealevel.

### Posted 24 January 2012 - 10:26 PM
For the dutch-language readers (sorry, no time to translate yet), here's a relevant chapter from:

Friesche Oudheden ~ Afbeeldingen van Merkwaardige Voorwerpen van Wetenschap en Kunst, gevonden in de Archieven, Kerken, Kasteelen, Terpen enz. van Friesland.
Published by the Friesch Genootschap (1875).
Page 48-50 ~ see here

### Posted 24 January 2012 - 10:29 PM
Van Gorp, do you know this book?

Belgisch Museum vd Nederduitse Tael- en Letterkunde en de Geschiedenis des Vaderlands (1837) by Willems
http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

It's on my to read-list it.

### Posted 30 January 2012 - 04:45 PM
By accident I ran into this documentary today, from Frisian television, about the OLB.
One of the final editors (eindredactie) was prof. dr. G.Th. Jensma.
In this doco his theory, that Haverschmidt wrote the OLB, is presented as fact.

When his thesis was presented and discussed some years ago, none of the speakers believed his conclusion and yet this is what the Frisian audience is being taught by the professor.

NOTE: the video is not subtitled in Dutch, so most Dutch won't understand it, and it has no tags or description, so searching online to find info about the OLB, no-one would find it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZ7W7_I-Vo

### Posted 31 January 2012 - 03:28 PM
Another reason why it is most unlikely (I'd say impossible) that Joost Halbertsma (1789-1869) was involved in the supposed (by Knul and Abe) fabrication of the OLB.

In 1867 Cornelis Over de Linden started corresponding with dr. Eelco Verwijs from the Fries Genootschap about the manuscript, and in the same year Verwijs reported to the government.

If - as Knul claims - Over de Linden and Stadermann had created their forgery based on Halbertsma's work, there are two possibilities:

1. Halbertsma knew about the forgery and agreed.
2. They had used his text without his agreement.

If 1. is true, Halbertsma risked being accused of forgery. With his place in society it is unthinkable that he would risk this.
If 2. is true, Over de Linden risked that Halbertsma (still alive in 1867) would spoil the forgery.

### Posted 31 January 2012 - 04:08 PM
Abramelin, on 31 January 2012 - 03:31 PM, said:
-2- But the book was published after Halbertsma's death; he may not even have known someone had used/stolen his fable about ancient Frisian history, or that people were busy communicating (letters) about it.

He was an honorary member of the Genootschap and still alive in 1867, when it was first discussed there.
It is unthinkable that he has not heard about it.

### Posted 31 January 2012 - 05:40 PM
Abramelin, on 31 January 2012 - 04:15 PM, said:
Then it's even better: he heard about it and kept his mouth shut, just to see the story unfold.
I don't know what I would do if someone publishes one of my concoctions believing it to be a real authentic and ancient manuscript. Maybe I'd just sit back and have an eternal grin on my face, lol.


Nonsense.
If Halbertsma would have been involved and if he would have talked, Cornelis Over de Linden would have been accused of something very bad (remember that Verwijs already reported to the government about it).

And if he was involved but stayed silent, he would still have risked losing his own very good reputation, specially in the Friesch Genootschap (Frisian Society).

This was not about an innocent joke.

The point is, that Over de Linden would not have risked being betrayed by Halbertsma, and Halbertsma would not have gambled with his excellent reputation by being part of a forgery.

### Posted 01 February 2012 - 12:16 AM
Abramelin, on 31 January 2012 - 08:42 PM, said:
I didn't deny Joost was a member, just that his brother Eeltje didn't have a very high opinion of these guys.

I suspect that part of the Genootschap's hidden agenda was to stress the uniqueness of Friesland (the Dutch provence), the (modern) Frisians, their language and culture, as opposed to Holland and the Dutch of their time. (And maybe even prepare for separation, if they would ever get the chance.)

The OLB did exactly the opposite: describe a shared history, language and culture.
The OLB (if true) is from a shared past. Some words survived in Dutch mainly, others only in Frisian.

Most members of this Genootschap will not have seen any use in Dutch-Frisian shared past & language; it did not match their agenda.

I observe something interesting and at the same time totally logical about the new-Frisian (Ny-Frysk) language:

If they can choose between two words that have the same meaning and are both correct (synonyms), Frisians (who love the uniqueness of their language) will prefer to use the more 'un-Dutch', the more typically Frisian variety. This is how neighboring languages deviate: People want to have their own language, preferrably not understood by the 'enemy' (or simply neighbor). The Dutch language has many synonyms, some more like German, others more like English. If Dutch people dislike Germans, they will avoid using Germanisms, but rather prefer Anglicisms. Theoretically, after a long time of peace and friendship with our neighboring countries, our vocabulary would be much more extended, as we would be happy to also use their languages and vocabulary, and play with mixing them.

Just thinking out loud here.
I have always been more interested in how languages match, rather than differ.

If the OLB language would have been created by some mad genius, it would be the perfect reconstruction of a shared origin of Dutch, Frisian, English, German and 'Scandinavian' (to name just the few most obvious ones).

It beautifully reflects what these languages have in common.

If a group of nowaday specialists would be asked to create a book in a reconstructed language of a few hundred years BC, I don't believe they could ever come up with something half as good as the OLB language.

### Posted 02 February 2012 - 01:52 PM
Abramelin, on 02 February 2012 - 12:06 PM, said:
My main purpose was to show how many adaptions Sandbach made with or without the help of Ottema.

Sandbach's wife was Dutch. She helped him.
Ottema was happy with his layout and copied it for the 2nd Dutch edition, but he was a bit dissapointed about the inaccuracy of the English translation.
(Source: letters Ottema to L.F. Over de Linden)

### Posted 02 February 2012 - 03:48 PM
Ottema's darkest side

The letters between dr. Ottema and the Over de Lindens (first Cornelis and later his son Leendert Floris) show that there is one thing they kept disagreeing about and this may be a tiny but most important detail:

The translation and interpretation of the word "od" in the "forma skédnise" (creation myth).

Ottema insisted that it meant "hate" (from Latin), while Cornelis suggested it would have to do with fertility (from Saxon and old-Norse), which makes much more sense in the context anyway.

Ottema to L.F. Over de Linden (translated from letter in Dutch dated 26-1-1876):

"Od (anger, rage, hate, animosity) trad to-ra binna, means that hate entered the hearts of the three daughters of Irtha; this hate was obviously inherited by all of their descendants, and this is cause of the inborn, innate animosity specially in Finda's and Lyda's posterity against Frya's children. An animosity that will not end until the people of Finda and Lyda will be exterminated, and the people of Frya at the final victory will remain and inherit and posess the whole earth.
This animosity dominates all of history in the OLB and still goes on in our days. Frya's people pervade in all continents and establish European supremacy all over the earth. Everywhere the peoples of Finda and Lyda will have to submit or disappear."

If Ottema really believed that his very own family name was derived from a word that means "hate", it is no surprise that his life ended the way it did.

~ ~ ~
Later I will translate parts of a letter from Cornelis Over de Linden, that demonstrate a completely different (positive) attitude.

### Posted 02 February 2012 - 04:46 PM
Abramelin, on 02 February 2012 - 04:39 PM, said:
Maybe "OD" could simply mean "lust"?
Like in "They were filled with lust".
"Entered by lust" or "Lust found its way among them" would sound a bit crappy.


LOL, yes, I'd prefer that to "hate".
Actually, I am sure that the whole reception history of the OLB would have been completely different.
Cornelis Over de Linden tried to warn Ottema, but the latter was too stubborn, or maybe he had a dark hidden agenda...

### Posted 03 February 2012 - 12:14 PM
Otharus, on 21 December 2011 - 11:28 AM, said:
L.F. Over de Linden ("Beweerd maar niet bewezen", 1877) also refers to this:
"The most important peculiarity, concerning the origin of our numbers - called 'Arabic', but never used by the Arabs - the peculiarity that these numbers, in the 'Yul' as in the manuscript, appear as ornamentfigures in the decorations of the Alhambra, the greatest memorial of Morish architecture in Spain...


I found them:
Source:
The Arabian antiquities of Spain, by James Cavanah Murphy, London 1813

Comment from dr. Ottema in a letter to L.F. Over de Linden, dated 4-3-1875 (translation):
"For our ciphars we are not indebted to the Arabs, for the simple reason, that they never used such figures as ciphars, and we therefore could not have gotten ours from them."

### Posted 03 February 2012 - 02:02 PM
Abramelin, on 03 February 2012 - 12:53 PM, said:
Yeah, I get it now, Ottema's 'dark side'... he's a first class racist.

The Nazi's wanted to exterminate 'only' the Jews, but Ottema's ideal was that all yellow and black people would 'disappear'...

Interestingly, in the OLB a completely different final victory is idealised.

From HEL.LÉNJA.S SKRIFTA:
[OLB p.140/18 with translation Sandbach, and some corrections by me]

MEN AS THA PRESTERA SKILUN WÁNA THÀT HJA ALLET LJUCHT FON FRYA ÀND FON JES.US LÉRE UTDÁVATH HÀVA.
But when the priests fancy that they have entirely extinguished the light of Frya and Jessos [Jes-us],

SÁ SKILUN THÉR IN ALLE VVRDA MÀNNISKA VPSTONDA THAM WÉRHÉD IN STILNISE AMONG EKKORUM WARATH ÀND TO FÁRA THA PRESTERA FORBORGEN HÀVE.
then shall all classes of men [in all places] rise up who have quietly preserved the truth among themselves [eachother], and have hidden it from the priests.

THISSA SKILUN WÉSA UT FORSTA BLOD. FON PRESTERUM BLOD FON SLÁVONUM BLOD ÀND FON FRYA.S BLOD.
They shall be of princely blood, of priests, Slavonic [slaves], and Frya's blood.

THAM SKILUM HJARA FODDIKUM ÀND THÀT LJUCHT BUTA BRINGA SÁ THAT ALLERA MÀNNALIK WÉRHÉD MÉI SJAN.
They will make their light visible [bring out their 'foddiks' and the light], so that all men shall see the truth;

HJA SKILUN WÉ HROPA OVERA DÉDA THÉRA PRESTERA ÀND FORSTA.
they shall cry woe to the acts of the princes and the priests.

THA FORSTA THÉR WÉRHÉD MINNA ÀND RJUCHT THAM SKILUN FON THA PRESTERA WIKA.
The princes who love the truth and justice shall separate themselves from the priests;

BLOD SKIL STRÁMA.
blood shall flow,

MEN THÉRUT SKILET FOLK NYE KRÀFTA GÁRA.
but from it the people will gather new strength.

FINDA.S FOLK SKIL SINA FINDINGRIKHÉD TO MÉMA NITHA WENDA.
Finda's folk shall contribute their industry [inventiveness] to the common good,

THÀT LYDA.S FOLK SINA KRÀFTA ÀND WI VSA WISDOM.
Linda's [Lyda's] folk their strength, and we our wisdom.

THA SKILUN THA FALXA PRESTERA WÉI FÁGATH WERTHA FON JRTHA.
Then the false priests shall be swept away from the earth.

### Posted 03 February 2012 - 02:18 PM
Dr. Ottema in a letter to L.F. Over de Linden, dated 13-6-1876 (translated from Dutch):

"On a memorial stone of Domburg Neef Teunis is standing next to Nehalennia.
You can also see him on the tower of Zierikzee, where he has the job of weather vane,
and all his life was known to the people of Zierikzee as nothing other than Neef Teunis."


Image of the weather vane in Zierikzee, known to the 19th century inhabitants as "Neef Teunis" (old-Dutch name for Neptune?).

### Posted 03 February 2012 - 03:00 PM
Otharus, on 02 February 2012 - 02:25 PM, said:
The suggestion that a book is loved mostly by neo-nazi's and other extremists is an effective way to make it taboo to speak openly about it (in other words suppress it).

More about the taboo on taking the OLB seriously:

Dr. Ottema in a letter to L.F. Over de Linden, dated 24-6-1876 (translated from Dutch):
"I wish someone would act who is courageous enough to defend the OLB in public, without fear for the systematic intimidation.
Because all the howling is intimidation, started by Spectator magazine and systematically sustained.
There are enough proponents, but they dare not speak, out of fear of being declared fool or villain."


### Posted 03 February 2012 - 03:17 PM
One of the probable reasons why it was made a taboo to take the OLB seriously.

Cornelis Over de Linden in a letter to Dr. Ottema, dated 16-11-1871 (translated from Dutch):
"I don't have the slightest doubts that one day the truth will come float to the surface, but now that I have studied your translation, I figure that the laws described in it are very radical, and that when the theology it teaches would become that of the people again, all sorts of clergymen would have to find a new job. That is why I think they will oppose it as much as is in their power."

### Posted 03 February 2012 - 03:58 PM
Otharus, on 14 July 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:
In the most scientific publication about the paper-age study, "The Oera Linda Boek - A literary forgery and its paper", by A. Kardinaal, E. v.d. Grijn, H. Porck; published in: IPH Congress Book 16 (2006), p. 177-185; discussed here, it is merely suggested that the paper is from the 19th century, but not clearly stated.

The following quote from dr. Ottema (translated from letter to L.F. Over de Linden, dated june or july 1876) about the OLB paper is interesting, but was not mentioned by Jensma nor in the report of the recent paper study:

"Concerning the waterlines, the making of paper on wire frames was invented by the Goths in Spain between the years 1035 when Toledo was conquered, and 1238 when Valencia was conquered. They already used watermills and stamping techniques to process cotton tatters. See: Meyers Conversations Lexicon; art. Paper.
[...] Remember this: no chlorine and no amylose, therefore no machine-made paper. I would be surprised if the ink is anything else than pure lamp-soot, that remains black and does not corrode the paper."


### Posted 03 February 2012 - 04:46 PM
Abramelin, on 03 February 2012 - 04:03 PM, said:
I find this quote highly suspicious. It's almost like CodL gives us the true reason why he created or took part in the fabrication of the OLB.


Here's another fragment.
Cornelis Over de Linden in a letter to Dr. Ottema, dated 26-10-1873 (translated from Dutch):

"I gave a copy of The Oera Linda Bok [Ottema's translation] to a cousin of mine who works in the town hall of Enkhuizen. He borrowed it to the gentlemen of the town hall. One of those gentlemen made the remark, that the ALDEGAMUEDE must be the 'Oudergouw' near Enkhuizen, NOT 'Ouddorp' near Alkmaar. This 'Oudergouw' is a brook right behind the city that is being dried these days. It is three poles, that is half a tide or three hours from Medeasblik."

OLB page/line
050/19: ALDE-GÁ-MVDE
053/15: ALDER-GÁ-MVDE
065/22: ALDER-GÁ
085/22: ALDERGA
110/17+23: ALDERGA
116/31: ALDERGÁ
118/26: ALDERGA
120/04: ALDERGA
148/15: ALDER-GÁ
157/22: ALDER-GÁ

Ottema didn't change Ouddorp into Oudergouw in his second edition (1876) as suggested by Cornelis.

This is about Enkhuizen, where Cornelis had his roots and from where he got the manuscript.

Why, if he was involved in its creation, would he have waited till after the first edition, with pointing out to Ottema that Alderga should be Oudergouw (near Enkhuizen) and not Ouddorp (near Alkmaar)?

For me this is another indication that Cornelis was innocent and honest, but for Jensma it will be more proof of his slyness.

### Posted 03 February 2012 - 09:40 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia
Paranoia (adjective: paranoid) is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Making false accusations and the general distrust of others also frequently accompany paranoia.

Jensma's Haverschmidt theory

Somewhere around 1860, François Haverschmidt (1835-1894) wrote the OLB in Dutch, Eelco Verwijs (1830-1880) translated it into a reconstruction of Oldfrisian, and Cornelis Over de Linden (1811-1874) wrote it in the specially designed Jol-script.
- Haverschmidt would have lied in publications and personally to Ottema, who had been his teacher and whom Haverschmidt respected. As Jensma put it, "he broke reputations, in the first place that of poor Ottema, whose old days he poisoned and whose remembrance he stultified."
- Verwijs would have lied in publications, to his fellow members of the Fries Genootschap and to Government officials. In Jensma's words, he would have "deceived his superiors and abused his professional authority". All letters between Verwijs and Over de Linden would have been part of the hoax.
- Cornelis Over de Linden would have lied in all his letters to Ottema and to his very own family, even in his testament. He would have replaced a real old family-document (that according to several witnesses must have existed) by a fake manuscript. Jensma describes Cornelis as a "brutal liar".
- Anyone defending one of the three 'convicts', or confirming Over de Linden's story, must be a liar too, and part of the conspiracy.

### Posted 04 February 2012 - 10:41 AM
OLB-related books in Frisian public libraries (Tresoar not included)
Leeuwarden
- Jensma: Gemaskerde God (2004)
- Jensma: Oera Linda-boek (2006)
Sneek
- Jensma: Gemaskerde God (2004)
- Jensma: Oera Linda-boek (2006)
Dokkum
- Jensma: Gemaskerde God (2004)
Heerenveen
- Jensma: Gemaskerde God (2004)

### Posted 04 February 2012 - 11:49 AM
Abramelin, on 04 February 2012 - 11:35 AM, said:
Well, you must live in fairy land if you really think the OLB is being suppressed.

I think we are talking about something different.
I guess you mean suppressed by the government or something, like political suppression.
I will try to explein better what I mean:

Before I found this forum, I have tried a few times to make the Dutch Wiki-page about the OLB a bit more neutral. It had been set up by a Jensma adept and he would not allow a single change. There other views than that of Jensma and his followers were suppressed in that sense.

Jensma in his book suggests that 'followers' of Ottema are idiots, nazis and other 'suspicious' people.
How encouraging is that?

When I started asking difficult questions to the research group that is investigating the OLB-paper (lead by guess who, Jensma), they answered that they would not give any further information.

In the beginning of this thread you claimed that no-one in the Netherlands or Friesland believed in OLB's authenticity and you suggested that it's so selfevident that it's fake that to believe it one has to be very stupid. I think you also suggested once that it's only neonazis who like it.

What about the fact that in Ottema's obituary from the Fries Genootschap, his lifework the OLB is not even mentioned? Appearantly it was a painful, embassaring subject.

I have heard about people losing their mind, studying the OLB.
To have one's belief system challenged can be a very scary thing.
People tend to suppress difficult or painful thoughts and memories.
They do this to themselves and others, no government needed.

### Posted 04 February 2012 - 02:09 PM
Abramelin, on 04 February 2012 - 12:21 PM, said:
About Ottema's obituary: could it not have been his work on the OLB was left out on request of his family to 'protect his reputation' which had suffered quite a lot because it?

Whether it was Ottema's relatives or the Fries Genootschap, the fact that OLB was his lifework, that he was 'Mister OLB', that he had become internationally known for it etc., was left out of his obituary from 1879.

Four years earlier (1875), another publication from the Genootschap was still very positive about the OLB and Ottema's work on it.

Something happened between 1875 and 1879, and I know exactly what: Beckering Vinkers aggressive pseudo-scientific publication (1876), which "aimed at ridiculing the OLB" as he admitted. After this no-one dared to speak positively about it. The effect of this publication was suppression of the OLB. The subject had become taboo.

### Posted 04 February 2012 - 04:54 PM
Abramelin, on 04 February 2012 - 12:31 AM, said:
And yes, most Dutch think it is ridiculous there are people who believe in it, but that's about it.

Most Dutch have never even heard of it and most of the few who have, hardly know anything more than what they know from hearsay.

But yes, many of those few will talk like you at the beginning of this thread, that no sane person would believe it and that it would be a self-evident hoax.

My point is: it's not that obvious and it would deserve a serious unbiassed multidisciplinary investigation.

### Posted 04 February 2012 - 05:26 PM
I think the high relevance of my post about Ottema was missed.

Otharus, on 02 February 2012 - 03:48 PM, said:
Ottema's darkest side
[...]
Ottema to L.F. Over de Linden (translated from letter in Dutch dated 26-1-1876):

"[...] An animosity that will not end until the people of Finda and Lyda will be exterminated, and the people of Frya at the final victory will remain and inherit and posess the whole earth.
This animosity dominates all of history in the OLB and still goes on in our days. Frya's people pervade in all continents and establish European supremacy all over the earth. Everywhere the peoples of Finda and Lyda will have to submit or disappear."
[...]


If he wrote things like this to Over de Linden he may have talked like this too, in meetings of the Genootschap, informally, or who knows where and when.

It may have been a good thing to shut him up.

If only he would have listened to Cornelis and chosen a better translation of that little odd word in the creation myth...

### Posted 04 February 2012 - 05:54 PM
Otharus, on 03 February 2012 - 12:14 PM, said:




Which version looks more original?
If you'd ask me, I'd say that it looks like the Alhambra artist had once seen the Jol-numbers, but didn't exactly remember and tried to reconstruct from his memory.
The OLB-version makes more sense to me.

### Posted 04 February 2012 - 06:29 PM
Because Abe has challenged me several times to post something in favor of the hoax-theories, I will for once descend to that level.

Why François Haverschmidt might have written the OLB.

Under the pseudonym "Piet Paaltjens", he wrote this poem ca. 1850:

Aan Rika

Slechts éénmaal heb ik u gezien. Gij waart
Gezeten in een sneltrein, die den trein,
Waar ik mee reed, passeerde in volle vaart.
De kennismaking kon niet korter zijn.
En toch, zij duurde lang genoeg, om mij
Het eindloos levenspad met fletsen lach
Te doen vervolgen. Ach! geen enkel blij
Glimlachje liet ik meer, sinds ik u zag.
Waarom ook hebt gij van dat blonde haar,
Daar de engelen aan te kennen zijn? En dan,
Waarom blauwe ogen, wonderdiep en klaar?
Gij wist toch, dat ik daar niet tegen kan?
En waarom mij dan zo voorbijgesneld,
En niet als de weerlicht 't rijtuig opgerukt,
En om mijn hals uw armen vastgekneld,
En op mijn mond uw lippen vastgedrukt?
Gij vreesdet mooglijk voor een spoorwegramp?
Maar, Rika, wat kon zaalger voor mij zijn,
Dan, onder hels geratel en gestamp,
Met u verplet te worden door één trein?

[OLB 189/02] use of the name Rika
BRÉF FON RIKA THJU ALD.FÁM. VPSÉID TO STÁVEREN BY.T JOL.FÉRSTE.

[OLB 009/18] blue eyes
FRYA WAS WIT LIK SNÉI BY.T MÔRNE.RÁD ÀND THAT BLÁW HJRAR ÔGNUM. WN.ET JETA THÉRE RÉINBÔGE OF.

[OLB 009/22] this must be about (light-) blond hair
LIK STRÉLON THÉRE MIDDÉI SVNNE BLIKADON HJRA HÉRON THÉR SA FIN WÉRON AS RACH.

If I think it's a strong argument? No.

### Posted 04 February 2012 - 10:18 PM
Let's brainstorm about these Alhambra decorations.

To me the Alhambra numbers look like they have been made by someone who tried to make sense out the the idea that the numbers were based on a circle with spokes, but he couldn't really figure it out.

It's not likely that the OLB version is based on the Alhambra ones, and yet they seem to be somehow related.

It makes more sense that the Alhambra ones were vaguely based on a more original version where they were indeed fitted into a 6-spoked wheel.

### Posted 04 February 2012 - 11:27 PM
Abramelin, on 04 February 2012 - 10:37 PM, said:
To me the Alhambra numbers look like someone from Arabic descent went to India and wanted to create his own version, using (semi-)circles.
The result looks the same, the basis is different.
And we have Arab manuscripts far older than the OLB (= 19th century).


Why Arabic?
Arabic numbers look different.

### Posted 05 February 2012 - 01:24 PM
About 'suppression' of the OLB.

If I would have children, I would not want their minds to be poisoned with lies and nonsense.
So if I would believe that the OLB was fake, I would not want a schoolteacher to teach my kids that it is true.
It would needlessly confuse them.
I would want him to shut up and leave.
So I perfectly understand why and respect that OLB-'advocates' have been suppressed.
. . . . . .
But now it's time to evaluate whether the arguments used to reject it were strong and sincere.
Jensma wrote that he did not include a list of personal and geographic names, because that would only encourage reading it as if it were true.
What was he affraid of?
That some readers might start believing in its authenticity?
Did he realise that his (hoax) arguments were not strong enough?

### Posted 06 February 2012 - 11:24 AM
In his 2006 book, Jensma suggests on pages 143 and 195 (OLB pages 36 and 62) that the makers of the OLB have created the etymology for Nehalennia = NY.HEL.LÉNJA = bringer of new light.

I have found an older source where this etymology is suggested:
"Schatkamer der Nederlandsse Oudheden" (1711) by Ludolf Smids


### Posted 06 February 2012 - 12:20 PM
Anyway, we have established, that the etymology Nehalennia => NY-HEL => new light is not a 19th century invention, as Jensma thought, but older than 1711.

### Posted 06 February 2012 - 04:38 PM
Alewyn, on 06 February 2012 - 03:24 PM, said:
To my mind, therefore, I find Ottema and Sandbach’s translation of the word “odd” to “hatred” or “hate” (“haat” in Afrikaans) to be correct and not the sexual connotation you put to it.

Thank you for your answer, Alewyn.

The word is OD, not ODD, and my interpretation is not necessarily "sexual".

I have argued that the translation into "hatred" is based on Latin, while the word has a very different meaning in Old-Saxon (ancestral inheritance, luck, etc.) and Old-Norse (spirit, life-force).

Now guess what languages are more related to Old-Frisian? Not Latin!

That Ottema insisted in this mistranslation is even more shocking, because Over de Linden (and later his son) pointed out the better translations to him.

OdL also warned Ottema that if you tell your children stories about hate, they will more probably start fighting, while if you tell them about love, they will grow up more lovingly. I will copy and translate that letter when I visit the archives next time.

Also look at the context: something enters the three women, and AFTER THAT they give birth to 12 sons and 12 daughters.

There has to be something seriously wrong with you, if you believe that "hate" can make a woman pregnant (or that the old Frisians educated their children that way).

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Having said all this, I did not loose any sleep over it as the creation myth is obviously not factual.

A creation myth defines how people think about the origin of life.

In Ottema's mind, the translation of OD into "hate", resulted in fantasies about white supremacy and the extermination of all coloured peoples.

Here lies the major difference in the minds of Ottema and Over de Linden.

### Posted 06 February 2012 - 11:19 PM
Alewyn, on 06 February 2012 - 08:48 PM, said:
I don't think that the OdLs was qualified to advise Ottema on the translation.
Ottema was, after all, highly regarded as a linguist.


OdL was self-educated and knew several OLB words that were still known in North-Holland, but not in Friesland. Ottema gratefully accepted several suggestions from OdL.

### Posted 06 February 2012 - 11:26 PM
Alewyn, on 06 February 2012 - 08:48 PM, said:
Let us look at the sentence again:
“Od trad to-ra binna”


Have a GOOD look at the original.

The sentence is: "WR.ALDA.S OD TRÀD TO RA BINNA"

If "od" meant "hate", it would say: "wralda's hate".
"God's hate"?!
I hope you will finally see that it really does not make sense.

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 11:34 AM
Alewyn, on 07 February 2012 - 10:34 AM, said:
Just have another look at the full text:
Frisian transcription on “Project Gutenberg”: ...


This transcription is the one by Ottema, which is not without mistakes. He had to make it in a hurry. I only work with the original and have discovered many transcription errors, that sometimes lead to translation errors. This is one of them.

Here is, once more, the fragment in the original manuscript:


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As you can see, from all of the above, none of these translations say “Wralda’s od”.

That is because they are based on Ottema's erroneous transliteration.

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You will also notice that Wralda breathed his spirit upon Frya only

No, that's your erroneous translation (based on a misinterpretation by Sandbach); HJA KÉMON and HJAM are plural.

[006/26]
THÁ HJA BLÁT KÉMON SPISDE WR.ALDA HJAM MITH SINA ÁDAMA.
Ottema (1876):
Toen deze te voorschijn kwamen, spijsde Wralda haar met zijnen adem
Sandbach (1876):
When the last came into existence, Wr-alda breathed his spirit upon her
Jensma (2006):
Toen zij bloot kwamen, spijsde Wralda hen met zijn adem

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The word “trad” is closer to “tread” than to “enter”.

Yes, so something "tread" into them.
I didn't know that was proper English.

Why could this not be something positive like "spirit", "life-force" (from Old-Norse), or something based on the Old-Saxon "od", which seems to have meant "luck", or "ancestral inheritance". Both the Old-Norse and the Old-Saxon versions have nothing to do with "hate", that's only in Latin.

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In the original manuscript there does not appear to be a full stop after “Wralda’s”, in which case your interpretation could be right.

Indeed, my interpretations are based on the original manuscript only.

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The previous sentence, however, would then end with “visions”. This does not make sense. Whose visions?

No, it ends with "DRÁMA", which means "dreams".
They got "FRÜCHDA ÀND NOCHTA ANDA DRÁMA" = they got "fruits and nuts" (methaphor) or "joy and pleasure" (Dutch: vreugde en genot/ geneugten) "in the/ their dreams".

Compare:
[202/32]
NÉI THONGAR WÉRON FRIA.S SJVGUN WÁK.FÁMKES HJA ANDA DRÁME FORESKINNEN. SJVGUN NACHTA ÀFTER EKKÔRUM.
Ottema:
Na dien donder waren Fryas zeven waakmaagden haar in den droom verschenen, zeven nachten achtereen
Sandbach:
After the thunder Frya's seven watch-maidens appeared to her in a dream seven nights in succession.

### Posted 07 February 2012 - 12:33 PM
Alewyn, on 07 February 2012 - 10:34 AM, said:
Nowhere else in the book are they as explicit as you suggest in this part.
This was a history book which, no doubt, was intended to be read and taught to children as well.


Have a good look at the following fragment, and note that both Ottema and Sandbach self-censored, as I will prove:

[082/19]
HWIL THAT ALREK DROK TO KÀMPANE WÉRE
WAS THÉR EN WLA FIN TO THÉRE FLÉTE JEFTHA BEDRUM FON THÉRE MODER INLET.
ÁND WILDE HJA NÉDGJA.
THA THJU MODER WÉRDIM OF THAT ER BEKWÁRD TOJÉNST THA WÁCH STRUMPELDE.
THÁ.R WITHER VPA BÉN WÉRE STEKER SIN SWÉRD TO IR BUK IN. SEGZANDE.
NILST MIN KUL NAVT SÁ SKILST MIN SWÉRD HA.


Ottema (1876):
Terwijl iedereen druk aan het vechten was,
was er een leelijke Fin in de (fleete) of het slaapvertrek van de Moeder binnen geslopen,
en wilde haar geweld aandoen.
De Moeder weerde hem af, dat hij ruggelings tegen de wand tuimelde.
Toen hij weder op de been was, stak hij haar zijn zwaard in de buik, zeggende:
wilt gij mijne roede niet, zoo zult gij mijn zwaard hebben.


Sandbach (1876):
While the fight was going on,
a rascally Finn stole into the chamber of the mother,
and would have done her violence.
She resisted him, and threw him down against the wall.
When he got up, be ran his sword through her:
If you will not have me, you shall have my sword.


Jensma (2006):
Terwijl een ieder druk aan het vechten was,
was er een vuile Fín in de 'fleete' of slaapkamer van de Moeder geslopen
en wilde haar verkrachten.
Maar de Moeder weerde 'm af zodat-ie achteruit tegen de wand strompelde.
Toen-ie weer op de been was, stak-ie zijn zwaard in haar buik, zeggende:
"Wil je mijn kul niet, dan zul je mijn zwaard hebben."


Raubenheimer (2011, p.371):
While everybody was fiercely fighting,
a vile Finn slipped into the bedroom of the mother
and wanted to violate her.
She fought him off so that he fell backwards against the wall.
When he got up, he ran his sword through her abdomen saying:
"If you will not have me, you shall have my sword".


Old-Frisian dictionary (1832) Hettema about NEDGA:

NÉDGJA = NEDGA = to rape (Dutch: verkrachten)

Frisian dictionary (1896) Dijkstra & Buitenrust Hettema about KUL:
KUL = penis

### Posted 07 February 2012 - 12:42 PM
Alewyn, on 07 February 2012 - 10:34 AM, said:
Sometimes one has to take a holistic view of the book to try to determine the correct meaning such as in this case. [...]
I find it unlikely that they would have described the penetration of these earth mothers’ bodies as you claim. [...]
I find it even more unbelievable that the old Fryans would have ascribed a carnal act to their most revered Creator.


If you want to understand the "old Fryans" from the OLB, I would advise to take a more holistic view of Frisian cultural history, like I try to do.

One of the things you will learn, is that their language was far more rich in words and expressions that refer to sexuality, than modern Dutch, English and German together.

That subject, BTW, was one of Joost Halbertsma's passions.

Here's a fragment to illustrate from:
J.H. Halbertsma als lexicograaf. Studies over het Lexicon Frisicum (1872),
by Anne Dykstra, for the Fryske Akademy - Afūk, Ljouwert 2011.

(From chapter 5 - Sexual language and the Lexicon Frisicum)

### Posted 07 February 2012 - 02:13 PM
Alewyn, on 07 February 2012 - 01:43 PM, said:
You have convinced me. Your interpretation is correct. (It sometimes just take a bit longer)

Thank you, no worries. I'm also learning to explain things better.

### Posted 07 February 2012 - 10:38 PM
Here's all fragments with WRALDAS, WRALDA.S or WR.ALDA.S; Wralda-his.
(I have not checked all transliterations this time.)

As you can see there are only four examples were WRALDAS is placed AFTER the word that it belongs to, as it more usually (21 times, "WRALDAS OD" not included) is placed before the word, just like in modern English, Dutch and Frysk.

Also note that in none of the four examples an underscore is used between the word and WRALDAS.

Normal use: WRALDAS before the word; 21 times
THJUS ÁGATH WRALDA.S GÁST
THESSA NIGUNG HÀVATH WI TRVCH WR.ALDA.S GÁST
ÉWA IS ÁK THET ÔRA SINNA.BYLD FON WR.ALDA.S GÁST
NÉI THA SIN THÉR WR.ALDA.S GÁST
FON WR.ALDA.S GÁST NÉTON HJA NAWET
THAT NIMMAN GOD JEFTA FVLKVMA WÉSA NE KVNDE THÀN WR.ALDA.S. GÁST
THET HJARA GÁST THET BESTE DÉL IS FON WR.ALDA.S GÁST
WÉRE HJARA GÁST WR.ALDA.S GÁST SÁ SKOLDE WR.ALDA ÉL DVM WÉSA
WY FRYA.S BERN SEND FORSKINSLA THRVCH WR.ALDA.S LÉVA
VMBE SÉJEN TO WINNANDE FON WR.ALDA.S.GÁST
BÉVADE JRTHA LÎK WR.ALDAS SÉ
WR.ALDAS GÁST MÉI MÀN ALLÉNA KNIBUWGJANDE TÁNK TOWÍA
THÀT IS WRALDAS GÁST
THRVCH WR.ALDAS SÉ BISLOTEN
THAT.I FRYA ÀND WR.ALDAS GÁST MIS.KÀNA ÀND SPOTA THVRADE
THÀT AIDER SKEPSLE EN DÉL IS FON WR.ALDAS VNENDLIK WÉSA
THRVCH UT WR.ALDAS LÉVA
EN DÉL FON WRALDAS VNENDELIK WÉSA
THINGA THAM THRVCH WR.ALDAS LÉVA FORSKINA
VSA GÁST NIS NAVT WR.ALDAS GÁST
AK LIKTET NÉI WR.ALDA.S HÉI
- - - - - -
Variety: WRALDAS after the word; 4 times
AN THA NÔME WRALDAS
IK BEN THET BESTE DÉL WR.ALDAS
HROP THÀN THI GÁST WR.ALDAS AN
THÀT IS THÀT FORMA SINNE BILD WR.ALDA.S

### Posted 07 February 2012 - 10:44 PM
The 3 mothers started having 'fruits' and 'nuts' in their dreams (not Wralda's), before they became pregnant.
Don't fruits and nuts have everything to do with fertility and procreation?
Aboriginals would perfectly understand this concept, wouldn't they, Puzzler?
A seed dreams of becoming a plant or tree, etc.
Reality follows after dreamtime.
Good dreams lead to good deeds.

### Posted 08 February 2012 - 10:08 AM
Abramelin, on 07 February 2012 - 11:22 PM, said:
Heh, did you even READ my translation?
I created my own.
I didn't use anyone else's.
Well, check what I made of it and you will realize you will find it nowhere else.
Look, Otharus, somehow you appear to be pissed off by my translation for god knows what reason.


No, I just don't think it's any good.
I'm a bit pissed off yes, because I have put a lot of effort in showing that Ottema clearly made an error transliterating (with big consequences), and you just ignored it.
And then you're too proud to admit your mistake, resulting in a lot of timewasting.
If you put the point correctly, you can still translate with "Wralda's humunculus" or whatever you like.
I don't know what was meant with OD. It may have been ambiguous.
I just argued we can better look at the OldNorse and Oldsaxon meanings rather than Latin.

### Posted 08 February 2012 - 10:09 AM
Abramelin, on 07 February 2012 - 11:28 PM, said:
"Ring as hja rip wêron krêjon hja früchda aend nochta anda drâma Wr.aldas"

How could the girls know Wralda's dreams or visions?

### Posted 09 February 2012 - 10:27 AM
Letter from Cornelis Over de Linden to Dr. Ottema, dated 8-11-1871 (translated).

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Den Helder, 8 November 1871

Dear and erudite sir,

I am pleased that we have come to an agreement.

When nothing is in the way, one can think more clearly. Therefore I will once more point at my earlier comments.

You would prefer to translate 'poppenkoningen' into 'papenkings' ['paap' is an invection for catholics]. Here in Westfriesland strangers are called 'pop', terms like 'poppe-horses' and '-pigs' are known too.

Thus you would not risk a mistake if you would use 'strange kings' for 'poppa koningen'. You say: "In Apolonnia's book, the 'Formleer' is the purest representation of Godness, that most agrees with the Christian view. More sublime than Jehova from the old Testament, who goes for a walk in the garden of Eden in the morning, to have a chat with Adam.

If you want to prevent that many people will put the book aside, prejudiced at first sight, you should - according to my modest mind - avoid things that can upset people. One catches more flies with syrup than with vinegar.

[...]

When children need to swallow a bitter medicine, to free them of worms that hinder their growth, we don't say: "swallow this, stupid, because it's for your own good"; but we comfort them with sweet words and candy.

That's how scholars who want to elevate the people should act, rather than inveigh them with terms like grey, donkeys, etc.

You want to replace the word 'od' with 'animosity'. On page 128 I find FIAND for enemy. I would rather see you use 'fertilising force' - or a more appropriate term. The word animosity will cause animosity. [Ottema would later change 'animosity' in 'hatred'.] When one speaks to youths about love, they will fall in love. But when one speaks to them of war, they will seperate in groups and play soldier, to the great pleasure of despotism.

[...]

Having nothing else bothering me, I great you friendly, and am respectfully at your service,

C. Over de Linden.


### Posted 09 February 2012 - 05:07 PM
Abramelin, on 09 February 2012 - 11:55 AM, said:
Otharus, why do you think CodL would try to correct Ottema on the latter translating the word OD into 'animosity'?

Because 'animosity' in that fragment does not make sense.

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I mean to say: CodL resepcted Ottema and his erudition. He could instead have asked something like, "Are you sure OD means 'animosity'?

COdL respected Ottema, but didn't think the erudite doctor was omniscient.
Ottema had had a better education and social status than OdL, but he was less intelligent.

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The sentence you translated almost makes it look like CodL knew better then Ottema.

In this case, he did indeed.
He had put a big effort in educating himself.

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And "fertilizing force" is not just another, nicer, more positive, or better sounding expression for the word "animosity", it means something totally different.

Yes, Cornelis was not prejudiced by the Latin meaning.
He may have read or heard about the Saxon or Nordic meaning, or just used his common sense.

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Based on what I think - that CodL was one of the co-creators of the OLB - I'd say that CodL was the one who entered that word, OD, into the OLB using what he had read, and was now amazed an erudite person like Ottema translated it into 'animosity'. Like in "Hey, that was not what I meant!"

In that case he would also have mentioned the misplacing of the point between WRALDAS and OD.

He could not imagine that his ancestors would tell their children that life had originated out of animosity or hatred, which is a sick idea anyway.

He simply had an obvious interest in having the manuscripty of his ancestors translated as good as possible.

Your ideas about COdL are based on your ignorance about him. You should read his letters and diaries if you are serious about your theory.