26 December 2014

Forum #44 (5 oct. - 26 dec. 2014)

Posted 5 October 2014
A minor mistranslation by Ottema (1872), copied by Sandbach (1876)

twice - english
tvisvar - icelandic
tweemaal - dutch
zweimal - german
två gånger - swedish
to ganger - norse
to gange - danish

[090/01]
TWÍJA THRITICH DÉGA NÉI MÀM HIRA DÁD
[O/S p.125]
Tweeëndertigdagen na moeders dood
Two-and-thirty days after my mother's death

Translated correctly by Jensma (2006):
"Tweemaal dertig dagen na mem haar dood" (twice thirty = 60 days)

[107/17]
TWIJA TWILIF VPP.EN ETMELDE
[O/S p.147]
tweemaal twaalf in een etmaal
twenty-four [twice twelve = 24] go to a day

[209/32]
12 (TWILIF) MEL 100 (HVNDRED) ÀND TWIA.12 JÉR
[O/S p.165]
12 maal 100 en tweemaal 12 jaren (1224 jaar)
12 times 100 and twice 12 years (1224 years)

NOTE:
The Icelandic "tvisvar" (twice, two times) is interesting;
In OLB "WÁRA" is used many times in this way. Some examples:

[00b/03]
THVSAND WÁRA SÁ BIDD.IK TO JO
thousand times ...

[005/15]
NJVGUN WÁRA IS.ER TO HÉRTOGA [...] KÉREN
nine times ...

[006/02]
SJVGUN WÁRA SJVGUN JÉR
seven times seven (49) years

[011/27]
TÁNK TOWÍA. JÁ THRJU WARA
... yes, three times

### Posted 5 October 2014
View PostOthar Winis, on 5 October 2014 said:
The Icelandic "tvisvar" (twice, two times) is interesting;
In OLB "WÁRA" is used many times in this way.

We may be onto something interesting here.

Jensma, in his 2006 translation, for many words gave what he thought would have been the source (i.e. mostly: Oldfrisian dictionary) that would allegedly have been used by the assumed forgers.

For "WÁRA" he did not know a source and could only translate it because of the context in which the word was used (see page 71 of his 2006 translation).

Now we see a link to Icelandic...

### Posted 06 October 2014
View Postflashman7870 (Abramelin), on 23 September 2014 said:
Where are there descriptions for round cities on a hill WITH a baked brick tower in the center and longhouses coming like the spokes of the Jol Wheel dating from either the Bronze or early Iron Age?

Do there have to be remains of those for OLB to be authentic?

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So unless the Over de Linden family wrote a 'source' almanac at some point, this would imply the existence of manuscripts similar to the OLB up to the 19th century. Seems suspect we haven't found any of these.

The oldest known Frisian almanaks are from the 17th century. The date could also be based on oral tradition, but even it it was based on written sources, the fact that these are not publicly known does not prove a thing. Loads of important sources will be hiding in private collections.

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So Egypt is named for Gypsies rather then vice versa, the Med is named after a sea which only came into being in the 12th century, and the Black Sea was named after the Baltic sea at some point, the pillars of Hercules are named for those in Frisia etc etc?

I don't get your point. OLB does not claim any of that and neither do I.

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Helvetii wrote in a Greek script, NOT Jol script, which Caesar would not have been able to read. What else is there?

What is your point?

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But this is attested to in exactly one source.

So, if a spelling variety is found in one source only, this means that the source is fake? Are you serious?

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Only those excerpts of the first edition, though where I am in the old thread he has finished his second edition. And he is one geologist against many.

That someone is one against many does not mean he is wrong.

OLB p.19/7 (Sandbach p.31):
TILTHJU THÀT MÁRA.DÉL ALSA BLÍD KÀN DWÁLA 
SA THÀT MINRA.DÉL
since the majority maybe wrong as well 
as the minority

If you want to claim he is wrong, you will have to come with real arguments.

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I don't. I just dispute that the combination of the two into one word ever existed before the 1500s or whenever it was.

So you can't imagine that it existed. But we cannot be sure it didn't exist. That there is no other source (yet) is no proof.

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OKKE MY SON—
You must preserve these books with body and soul. They contain the history of all our people, as well as of our forefathers. Last year I saved them in the flood, as well as you and your mother; but they got wet
Pretty clear he is referring to an actual flood. But even if he's not, what recorded incursions were there circa 1243?

The year was 1256 and in that year the army of Holland invaded Westfriesland, trying to conquer it. They failed. Their king Willem II fell through the ice and died.
Also, like I said before, not all real floods were necessarily recorded.


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Why did Tolkien write Lord of the Rings (I know you hate the comparison but it's legitimate)? Why would Geoffrey of Monmouth write tales of Brutus and Corineus the Trojans and Etrusco-Trojans? Why would someone go through the effort to construct Dothraki?

It don't hate that comparison, but it fails. Tolkien lived from 1892 till 1973. He will have known the OLB and he may have been inspired by the idea. He did not work in secret, got money and honour for his work. I could give more arguments, but I am getting bored.


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Because the results were inconclusive?

Because the results were not what they wanted them to be. See my video about it:


### Posted 7 October 2014
flashman7870, on 23 September 2014 said:
OKKE MY SON [...] Last year I saved them in the flood...
Pretty clear he is referring to an actual flood [...]

Another example of a metaphorical flooding in similar context:
Early printing presses of 1600's flooding Europe with images of English Protestant missionaries and their families being ethnically cleansed by the native Irish. Images designed to bombard the psyche of the average European towards the popular mandate that 'something had to be done' about the barbaric Irish.
source (Thomas Sheridan Blog, this Oct. 6)


### Posted 8 October 2014
The Puzzler, on 7 October 2014:
Yes, but the OLB says the paper got wet and began to perish so one can only imagine he means a flood of water.

It does not even have to be an extended metaphor:
Imagine they lived in Westfriesland (area near Enkhuizen), which was 'flooded' by Dutch (Holland) invasions.
Hidde takes his wife, son and the manuscripts and they escape to Friesland (Leeuwarden).
On their way the paper may have gotten wet, for example during heavy rain.


### Posted 21 October 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 21 October 2014, said:
George RR Martin, Tolkien, Issac Asmiov, HG Wells and so many others have written hundreds of thousands of pages compared to the 230 or something in the OLB.

1. they got credit (money, honor) for their work
2. they worked within an existing tradition
3. their work didn't cause the sort of controversy that the OLB did
4. they didn't use paper that modern science (supposedly) can't date
5. they didnt use a language that could be the main ancestor of the NW-European languages

Multatuli (1820-1887) was elected to be the favorite author (of all time) by the Society of Dutch Literature.
He could not imagine that any of his contemporaries had created the OLB and believed in its authenticity.
Relevant Multatuli quotes in this video:


### Posted 24 October 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 24 October 2014 said:
why aren't there any temples to Nef Teunis in Tyre [...]

A counter-query will answer that.
Why aren't there any remains of Tanfana temples?

Priesthoods of all times tend to destroy or take over the temples of their predecessors.

That there are temples left of some discarded deities, doesn't mean that of all deities that were once worshipped temples must have been preserved.


### Posted 25 October 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 21 October 2014 said:
But now, I ask you; what is YOUR overwhelming evidence that the OLB isn't a Nationalist Fantasy?

Analogy:
If there is no convincing evidence that someone was murdered, it makes no sense to prove that he wasn't.

If you believe that OLB is fake, that means Over de Linden (and witnesses who had heard of it before the 1850s, all) must have lied.
I say he (they) can only be accused of that if there is good evidence for it.
There isn't.

Try to explain why modern techniques (supposedly) can't date the paper.
The answer is simple IMO:
Because the 'researchers' don't even allow for the possibility that it's older than 19th century after all.
Why?


### Posted 25 October 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 21 October 2014 said:
... Ancient Greek is Kekrops. ... when the OLB authors looked in their sources, they saw it spelled 'Cecrops', and, not knowing it was a hard C, spelled it 'Sekrops'.

Why is C sometimes pronounced S (when followed by e, i, y), sometimes as K? (And again different in CH?)
Maybe the people always said Syklope and Sékrops, or else when did they start to do this?

I don't know much of Greek and Latin Kaballah, but what I understand is that letters (and thus words) had numerical values.
Trained people imediately see those values and possible hidden meanings.

Perhaps Sékrops wanted his name to be spelled KEKROPS, to get a better kabbalistic value, while that didn't stop the people from saying SÉKROPS.
Similar thing may be the case with Cyclope.

We should be humble and accept there is very much we simple don't know yet.


###Posted 25 October 2014
View PostAbramelin, on 25 October 2014 said:
As far as I know, leeches do not make slaves and do not steal knowledge and do not live in dungeons and holes.

It only says that they suck blood.

aend hjara blod ut to sûgane, even as vampyra dva

Good find Van Gorp.
It could also just be wam-pier = buik-worm (belly-worm), that could be in this case a worm with a 'belly', a thick fat worm, in contrast to the regular slim worms:


 ### Posted 26 October 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 25 October 2014 said:
There are witnesses. "No one will believe it, they would roar with laughter"

If you would have re-read the whole thread - and not only your own posts - you should know this is nonsense,

as I wrote on 24 November 2011:

"Also, as I have pointed out several times before, the story of Floris was out of the THIRD hand, written down a century after it was supposed to have happened.
Floris stayed with his grandfather in the summer of 1869. Two years earlier, in 1867, Verwijs was already writing to state officials about the manuscript (being ca. 200 pages)."


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There are suspicious circumstances. Pre-numbered pages in de Linden's house, a use of commas in a peculiar way also used by de Linden.

There are plausible explanations for that.
OdL or one of his forefathers may have wanted to make the book complete again.
Also, these pages were 'discovered' long after the OdL had died. Someone else may have added them later.
We don't know if that use of commas is all that peculiar. I remember having seen that more often in 18th century notary documents.


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There are indications of conspiracy. One of the correspondances between Halbertsma and his brother tells us that Halbertsma's brother burned his letters as he requested.

People have many reasons to get rid of old letters.
I have seen better conspiracy theories than that.


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... You are guilty till proven innocent. ...

In nowaday USA maybe.
Not here in Europe.


### Posted 27 October 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 26 October 2014 said:
It is NOT a criminal court case, you are NOT assumed innocent till proven guilty.

Put aside if you are right, do you believe this is how it should be?


### Posted 27 October 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 25 October 2014 said:
And this is Scholarship/ Science, NOT a court. You are guilty till proven innocent. You are not supplied a public defender.

Of course it's not a court, but you use the term "guilty".

Guilty of what?
... of lying?
... of presenting a fake manuscript as being authentic?

Is it ethical to label someone a liar, when your only 'evidence' is, that you can't imagine he is telling the truth?

My position is that I feel bad about Over de Linden having been falsy accused of lying, as I believe in his innocence.
The alleged (obvious?) 'evidence' against him has not convinced me (nor has it many others).

In that sense I am indeed his "public defender".


###Posted 27 October 2014
Interesting new book, to be published next april:

How The Modern World Arose From The North Sea
By Michael Pye

Two fragments from article about this book:

... those Vikings, the Frisians before them and the Hanseatic merchants after them invented for themselves the conditions for modernity: international trade, money, credit, mathematics, law, the stock exchange, pensions and much else.
Mr Pye asks his readers to imagine a time before fixed national borders, when identity was not so much a matter of race, but of "where you were and where you last came from". The sea was a thoroughfare, quicker than rutted roads. It made it easy for "Scandinavians to be in York, Frisians in Ipswich, Saxons in London".
...
A central theme of this book is the re-invention of money and its role in the development of abstract, scientific and, eventually, secular thought. As a sea-trading people, the Frisians needed portable cash, not the gold and treasure of chiefs and kings, often hoarded and inert. They began minting silver coins, as a currency, an exchange.

Value became an idea, detached from the intrinsic nature of a thing. It could be calculated for different categories of goods, and more than that, it could be written down, arithmetically juggled, turned into ratios and equations. A new way of thinking was born, transactional and everyday, and yet with momentous philosophical implications.



###Posted 31 October 2014
I was asked to prove that OLB is authentic, that is: a 13th century copy of older originals.

Although I personally am convinced this is the case, I don't claim to have hard evidence for this.

What I do claim is that the reasons - thus far presented - to reject authenticity are invalid.

None of the so-called 'evidence' against authenticity is hard.

I also claim that it is suspect that even modern paper research has not resulted in a clear dating of the paper age.
And that it is a shame that the 'researchers' don't even want to consider the possibility that the paper is from the 13th century, as it looks exactly like Arab paper of that age (same waterline pattern).

Many people like certainty: it has to be either hoax or authentic. They can't stand the idea that something is just not fully clear (to them) yet.

To go from never having heard of the OLB to believing it's authentic is a big step.
To go from being convinced it's a hoax to accepting it's not might even be harder.

That is why I have taken the position of debunking the hoax theory first, the claims of people who say it's evidently fake (many of them not even having read it first).

My one hour video ("Saved from the Flood") is based on that idea.

I have given up 'discussing' with Abramelin, because in my perception he is not susceptible for reason.

Example: he keeps claiming "BEDRVM" can't be much older than the 16th century because there are no older written sources with a similar word. But BED(-A: verb) and RUM are both known to be much older, and there is no reason to exclude the possibility that the words were combined long before Shakespeare wrote "bedroom".

Some Aboriginal languages may be thousands of years old, yet only in the last century were they written down for the first time (as far as we know).

I can imagine if people have their reasons to doubt.
Doubt is good, but it's not evidence.


###Posted 31 October 2014
A personal 'coincidence' (no proof of anything!) just for whoever might be interested.

According to Hidde Oera Linda, the year 1256 CE equals 3449 after Átland ("the old land") sank.
That means 2007 was 4200 after the sinking of Átland (7 x 600 years or 6 x 700 years).

Making a (JOL-) wheel with 700-year spokes, leaving out 'year zero':
2194 BCE - spoke 1
1494 BCE - spoke 2
0794 BCE - spoke 3
0094 BCE - spoke 4
0607 CE - spoke 5
1307 CE - spoke 6 *
2007 CE - spoke '7' or full circle = spoke 1 again

In 2007 I had a near-death experience that radically changed my life (for the better).
Until 2009 I had only vaguely heard about the OLB, not knowing any detail nor opinion about it.

* 1307 CE: October 13 (Friday the 13th, at dawn) – All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of King Philip IV, to be later tortured into "confessing" heresy.

###Posted 31 October 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 31 October 2014 said:
It's not impossible, but it seems unlikely.

Good, that one is settled then.
Any hard evidence against authenticity left?

###Posted 31 October 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 31 October 2014 said:
One cannot sail from Greece to Kashmyr in the Bronze Age, as the Sinai was not at that time water, as far as I know.

Dr. Ottema already answered that, as translated by Sandbach (1876, p.xiii-xiv of Introduction):


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The establishment of the colonists in the Punjab in 1551 before Christ, and their journey thither, we find fully described in Adela's book; and with the mention of one most remarkable circumstance, namely, that the Frisian mariners sailed through the strait which in those times still ran into the Red Sea.
In Strabo, book i. pages 38 and 50, it appears that Eratosthenes was acquainted with the existence of the strait, of which the later geographers make no mention. It existed still in the time of Moses (Exodus xiv. 2), for he encamped at Pi-ha-chiroht, the "mouth of the strait." Moreover, Strabo mentions that Sesostris made an attempt to cut through the isthmus, but that he was not able to accomplish it. That in very remote times the sea really did flow through is proved by the result of the geological investigations on the isthmus made by the Suez Canal Commission, of which M. Renaud presented a report to the Academy of Sciences on the 19th June 1856.
etc.

###Posted 1 November 2014
View PostVan Gorp, on 31 October 201 said:
Freyer seems to me "Vrijer" (lover, vrij-en, friend)

... or frère (french for brother)?

###Posted 1 November 2014
View PostThe Puzzler, on 1 November 2014 said:
frolic (...)
(...) Merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
(...) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.

Interesting.
The dutch and german equivalents would be:
dutch: vrouwelijk - feminine, female
german: fraulich - womanly, womanlike



###Posted 11 November 2014
QVAÞ = KÉTH ==> see separate post


###Posted 11 November 2014
View PostVan Gorp, on 9 November 2014 said:
Am i interpreting correctly that Magy, Finns and Finda were sitting in back part of Scandinavia and Twiskland at latest in 180 after Aldland sank.
When well established were lurking for iron weapons,
which the Fryans only started to sell 1300 years later
and the gradually takeover of Denmark was fulfilled within 100 years?

Good question VG. I welcome more discussion about the actual content of the OLB, but don't have an answer to this at the moment.


###Posted 11 November 2014
A remarkable contradiction (or did this law change?):

[041/14] Minno's laws (SETMA and DOMAR) as copied at one of the citadels ca. 600 BCE
3. JAHWÉDER JONG KERDEL ÁCH EN BRUD TO SÉKA

ÀND IS ER FIF ÀND TWINTICH SA ÁCHTER EN WIF TO HÀVA.
3. Every young man ought to seek a bride

and is he five-and-twenty, he ought to have a wife.
[168/21] from short fragment by Béden, ca. 240 BCE?
KONE.RÉD MIN ÉM IS NIMMER BOSTIGJATH

ÀND ALSA BERNLÁS STURVEN.
Koneréd my uncle never got married

and thus died childless.

###Posted 11 November 2014
View PostOthar Winis, on 11 November 2014 said:
[041/14] Minno's laws (SETMA and DOMAR) as copied at one of the citadels ca. 600 BCE
3. JAHWÉDER JONG KERDEL ÁCH EN BRUD TO SÉKA
ÀND IS ER FIF ÀND TWINTICH SA ÁCHTER EN WIF TO HÀVA.
3. Every young man ought to seek a bride
and is he five-and-twenty, he ought to have a wife.

The fragment continues thus:

4. IS HWA FIF ÀND TVINTICH ÀND HETH ER NÉN ÉNGÁ

SÁ ACH EK MAN HIM UT SIN HUS TO WÉRANE.

THA KNÁPA ACHON HIN TE FORMYDA.

NIMTH ER THÀN NACH NÉN ÉNGÁ

SA MOT MÀN HIN DÁD SÉZA TILTHJU HI UT OF LANDE BRÛDE

ÀND HIR NÉN ÀRGENESE NÉVA NE MÉI.
Sandbach's liberal translation:
4. If a young man is not married at five-and-twenty,

he must be driven from his [every] home,

and the younger men must avoid him.

If then he [still] will not marry,

he must be declared dead, and leave the country,

so that he may not give offence.
So according to that law, it's more serious than just not fulfilling one's duty.
And this uncle Koneréd apparently still had an honorable position.



###Posted 12 November 2014
View Postflashman7870, on 12 November 2014 said:
... making a 'lost' part of the OLB.

If the 190 pages would be of 19th century fabrication, it should be relatively easy to create only 1 page now, as we have much more knowledge and techniques at our disposal.
Yet no one has ever dared to even try it.
That is because it is simply too difficult.
If it is too difficult now, it was impossible in the 19th century.


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... the flaws of the Fryans.

Yes, several examples of that could be given.
OLB describes a civilisation in decline.


###Posted 22 November 2014
When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl [1914-2002] asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers. The Incas described these "white gods" as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the "morning of time" and taught the Incas' primitive forefathers architecture as well as manners and customs.  They were unlike other Native Americans in that they had "white skins and long beards" and were taller than the Incas.

The Incas said that the "white gods" had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled westward across the Pacific. After they had left, the Incas themselves took over power in the country.
atlanteangardens/quetzalcoatl-kukulkan-viracocha-votan

OLB translation Sandbach (1876), p.81: Inka thought that perchance some high-lying part of Atland might remain as an island, where he and his people might live in peace. As the two cousins could not agree, Teunis planted a red flag on the shore, and Inka a blue flag. Every man could choose which he pleased, and to their astonishment the greater part of the Finns and Magyars followed Inka, who had objected to serve the kings of Finda's people. When they had counted the people and divided the ships accordingly, the fleet separated. We shall hear of Teunis afterwards, but nothing more of Inka.



###Posted 24 November 2014
A translation error by Ottema (1872), translated by Sandbach (1876).
Correction in bold green.
[original manuscript p. 38, line 8]
HJRA BYLDNESE STÀLDON HJA VPPA HJARA ÀLTÀRUM 

JEFTHA HJA VRSELLADE.T ANDA DVMA MÀNNISKA.
HJA KÉTHON ALLERWÉIKES RÉDJÉVINGA.

THÉR HJU NIMMER JÉVEN HÉDE.
ÀND TÀLADON WONDERA.
THÉR HJU NA DÉN HÉDE.

[Ottema p.55]
Zij stelden haar beeld op hunne altaren, 

zij verkondigden of verkochten aan de domme menschen allerwegen raadgevingen 
of ze verkochten het aan de domme mensen. 
Ze verkondigden allerwegen (overal) raadgevingen,
die zij nimmer gegeven had,
en vertelden wonderen
die zij nooit gedaan had.
[Sandbach p.55]
They erected statues to her on all their altars, 

they announced and sold to the simple people advice  
or sold them to the simple people. 
They announced ('allways'; everywhere) advice,
that she had never given,
and related miracles
that she had never performed.



###Posted 4 December 2014
In the following quotes, Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) referred to WR.ALDA
==> see separate post


###Posted 12 December 2014
View PostPassing Time (NO-ID-EA), on 11 December 2014 said:
do you guys know where else i can find all the pages , so i can still read it in it's original presentation.

The whole original manuscript is here: http://aldfryas.blog...y-aldfryas.html
Scroll down a bit for a list of links (8a, 4b, etc).



###Posted 12 December 2014
View PostOthar Winis, on 14 August 2014 said:
Arthur Hübner (1885-1937), a nazi-linguist, wrote in 1934 ("Herman Wirth und die Ura-Linda-chronik"), translated: "Not only is the OLB democratic, führer- [Hitler-] inimical, and pacifistic in its foundations, as a whole it is a worthless fabrication ["without juice and power"]."
Menno ter Braak (1902-1940), a dutch author and anti-Fascist, wrote in the same year ("Arthur Hübner contra Herman Wirth"), translated: "The OLB should be added to the program of secondary education, in a good translation and with pedagogic comments, to educate the youth!"

Significant:
In a dutch radio interview (12 December 2004), Dr. Goffe Jensma claims (at 1:47:00) that the content of the OLB is "racist".
http://www.vpro.nl/i...PRO_207968.html


###Posted 26 December 2014
A jolly Yule to all!
Let's try to rekindle the discussion in the new year.

I have been busy with becoming a father and currently also with finding a new home for my family. After that my plan is to create a new edition of the OLB with fascimile, transcription, translation, lots of footnotes and discussion. But I keep an eye on this thread and if something serious and interesting is posted, I will join again.

05 December 2014

Himmler referring to Wralda

Himmler speaking at Heydrich's funeral, 9 June 1942.

In the following quotes, Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) referred to WR.ALDA, the supreme 'deity' of the OLB.

If indeed he (and through him the SS) was inspired by the OLB concept of a higher power, it would be understandable if established authorities rather have the OLB (a.k.a. 'Himmler's Bible') remain unknown to the general public.

(Original german fragments below, if available.)

1 From website, source and date unknown:
"Who observes and understands the process of selection in nature, is at the core a believer (in a higher power). He is a believer, because he knows there is an endlessly wise sovereignty above us. The ancient Germans had a beautiful expression for that: Waralda; the most ancient."

2 From website, source and date unknown:
"Atheism is the only world, or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS [...] I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are."

3 In speech at funeral of Heydrich (9 june 1942):
"Today at Heydrich's funeral I intentionally expressed in my oration from my deepest conviction a belief in God, a belief in fate, in the ancient one as I called him - that is the old Germanic word:  Wralda."
Longer fragment here

4 In speech to senior naval officers (1943):
"... above us is an infinite wisdom. The Teutons had a beautiful expression for it: Waralda, the ancient. We may dispute how it can be revered and how in earthly terms it can be broken down into cults and varieties."
Source: "Heinrich Himmler: A Life" by Peter Longerich, page 266

5 In last letter to his family (17 april 1945):
"The Most-Ancient ('Uralte'; overold-one) will protect us and particularly the brave/good German people, and not let us perish."
Comment on german website "Focus.de":
"With <Uralte> obviously <Waralda> was ment. Apparently that was how followers of the pseudoreligious <black order> of the SS referred to God - allegedly, germanic ancestors had also worshiped the divine power as <Waralda>."

- - - Original german fragments

1 "Derjeneige, der den Ausleseprozeß in der Natur beobachte und versteht, ist im tiefsten Grunde gläubig. Er ist gläubig, weil er eine unendlich weise Hoheit über uns weiß. Die Germanen hatten einen sehr schönen Ausdruck dafür: Waralda, das ist das Uralte."

3 "Ich habe heute an dem Begräbnistag von Heydrich in meiner Rede mit voller Absicht meine tiefste innere Überzeugung eines Glaubens an Gott, eines Glaubens an das Schicksal, an den Uralten, wie ich ihn nannte – das ist das alte germanische Wort: Wralda – ausgesprochen."

5 "Der Uralte wird uns und besonders das brave deutsche Volk behüten und uns nicht untergehen lassen."
Comment focus.de:
"Mit dem <Uralten> ist offenbar <Waralda> gemeint. So bezeichneten den Angaben zufolge Anhänger des pseudoreligiösen <schwarzen Ordens> der SS Gott – angeblich hätten germanische Vorfahren die göttliche Kraft ebenfalls als <Waralda> verehrt."


 "Uralte" in Himmler's handwriting;
fragment from his last known letter dated April 17, 1945.

See earlier posts:
'Himmler's Bible' ~ German sources
Himmler's deepest conviction

26 November 2014

KÉTHA - to speak (solemnly) ~ a lost word

Juliana, queen of the Netherlands, US Congress, 3 April 1952
KÉTHA 
- (plechtig) spreken, het woord voeren, voordragen, verkondigen, benoemen, enz.
- speak (solemnly), declaim, proclaim, declare, recite, name, call, etc.

quethan - oldsaxon
queden, quedan, keden, koden - oldgerman
kwethan, queden - olddutch
cweðan, quethen, queden, (past tense:) quoth - oldenglish
quetha - oldfrisian

kveða - oldnorse (Edda: "oþinn qvaþ" - Odin spoke)
kväda - swedish (more modern: yttra, säga, tala, mäla, sjunga)
qiþan - gothic

On http://gtb.inl.nl (a.o.): 
kwethan: zeggen, spreken, betekenen, luiden, voorschrijven, bespreken, zegenen
kwethen: goed, positief spreken; aardige dingen zeggen; begroeten 

quedden: aanspreken, groeten

Oldfrisian dictionaries

Wiarda (1786)
ketha, keda - laden, vorladen, öffentlich bekannt machen, publiciren
vtkethen - aussprechen, auserkennen
kethen - der Ausspruch
urketha - öffentlich verkündigen
kester, kedde, keeder - ein Gerichtsdiener, der die Parteien vorladete, und die gerichtliche Befehle und Verordnungen kund oder bekannt machte

Hettema (1832)
ketha, keetje - dagvaarden, openlijk verkondigen
kethe - uitspraak
kether - een regter, die een vonnis uitspreekt

Richthofen (1840)
ketha, keda - künden, verkünden, ansagen
kethe, kede - die Kunde, das Verkünden
kethene - Verkündung, bekanntmachung
kethere - der Verkünder, eine Gerichtsperson
kethich, kettich - kundig
kethinge, kedinge - Bekanntmachung

Some related (similar) words in OLB:
SPRÉKA - to speak
SEZA, SEGA - to say
NÔMA - to name, call
AVBÉRA - to reveal
RÉDA - to advise, counsel, rede

verb:
(numbers refer to the fragments below)
 

KÉTHA (spreken/ het woord voeren/ verkondigen) - 15,17,26
ÛTKÉTHA ( ,, ) - 44

(ÀNDE) KÉTH (en sprak/ verkondigde) - 1,5,11,12,16,18,21,23,27,34
(ÀND) KÉTHE ( ,, ) - 20,29,43
(ÀND) KÉTHA ( ,, ) - 41
(HI, HJU) KÉTH (spreekt/ openbaart) - 4
KÉTH (gebiedende wijs: verkondigt/ openbaart) - 24

(HJA HÀVE) KÉTH (gesproken/ verkondigd/ openbaard) - 19

(HJA) KÉTHON (spraken/ verkondigden/ beweerden) - 2,7,22,32,33,35,36,38ab,39
,, UT-/ ÛTKÉTHON ( ,, ) - 9,45
,, KÉTHON UT (,,/ verklaarden/ riepen uit) - 10

(IS) KÉTHEN (genoemd/ genaamd) - 13,31,40,42
(WÀRTH) KÉTHEN (verkondigd/ gesproken) - 37

(ORDÉL) UT TO KÉTHANDE (uit te spreken) - 3
UT TO KÉTHANE (verkondigend/ bewerend) - 6
TO KÉTHANDE ( ,, ) - 25,28

ÛT.E.KÉTH (uitgeroepen/ benoemd/ verklaard) - 14
ÛTEKÉTH (uitgesproken (v.e. klank)) - 30

noun:

WANKÉTHINGA (wanbeweringen, drogredenen, ?) - 8

combinations:

SPREK/ SPRÉK (ÀNDE) KÉTH - 16,21,27,34
LÉR (ÀND) KÉTH - 24

always and everywhere:

(KÉTHE) ALLER.WÉIKES - 6,7,25,33,44,45
(KÉTHE) WR.AL ÀND ALLER.WÉIKES - 26
(KÉTHE) ALLERWÉIKES ÀND TO ALRAMÀNNALIK - 38a
(KÉTHE) AL.OMME - 29
(KÉTHE) VPPA ALLE MARKUM ÀND BINNA ALLE MÉIDUM - 43
IMMER (TO KÉTHANDE) - 28


Expression: "she opened her lips and spoke"
HJU ÉPENDE HJRA WÉRA ÀNDE KÉTH - 11,18,23

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Fragments with translations by Ottema and Sandbach (the latter sometimes being very liberal); these show how the word often got lost in translation (examples in purple):



1 [001/16]
THA TO THA LESTA FRÉGE ÁDELA THÀT WIRD. ÀNDE KÉTH
[O-S p.5]
Toen ten laatste vroeg Adela het woord, en sprak
Thereupon Adele, demanded to be heard ['asked (for) the word'], and said

2 [003/09]
THÁ KLIVADON HJA THA HÉRTOGA ÀND ÉTHELINGA AN BORD ÀND KÉTHON
[O-S p.7]
klampten zij de Hertogen en Edelingen aan boord en zeiden

they persuaded the dukes and nobles

3 [033/01]
NÉI THISSE ÉWA ACHAT THA RJUCHTERA HJARA ORDÉL UT TO KÉTHANDE
[O-S p.49]
Naar deze wetten behooren de rechteren hun oordeel uit te spreken

The judges must pronounce their decisions according to these laws 

4 [033/04]
THÉR ORDÉLTH MÀN NÉI THA SIN THÉR WR.ALDA.S GÁST AN VS KÉTH
[O-S p.49]
daar oordeelt men naar den zin, dien Wraldas geest in ons spreekt
where judgment shall be pronounced in accordance with
the inspiration of Wr-alda's spirit


5 [037/11]
THÁ STAND HEL.LÉNJA VP FON HIRA SÉTEL ÀNDE KÉTH
[O-S p.55]
Toen stond Hellenia op van haren zetel en sprak
Then Hellenia stood up and said

6 [037/30]
GVNGON HJA ALLERWÉIKE.S. [...] UT TO KÉTHANE
[O-S p.55]
gingen zij allerwegen [...] uitroepen
they went all about [...] proclaiming

7 [038/10]
HJA KÉTHON ALLERWÉIKES RÉDJÉVINGA
[O-S p.55]
zij verkondigden [-] allerwegen raadgevingen
they announced [-] advice ['allways'; everywhere]

 
8 [038/15]
THRVCH WANKÉTHINGA WISTON HJA ALLE TO WISA ÀND TO VRBRUDA
[O-S p.55]
door listen en drogredenen wisten zij alles te bewijzen en te verbreiden [verbruien]
and by craft and subtlety were able to explain
and spread them around

[with fallacies they were able to prove and distort them all (i.e. all laws)
]



9 [038/28]
HJARA MVLA WÉRON NAVT OWERS AS THA HROPAR.
HWÉRTHRVCH THA PRESTERA HJARA GÉRTA UTKÉTHON

[O-S p.57]
hare monden waren niet anders dan de roepers,
waardoor de priesters hunne begeerten uitspraken 

was but the repetition of the behests of the priests
 

10 [039/01]
THA PRESTERA [...] KÉTHON VS BY RA FOLK AS VNFRÁNA UT
[O-S p.57]
de priesters [...] kreten ons bij het volk als onheilig uit
the priests [...] accused us before the people of being unholy

11 [064/08]
THA [...] ÉPENDE HJU HIRA WÉRA ÀND KÉTH
[O-S p.91]
Toen [...] opende zij hare lippen en sprak
When [...] she opened her lips and said

12 [067/18]
NV KÉM KÀLTA ÀNDE KÉTH
[O-S p.95]
nu kwam Kalta en sprak
now came Kalta and said

13 [070/06]
THAT LAND [...] THAT THRVCH THA INHÉMAR ATTIKA IS KÉTHEN
[O-S p.99]
dat land [...] dat door de inwoners Attika genoemd is
the country which is called by the inhabitants Attica

 
14 [072/10]
HÀVON HJA HEL.LÉNJA TO.NE GODENE ÛT.E.KÉTH
[O-S p.101]
hebben zij Hellenia tot eene Godin uitgeroepen
they deified Hellenia

15 [079/04]
THÉR SKIL EN SÉ.MOMMA KÉTHA
[O-S p.109]
daar zal een zeegedrocht spreken
there is a sea-monster going to speak

16 [079/19]
HJA SPREK ÀNDE KÉTH
[O-S p.111]
zij sprak zeggende
She said

17 [081/23]
THA SA HVAM SA THÉR VR KÉTHA WILDE
[O-S p.113]
Doch zoodra iemand daarover spreken wilde
but if any one attempted to speak about it

18 [083/18]
TO LÔNGA LESTA ÉPENDE HJU HJRA WÉRA ÀNDE KÉTH
[O-S p.115]
Ten langen laatste opende zij hare lippen, en sprak
but at last she opened her lips, and said

19 [083/31]
HWAT HJA KÉTH HÀVE
[O-S p.115]
wat zij verkondigd hebben
what they have proclaimed

20 [084/30]
FRÁNA [...] SACH IM STAR AN ÀND KÉTHE
[O-S p.117]
Frana [...] zag hem strak aan en sprak
Frana [...] stared at him, and said

21 [088/12]
SÁ SPREK ÀND KÉTH ADELA
[O-S p.123]
Zoo sprak en redeneerde Adela
Thus spoke and reasoned Adela

 
22 [089/08]
SKÉDER EN SÉKE THÉR FÉLON STÁTHA TROF
ÀND HÉDE MÀN THJU RÉD ÉNER FÁM IN WNNEN
KÉTHON ALLE ÔTHERA THAT HJU SPROKEN HÉDE
TO FÉRE FON HJRA ÀJNE STÁT.

[O-S p.125]
Geschiedde er eene zaak, die vele staten betrof,
en had men de raad van eene maagd ingewonnen,
dan riepen [beweerden] alle andere, dat zij gesproken had
ten voordeele van haar eigen staat.
If any case happened which concerned several states,
and one maid had been consulted,
the rest all exclaimed that she had spoken
only in the interest of her own state.


23 [091/27]
THA [...] ÉPENDE HJU HJRA FALXA WÉRA ANDE KÉTH

[O-S p.127]
Toen [...] opende zij hare valsche lippen en sprak
When [...] she opened her false lips and said

24 [098/06]
LÉR ÀND KÉTH TO THA FOLKUM
[O-S p.137]
Leer en verkondig aan de volken
Learn and announce to the people

25 [100/24]
SA HÀVON HJA [...] FALXA DROCHTNE.ESKÉPEN.
TO KÉTHANDE ALLER WÉIKES
THÀT THISSA DROCHTNE WRALDA ESKÉPEN HÀVE.

[O-S p.139]
zoo hebben [...] valsche goden geschapen,
en verkondigen allerwege
dat deze afgoden de wereld geschapen hebben
they proclaim [...] false gods,
and declare everywhere
that these idols created the world


26 [103/03]
SÁ WILLATH WY KÉTHA WR.AL ÀND ALLER.WÉIKES
[O-S p.143]
zoo willen wij verkondigen overal en allerwege
we proclaim everywhere

27 [104/05]
FORTH SPRÉK HJU ÀNDE KÉTH
[O-S p.143]
Verder sprak zij en zeide
She continued

28 [114/11]
IN VSA BÛRT STROMPELE EN ÔLD.FÁMKE
[...] IMMER TO KÉTHANDE VR ÀRGE TID

[O-S p.157]
In onze buurt strompelde een oud vrouwtje
[...] altijd roepende over de booze tijd
In our neighbourhood a little old woman tottered
[...] always calling out about the bad times


29 [131/05]
THJU FÁM KÉTHE AL OMME
[O-S p.179]
eene maagd, die alom uitriep [die fám verkondigde alom]
one maiden who cried everywhere [that maiden proclaimed everywhere]

30 [132/20]
HWÉRI NAVT NÉSA MOT WÀRTH ER ÛTEKÉTH
[O-S p.181]
waar die niet wezen moet, wordt zij uitgesproken
and put [pronounce] it where it ought not to be

31 [136/12]
EN DEL THÉR IS KÉTHEN KASAMÍR
[O-S p.185]
eene vlakte die geheeten is Kasamyr
a plain called Kasamyr

32 [138/22]
SINA FRIUNDA WÁRADON SINE LÉRE
ÀND KÉTHON HWÉR ET ÁRON FVNDE

[O-S p.189]
zijne vrienden bewaarden zijne leer
en verkondigden die, waar zij ooren vond
his friends preserved his teaching,
and spread it wherever they found listeners [ears]


33 [139/17]
KÉTHON HJA ALLERWÉIKES
[O-S p.189]
verkondigden zij allerwegen
they announced everywhere

34 [145/12]
SPREK.I ÀNDE KÉTH
[O-S p.197]
sprak hij en zeide
he said

35 [152/02]
THÉRVMBE NE KÉTHON HJA NÉN GOD FON HIM[O-S p.205]
daarom spraken zij geen goed van hem
therefore they said no good of him

36 [152/11]
FORTH KÉTHON HJA
[O-S p.207]
Verder spraken zij
Further they said

 
37 [152/27]
ALDULKERA TÁLUM WÀRTH THRVCH THA JONGA FÁMNA KÉTHEN
[O-S p.207]
Al zulke praatjes werden door de jonge maagden gehouden [verkondigd]
All such nonsense the young maidens talked

38 [152/30]
HJA KÉTHON ALLERWÉIKES ÀND TO ALRAMÀNNALIK. FRISO KÉTHON HJA ...[O-S p.207]
Zij spraken allerwegen en tot iedereen: Friso, zoo spraken zij, ...
They said always and to every one: Friso ...
 

39 [154/08]
THA JONGA FÁMNA KÉTHON SINA LOVE (* zie onderaan)
[O-S p.209]
de jonge maagden spraken zijn lof
the young maidens spoke in his praise

40 [155/14]
FONUT.ÉRE STÁTHA THÉR IS KÉTHEN SVÔBA.LÁND
[O-S p.209]
uit de staat die genoemd is Suobaland
from the state of [that is called] Suobaland

41 [196/22]
GVNG.ER VPPEN VPSTAL STONDA. ÀND KÉTHA HLÛD
[O-S p.237]
ging hij op een gestoelte staan en sprak luidde
he mounted a throne and spoke aloud

42 [200/22]
THÉRE BURCH THÉR IS KÉTHEN KÉRENÀK
[O-S p.241]
de burgt, die geheeten is Kerenak
the citadel, which is called Kerenac

 
43 [202/25]
THES DÉIS KÉTHE HJU VPPA ALLE MARKUM 

ÀND BINNA ALLE MÉIDUM
[O-S p.243]
bij dag sprak zij op alle markten 

en in alle gezelschappen
by day she made speeches in all the markets 

and in all the assemblies

44 [204/08]
FORTH GVNG HJU [...] ALLERWÉIKES THÀT SELVA ÛTKÉTHA
[O-S p.245]
Voorts ging zij [...] om allerwege dat zelfde te verkondigen
She proceeded [...] in order always to repeat [proclaim] the same thing

45 [205/28]
PRONT.LIK GVNG TO ÀND SAND
ALLERWÉIKES BODON THÉR ÛTKÉTHON

[O-S p.247]
Prontlik ging heen en zond
allerwege boden, die verkondigden
Prontlik sent out
messengers in all directions, who proclaimed


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* The combination love/ lof quethan is well known from medieval texts, for example:

So sal ic Louan quithan namin thinin an uuerolt uuerldis that ik geue geheita mina fan dage an dage. (Nederrijn 10th century, copy ca. 1600)

Al ertha bede thi in singe thi, lof quethe namin thinin. (Nederrijn 10th century, copy 18th century)


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Note: in the Westfrisian dictionary by Jan Pannekeet (1984):
kweeste - Wijze van vrijen die vooral in Noord-Holland in gebruik is geweest. De vrijer kwam 's avonds of 's nachts, terwijl deuren en vensters open stonden, op het bed van het meisje zitten of liggen. Het woord zou lett. 'praten' betekenen [...]
This way of testing lovers also existed in German Eastfriesland, as I know from this song in the Eastfrisian dialect: