German version video

Alle 9 Teile zusammen (aktualisiert Mai 2018): 

Teile:00:10 - 1a) Eine Familientradition
02:58 - 1b) Ein Studentenwitz?
09:20 - 2a) Dechiffrierungsschlüssel
14:50 - 2b) Barbarische Ziffern
22:00 - 2c) Radförmige Buchstaben
31:20 - 2d) Mittwinter Julfest
31:45 - 3) Mittelalterliches Papier
42:55 - 4a) Hinters Licht geführt
1:00:23 - 4b) Ur-Rassismus

alte Englische video source Liste hier

Norse version video

Translated by Hans Olav Lien (1954–2016)

Alle 9 deler:

deler:00:14 - 1a) Av frisisk herkomst
03:02 - 1b) En seriøs behandling
09:18 - 2a) Tolkningsnøkkel
14:46 - 2b) Barbariske tall
21:50 - 2c) Hjulformede bokstaver
31:35 - 2d) God hjul
34:00 - 3) Papirundersøkelser
42:40 - 4a) Mystiske Friesland
1:00:06 - 4b) Et veldig rasistisk innhold 

old video source list here

Video source list

Part 1-4a source list for English (old) version.

In the new versions some music is different; source list need an update.

###part 1a: Jensma about Oera Linda

0:10 my subtitles; original video from YT-channel "madneetsnahoj" (Tresoar): link

###part 1b: Multatuli, Himalayas

Audio:

1) 03:00 Love's Illusion - Music From the Montpellier Codex 13th Century; Motet 311 (Se chante/Bien doi amer/Et Sperabit); 2:06 min.

2) 05:50 La Clemenza di Tito, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Schreier, Varady, Mathis, Berganza, Böhm, Staatskapelle Dresden, track 1/10; 1:20 min.

3) 07:15 Love's Illusion - Music From the Montpellier Codex 13th Century; Motet 223 (Quant yver la bise ameine/In Seculum); 1:18 min.

02:55 Tresoar in Leeuwarden: Google Maps

03:00 Photo Multatuli: link

03:10 Author top 3: Digital Source for Dutch Literature (dnbl.org): link

03:30 Translated by me from: "Multatuli, Brieven. Deel 9. Te Wiesbaden 1870-1875" (ed. Mimi Douwes Dekker). W. Versluys, Amsterdam 1895; page 106: link

03:40 Translated by me from: Idem, "Deel 10. Laatste periode", Amsterdam 1896, page 57-58: link

04:30 Translated by me from: "Multatuli, Volledige Werken, XVII", 58 (brief aan P.A. Tiele, 22 oktober 1875), as quoted by Jensma, 2004 "De Gemaskerde God", p.169/ p.404 note 83

05:00 GPTV, Het Depot (my subtitles): link (uploaded 23 oct 2008)

05:40 Photo Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands; from web

05:50 Facsimile pages OLB (edited with MS Paint and Windows Live Photo Gallery; my transcription and translation) from: link

06:25 William R. Sandbach (1876) "The Oera Linda Book"; p.221; link

06:30 J.G. Ottema (1872) "Thet Oera Linda Bok"; p.221; link

06:50 J.F. Overwijn (1941) "Thàt Vvra Linda Bok"; from PDF (later edition) on harddisk, not found back on web; my translation

06:55 G. Jensma (2006) "Het Oera Linda-boek"; p.397; my translation

07:05 "Alt friesisches Wörterbuch" (1786) Tileman Dothias Wiarda; link

07:15 Photo Himalayas from web

07:30 G. Jensma (2004) "De Gemaskerde God - François Haverschmidt en het Oera Linda-boek"

08:05 Specifically since the publication by J.B. Vinckers (1876) "De onechtheid van het Oera Linda-Bôk, aangetoond uit de wartaal waarin het is geschreven"

###part 2a: Standskrift, Runskrift

Audio:

08:35 Bach complete edition CD1 Brandenburger Concerto 1-3; track 9; 0:21 min.

09:10 Dalakopa, Norwegian Songs & Dances; La Folia, Polska; 2:20 min. 

 Ari Vardi, Children's Corner; First Sorrow; Schumann; 2:13 min.

08:35 Photo saved from: www.oeralindaboek.nl

08:55 GPTV, Het Depot (my subtitles): link (uploaded 23 oct 2008)

09:10 www.oeralindaboek.nl

09:20 (my translations) link

10:30 link

11:30 Facsimile pages OLB (edited with MS Paint; my transcription and translation) from: link

11:50 Image "Crodo" taken from Elias Schedius (1728) De Diis Germanis; link

11:55 Orotalt etc. see: link (and following posts)

11:55 Tanfanae see: link (and next part 2b)

11:55 Beguines see: link

###part 2b: Numerals, Barbarians

Audio:

13:45 Bingen - Celestial Harmonies - Responsories and Antiphons; Hildegard von Bingen; O vos imitatores; 6:34 min.

14:10 see 2a) at 6:22 min

14:30 Arab numerals and names: wiki

14:55 Indian numerals and names: wiki

15:05 Comparing table: wiki

15:40 Map languages from web, number-names Google Translate

16:55 Map Roman Marsi slaughter: wiki

16:45 Tacitus Annales I, 50-51; english translation: link ; Latin original text: link

18:30 Mirrorred image; "Germanic warriors" as depicted in Philipp Clüver's Germania Antiqua (1616); source: wiki

18:50 Amazigh young lady, photo from web

19:15 Alhambra Palace, photo from web

19:45 Murphy, James Cavanah (1815) "The Arabian antiquities of Spain"; link ; also see this post: link

###part 2c: Deciphering Key

Audio:

20:20 Evelyn Huber, Somerville Samba; Glenlivet; 3:27 min.

23:50 Johann Sebastian Bach (compl.ed. CD 157); Prelude and Fugue for organ in C minor, BWV 546: Fugue; 5:27 min.

20:20 Cows by sunrise, photo from web

21:10 picture and info from Apuleius, Metamorphoses (used various language-versions); wiki

21:40 compilation of images by me, all from web

22:05 adapted translation, based on those by Kenney (1998) and Adlington (1566), see link (post #2067); full text see link and: wiki

22:30 Map Gaul and vicinity, 1st century BC; from web

22:40 See wiki

22:50 Gallic Wars Book 6 (53 B.C.E.) 6:14; adapted translation, based on McDevitte and Bohn (1869); link

22:50 two druids (reproduction of original from 1719 by Bernard de Montfaucon) "History of British costume" (1836)

23:15 Druïde; "Hoogduitsche Outheden" (1714) Jacob v. Royen

23:30 Taranis with wheel and thunderbolt, bronze, Roman Gaul, Place of discovery: Le Châtelet de Gourzon; Musée d'Archéologie nationale (France)

23:50 see 2a at 9:20

24:05 made by me with MS Paint from page 46 of manuscript

25:05 Cyrillic "tsche": wiki

25:30 Ingwaz rune and phonetic sign: wiki

26:05 Meroitic Qa: wiki

26:20 About Greek alphabet variety: wiki

26:55 see 2a at 8:55

27:05 see 2a at 9:20

27:15 see 2a at 10:30

27:25 photo of German enciphering (Enigma) machine, as used in WWII

28:35 the Runskrift F was improved by me, as in the original manuscript it was slightly damaged and unclear

28:50 drawing found on web, based on the film "The Name of the Rose" (1986) with Sean Connery

29:05 inspired by "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1962) Thomas Kuhn; link

29:15 for 'next' video about paper age, see 31:45

###part 2d: Yule and Edible Letters

Audio:

29:25 'O Kerstnacht schoner dan de dagen' harpgitaar (schramml/ kontra gitarre) by Harald Koll; link (with many thanks!)

29:20 girl in traditional dutch folk costume eating chocolate A

29:45 J.G. Ottema (1872) first edition of OLB (my translation): link

30:15 (Jul 1968, that was my birth-day, 1:00 AM, Wijdenes)

30:40 Agonda, south-Goa; photo by me (dec. 2010)

31:00 Google Translate and Wikipedia, map: link

31:20 Still life with Letter Pastries by Peter Binoit, ca. 1615; link

31:25 various Scandinavian Yule-cards

31:40 Himmler had Julleuchters/ -Julkerze made for the families of SS-members.

31:45 girl in traditional dutch folk costume with chocolate Z

###part 3: Paper Age

Audio:

31:45 Johann Sebastian Bach: Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach, track 8; 0:53 min.

00:00 Johann Sebastian Bach; Orchestral Suites 1 & 2 (BWV 1066, 1067); Suite No. 1 in C; I. Ouverture; 6:30 min.

31:45 image taken from article Eos magazine, sept 2011

32:40 see 1b at 5:00

33:15 see 2a at 10:30

34:15 image taken from article Eos magazine, sept 2011

34:30 Muller: link ; Van Gelder: link

34:35 "Oudheid van papier en schrift van het Oera Lindaboek"; link ; the report was published in "De Nederlandsche Spectator" (5 august 1876), p.254-255 and in "Friesch Volksblad" (13 august 1876)

34:45 footnote 5 of: "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

34:60 my translation, see at 34:35 

35:25 history of paper making: link

35:30 chinese image from web; arab one from presentation prof. J.J. Witkam "Introduction to Islamic Codicology"

35:35 sample: here ; more samples here

36:00 OLB page 72 fragment

36:25 image from and reference to: "The Oera Linda Boek, a 'cold case' and 'hot item'." by Henk Porck, Ellen van der Grijn, Adriaan Kardinaal (published in the magazine of the Dutch Royal Archivists Union (KVAN), edition April 2011)

37:45 see for certificate of transfer (18 oct. 1938) link "beperkende voorwaarden" here

38:30 see 2a at 10:30

###part 4a: Jensma's Haverschmidt doctrine on Frisian educational TV

Audio:

39:40 Bach: Musikalisches Opfer; Canon a 8 vocis BWV 1072; 0:19 min.

54:40 Abraham Goldfaden, Somerville Samba, Evelyn Huber; "Rozinkes mit Mandeln"; 2:17 min.

or: Wir glauben all an einen Gott (II), chorale prelude for organ, BWV 765 (BC K105)

39:40 image of Westfriese omringdijk, from web

40:00 subtitles by me; original video from YT channel "tsjekfryslan"; link

53:10 image from website 11en30; link

53:50 see 1b at 5:00

54:40 prof.dr. G.Th. Jensma; image from web

54:45 name of thesis: "De Gemaskerde God. François HaverSchmidt en het Oera Linda-boek" (2004)

54:50 information about discussion: Fryslân jg.10 (2004) no.3, p.12 "Jûn oer de dissertaasje fan Goffe Jensma"

55:05 images of profs. Cossee, Mathijsen and Meijering (Opstalboom) from web

55:25 source: Leeuwarder Courant, 10 december 2004 "Van het Oera Linda-boek, de Friese kip en de zeespiegel"; translation by me

56:15 Goffe Jensma, "Lees, leer en Waak. Het Oera Linda Bok: een rondleiding". De Vrije Fries, LXXII (1992) p.8-52.

56:35 Jensma's quote was from the 1951 translation of the Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap (NBG): link

56:50 Portrait of François Haverschmidt (1835-1894) by Thérèse Schwarze

56:55 Frisian bible; Nije Fryske Bibeloersetting (1978); link

Dutch version video

Vernieuwde versie met alle 9 delen, betere audio en andere herzieningen:
 

Delen:
00:10 - 1a) Inleiding Jensma
03:00 - 1b) Multatuli, Tresoar & Himalaya
08:50 - 2a) Standschrift & Runschrift
14:15 - 2b) Barbaren, Berbers en Cijfertekens
20:45 - 2c) Radmodus & Ontcijfering
30:48 - 2d) Joelfeest & Sinterklaasletters
33:13 - 3) Oud Papier
42:02 - 4a) Vermeende Mystificatie
59:23 - 4b) Antiek 'Racisme'

old English video source list here

English version video

First 9 parts combined (updated May 2018):

parts:
00:11 - 1a) Introduction Jensma
03:00 - 1b) Multatuli & Himalaya
09:13 - 2a) Standskrift & Runskrift
14:30 - 2b) Barbarians & Numerals
21:32 - 2c) In Modum Rotae
31:20 - 2d) Yule & Edible Letters
33:44 - 3) Paper Age
42:26 - 4a) Alleged Mystification
59:52 - 4b) Ancient 'Racism'

old video source list here

Forum #39 (1 - 12 nov. 2013)

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Posted 01 November 2013 - 02:47 PM

A correction of the existing translations:

LÉJAR LAJA = lichterlaaie
(not the current meaning of a big fire, but the old meaning: a light, smoldering or glowing flame)

[original 084/14]
THÀT LJUCHT THÀT EROST ALLÉNA GLORADE 
SKIL THAN FON LÉJAR LAJA TO.N LOGHA WERTHA

[Ottema and Sandbach, p.117]
Het licht, dat eerst alleen gloorde,
zal dan van lieverlede tot eene vlam worden.
The light which at first only glimmered 
shall gradually become a flame.

[Goffe Jensma, 2006]
Het licht dat eerst alleen gloorde,
zal dan van liever lede tot een vlam worden.

[Menno Knul]
Het licht, dat eerst alleen gloorde,
zal dan van lieverlee tot een vlam worden.

Source: etymologiebank.nl/lichterlaaie:

Vnnl. lichte laeye ‘roodgloeiende vlam’ [1599; Kil.], 
het herte in een vier scheen lichter-laey te branden 
‘het hart leek in vuur en vlam te staan’ [1630; WNT branden], 
al voor den dageraet [stont] een derdepart van Londen in lichter laeye [1666; WNT]; 
nnl. 't vuur ... zette Amsterdam ... in lichtelaeije vlam [1741; WNT].

Het tweede lid is het buiten deze uitdrukking verouderde zn. laeye ‘vlam’, zoals in 
die laye die dat hout vut gheft 
‘de vlammen die uit het hout slaan’ [1340-60; MNW-R]. 

Het gaat terug op een Noordzee-Germaanse nevenvorm *leia van mnl. loghe ‘vlam, gloed’ [midden 14e eeuw; MNW], 
dat later ook nog voorkwam in in lichte loogh [ca. 1645; WNT]. 

Nfri. yn ljochte lôge ‘in lichterlaaie’; 
nzw. i ljusan låga, 
nde. i lys lue ‘id.’. 

Bij mnl. laeye horen: 
os. logna; 
ohd. loug (mhd. louc); 
oe. leg (me. leye); 
on. leygr;
ofri. loga (nfri. lôge); 
on. logi (nzw. låga, nde. lue; ook ontleend als me. lowe, ne. (Schots) low); 
al deze woorden betekenen ‘vlam, gloed’. 

Mnl. loghe kan zowel uit pgm. *luga- als uit *laugi- zijn ontstaan. 
Daarnaast bestonden ook vormen zonder grammatische wisseling: 
mnd. lo(he); 
mhd. lohe (nhd. Lohe)

Also see: gtb.inl.nl/lichterlaaie

That was an improvement of the dutch and english translations.
The german translation by Wirth (1933) was in fact right:

Das Licht, das zuerst getagt hat,
wird dann von lichter Lohe zu einer wallenden Glut werden.

Posted 01 November 2013 - 03:43 PM

A sentence that Ottema missed, and thus also lacks in Sandbachs translation.

[original 125/29] DÉMÉTRIUS WAS NÉI ATHENJA FÁREN. 
THA VS KÉNING THÀT VNDERSTANDE LÉD.ER VS TO BEK. 
THA WI ANDA HÁVE KÉMON ...

[Ottema/ Sandbach p.173] Demetrius was naar Athene gevaren.
[Toen onze koning dat verstond (begreep), leidde hij ons terug.]
Toen wij in de haven kwamen, ...

Demetrius had sailed to Athens. 
[When our king understood that, he led us back.]
When we came into the harbour, ...

Posted 04 November 2013 - 09:41 AM

Knul, on 03 November 2013 - 11:50 PM, said:

A skyscraper doesn't scrape either.

Right. Even IF the OLB had something like "HIMEL-AJA" => "hemel-aaien" (stroke/ caress heaven), it would not prove that it was ment as a joke and thus be fake.
Just like we do, our prechristian ancestors will have been creative with their language. Why would they not?

The prevailing etymology of Himalaya is from Sanskrit, him (snow) + alaya (dwelling).
This may be right or not. Etymologists often disagree with eachother.

Whatever the right original meaning was, it is possible that people who knew an 'Indogermanic' language in that time, believed it was "Himel-Laya", meaning something like "leading to heaven" or "laying/ lying in heaven".

Posted 05 November 2013 - 09:17 AM

Knul, on 05 November 2013 - 01:54 AM, said:

part of a letter by Ottema to Over de Linen, dated May, 31th, 1872:

Gij zult zien dat ik het fantasie runskrift, dat in het H.S. voorkomt, heb laten varen.
Dat is een bijvoegsel van veel lateren tijd, en zuiver fictie, dus onecht.

You will see that I have left out the fantasy-'runskrift' from the manuscript. 
That was added much later and pure fiction, thus inauthentic.

Ik ben tot de eenvoudige overtuiging gekomen, dat het standskrift is de groote letter
in den cirkel geteekend en het runskrift dat wat men in de gewone schriften gebruikt
en waarin het geheele H.S. geschreven is.

I have come to the simple conviction, that the 'standskrift' is the big letter, 
drawn in the circle, and that the runskrift that what was used in common writing 
and in which the whole manuscript was written.

Men zou het eerste theoretisch en het laatste praktisch schrift kunnen noemen.
Met veele vriendelijke groeten aan uwe familie.

The first might be called theoretic and the other practical writing. 
With many friendly greetings to your family.

~
Answer from Cornelis Over de Linden to this, dated 11 june 1872:

Quote

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 letterscript 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 letterscript. 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 ciphars.

That the monks, who have invented their own letterscript, 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

I agree with Over de Linden. Ottema was terribly wrong.
Ottema was more learned, but Over de Linden more wise.

Posted 05 November 2013 - 10:34 AM

We've been here before.
Does this look like a 19th century handwritten "f" to you, Knul?

By some, the OLB 'runskrift' was interpreted as 19th century handwriting.
But it isn't.

Posted 05 November 2013 - 03:38 PM

Knul, on 05 November 2013 - 11:42 AM, said:

Brief van J.G. Ottema aan Cornelis over de Linden d.d. 9 juni 1872
De figuren die in het H.S. als runskrift geteekend zijn behooren er niet toe. De soort van lettertrek wijst uit dat zij er (vroegstens) in het begin der vorige eeuw bij kunnen geteekend zijn. Hiddo oera Linda had dat alfabet in runskrift weggelaten, als onnodig, omdat het boek zelf in runskrift geschreven was. Maar wat voor hem niet nodig was, is voor mij bij den  druk nodig om aan te geven door welke letters ik de letters van het runskrift tracht aan te duiden. Door middel van die opgave kan men ten allen tijde naar de gedrukte tekst het boek in zijn oorspronkelijk schrift herstellen. Ik wou om een mooi ding, dat die fantasieletters er nooit gestaan hadden, want zij hebben al meer dan te veel kwaad gedaan., terwijl het zien daarvan de menschen in den waan heeft gebracht en doen zeggen, dat schrift kan niet meer dan honderd jaar oud zijn.

The symbols that were written in the manuscript as being 'runskrift', don't belong to it. The sort of letterdrawing proves that they may have been added (at the earliest) in the early 18th century. Hiddo Oera Linda did not include that alfabet in runskrift, as it was not needed, while the book itself was written in runskrift. But what was not needed for him, is needed for me in this printed edition, to indicate which printing letters represent which runskrift letters. By means of that table, one can at any time use the printed text to reproduce the book in its original script. I would dearly wish that these fantasyletters would not have been there, as they already have done more than too much harm, having people who saw them get the illusion and declare, that the manuscript can not be more than a century old.

Again, for the record: I disagree with Ottema in this.
I see no reason to believe that the letters are not authentic.

Posted 08 November 2013 - 11:41 AM

Knul, on 06 November 2013 - 06:24 AM, said:

Brief van J.G. Ottema aan Cornelis over de Linden d.d. 12 juni 1872

Gij hebt zeker mijn vorigen brief en mijne bedoeling niet goed begrepen. Ik wil trachten duidelijker te zijn.  

Het Standschrift is de lettervorm in het jol geteekend, dat Staand schrift is de Standaard, het model, maar voor het dagelijks gebruik te omslachtig en te moeyelijk. 

Zoo is ook het H.S. niet in Standschrift geschreven. Fasta heeft er het runskrift van gemaakt door de zaak te vereenvoudigen, door de letter van het jol te ontdoen en daarbij de letters gelijk van grootte te maken. 

In dat runschrift is ook het H.S. geschreven. Dit letterschrift is het run, dus niet de figuurtjes op pag. 46.Als gij dit goed bekijkt, dan zult gij zien:

1e. dat zij met een ganzenschacht geschreven zijn en niet met het penseel zoo als het geheele H.S. 
2e.  dat de inkt verbleekt is en van een geheel andere soort als de zuiver zwarte onverbleekte inkt van het H.S. 

De oude inkt is niet ijzerhoudend en verbleekt of verroest niet, zoo als de latere ijzerhoudende inkt. Die oude inkt in de 13e eeuw komt meer met de Chinese inkt overeen. 

Bovendien als dat schrift het dagelijksche of loopend schrift was, dan had het H.S.  in dat schrift moeten geschreven zijn. En dat schrift zoude juist veel moeyelijker geweest zijn. Ik heb er de proef van genomen en bevonden dat met die frisen en krolnen niet vlug schrijven is.

Het runskrift is door de Krekalanders overgenomen en tot een bewijs dus wat runskrift is, zend ik u hierbij een staaltje van oud grieksch schrift, benevens een grieksch alfabet met de Friesche letters eronder. 

Daaruit zult gij zien, dat de Grieken bijna alle lettervormen hebben aangenomen, schoon ze zich wel eens vergist hebben in de aanwending. Doch het bewijst genoeg dat zij het Friesche schrift hebben nagebootst. 

Nu had Hiddo oera Linda niet nodig bij zijn alfabet op te geven hoe het runskrift er uitzag. Het heele H.S. was runskrift. Hij heeft daarom de ruimte open en oningevuld gelaten. Van die opene ruimte is later door iemand gebruik gemaakt om te beproeven. 

Die krulletters hebben met het origineele H.S. evenmin iets te maken als de pagineering. Zij behoren er niet toe en dienen trouwens ook nergens voor, omdat er geen geschrift bestaat met zulke letters geschreven. Het is en blijft een fantasie-alfabet. (specimen in Grieks schrift.

Translation:

You must have misunderstood my last letter and what I meant. I will try to be more clear.

The Standskrift is the letterform drawn in the Yol; this standing script is the standard, the model; but for daily use to unwieldy and difficult.

Thus the manuscript was also not written in Standskrift. Fàsta derived her simplified Runskrift from it, by taking the letter out of the Yol and making the letters of equal size.

In this Runskrift the manuscript was written. This script is the Run, and not the symbols on page 46. When you take a good look at them, you will see:

1. that they were written with a goose quill and not with pencil as is the whole manuscript
2. that the ink is pale and of a kind, very different from the pure black ink of the manuscript

The old ink does not contain iron and does not bleach or rust, as does the later ink with iron. The old 13th century ink is more like the Chinese ink.

Moreover, if that script was the daily or walking script, then the manuscript should have been written in it. And to write that would have been much more difficult. I have tried it and found that writing with those curls is slower.

The Runskrift was taken over by the Krekalanders and as evidence of what Runskrift is, I herewith send you a sample of Oldgreek writing, and a Greek alfabet with the Frisian letters under it.

This will show you, that the Greeks took over almost all letter-shapes, although they were sometimes mistaken in their use. But it provides enough proof that they imitated the Frisian script.

Hiddo Oera Linda did not need to add the Runscript to his alfabet as the whole manuscript was Runscript. Therefore he left the space open and not filled up. This open space was used by someone later to experiment.

Just like the page numbers, those curly letters have nothing to do with the manuscript. They don't belong to it and serve no purpose anyway, because no document exists that is written with such letters. It is and remains a fantasy-alfabet. (added a sample in Greek script)

~~~ In a following post, I will add what Jensma wrote about this, and what my comments are.

To avoid misunderstanding:
I don't agree with Ottema. In my opinion, the whole manuscript was written in Standskrift and the curly Runscrift can very well be authentic. More detail later.

Posted 08 November 2013 - 01:48 PM

Knul, on 06 November 2013 - 07:04 PM, said:

Gestur, what is your opinion of the following ? The matter is most relevant, because swetsaren is commonly translated as Zwitsers (Suisse).

Brief van J.G. Ottema aan Cornelis over de Linden d.d. 21 augustus 1872
[...] De woorden swetsaren; swetnata komen af van swette, grens, grensscheiding, nog niet in onbruik, b.v. de Sneeker vaart wordt nog wel de Swette* genoemd, als de oude grens tusschen Oostergo en Westergo. Swetsar zijn volken die aan elkaar grensen, maar swetnata (grensgenoten) menschen die binnen dezelfde grenzen woonen. In beide gevallen dus wel naburen, doch in het laatste tevens landgenoten. [...]

* In Dutch you may find the name Zwetsloot. s. http://www.encyclo.nl/begrip/Zwetsloot .

1 [026/23]

THAT HI VSA SWETSAR BIRAWATH

that he bereaves our neighbors

2 [026/25]

VSA SWETNATA WILLON THÀT WROKEN HÀVA

our neighbors want to have that avenged

3 [029/21]

SAHWERSA VSA SWETHNATA EN DÉL LÁND HÀVE 

when our neighbors have a part of land

4 [029/27]

SAHWERSA THÉR SWETHNATA ET SÉMNE KYVA 

when neighbors quarrel together

5 [070/21]

WITH HJARA SWETSAR TO STRIDANDE

fighting with their neighbors

6 [109/22]

THA SWETSAR JEFTHA PÀLENGGAR FON DA HÉINDE KRÉKA LANDER

the 'swetsar' or pàlenggar' (neighbors) of the near Krékalanders

SWETSAR - 1, 5, 6

SWETNATA - 2

SWETHNATA - 3, 4

Note:

[210/18]

VSA BÜRA RA LANDA

the lands of our neighbors

__________1________2_____________3________4________5________6______
Ottema----naburen--landgenooten--naburen--naburen--naburen--naburen
Overwijn--buren----landgenoten---buren----buren----buren----buren
Jensma----naburen--naburen-------buren----naburen--naburen--Zwitserse buren*

*voetnoot Jensma: "Dubbelzinnig: SWETSAR, waarmee hier de Zwitsers wordt aangeduid, stamt van Oudfries Swethe- grens, en betekent dus ook grensbewoner."

Wiarda Oldfrisian Dictionary, 1786 (selection):

Swet, Suet - der Schweis (Switserland)

swet, suet, sues - nahe, was nahe anlieget, Nachbarschaft, Gränze (near, what lies near, neighborhood, border)

suetha - Gränzscheidung (border)

swetten - angrenzen (to border)

Sweta - Gränzpfahl (border-pole)

swesost, swetnoet - nächst, nachbarlich (near, neighboring)

suen ethon - Mitgenossen, Collegen (fellow, collegue)

Swethen, Suethan - Nachbaren (neighbors)

Sued noten - Nachbaren, eigentlich nachbarliche Genossen, sehe Naet (neighbors)

-

Naet, nath, not - ein Genosse, Geselle (partner, companion)

My notes to this:

SWETSAR is more 'aangrenzenden', and SWETNATA 'grensgenoten', but there's hardly a difference. Buren (neighbors) for both is a liberal, but acceptable translation. Note that two varieties are used in fragment 1 and 2, only 2 lines apart. Also note that SWET, SWÉT means sweet in OLB.

IMO, it is possible that the name "Switserland" is derived from SWETSARLAND.

Jensma translated assuming that OLB is full of intended pun/ ambiguities (dubbelzinnigheden), to which I don't agree. He likewise translated FRYAS (sometimes) with 'vrije Friezen'.

Posted 08 November 2013 - 02:17 PM

Knul, on 07 November 2013 - 08:17 PM, said:

If part of a book is written in the same hand and this same hand belongs to a later century (as Ottema admits), the whole book is written in a later century.

We are talking about these fragments ("RUN"-script, the curly letters/ numbers under the wheel-mode letters/ numbers):

"If part of a book is written in the same hand..."

I believe Hidde made both the Stand- and the Run-script (I see no reason why he couldn't have), but it is impossible to prove.

"... and this same hand belongs to a later century (as Ottema admits)..."

Ottema <assumed> it, but there is no evidence. The ink was never tested, as far as I know. It seems obvious that the RUN is written with a different pen and ink, but that does not mean it must have been a different hand that wrote it.

"... the whole book is written in a later century."

This conclusion fails, because both arguments (same hand, later century) are invalid (not proven).

Posted 08 November 2013 - 02:33 PM

Knul, on 07 November 2013 - 09:05 PM, said:

It has been said that Ottema committed suicide, when he found out, that the OLB was fake (Jensma), but the real reason could well be, that someone found, that Ottema changed the plate of letters and left out the 19th century runskript. The someone could be Wopke Eekhoff,  antiquarian and bookseller in Leeuwarden, who cooperated in the distribution of the OLB. It has been questioned, why Eekhoff kept silent in the discussions about the OLB. Van der Mey/Hellinga suggested that this had something te do with Halbertsma (see below), but more obvious is, that it has something to do with Ottema. Eekhoff knew the original manuscript, at least from the meetings of the Frisian Society and could easily see, that Ottema changed the letter plate, because he distributed the OLB himself.This was certainly a crime, as the whole nation was deceived by Ottema. A good reason to commit suicide.

Once more: That the Runscript would be from the 19th century (or any other than the 13th C.) is not proven.
That Ottema may have felt bad about having manipulated page 46 - against the strong advice of Cornelis Over de Linden! - could very well be.
It was indeed a huge mistake to do this.
As long as we don't have a suicide note or trustable witness report, we can only speculate about how and why Ottema died. Like I said - we can't even be sure that it was suicide.
The suggestion that Eekhoff might have had anything to do with it, sounds like wild speculation to me.

Posted 08 November 2013 - 02:45 PM

Knul, on 08 November 2013 - 02:38 PM, said:

Just compare the words STAND and RUN, obviously in the same hand.

Yes, to that I would agree.
And I do believe that the same hand made the 'curly' letters.
But I don't see why they can't be authentic (copied by Hidde from an older original).

Posted 08 November 2013 - 04:41 PM

Knul, on 08 November 2013 - 03:01 PM, said:

Because such letters did not yet exist in mediëval manuscripts.

Weren't there Roman sources that said the 'barbarians' wrote in a script similar to Greek? Whatever that script really was, none of it was saved.
Those medieval manuscripts would not have been written in everyday handwriting, but in calligraphy.

At school I learned an oldfashioned handwriting (the sort that you don't have to lift your pen from the paper between every letter), but when I wrote down my genealogy I used block letters that were more easy to read.

Many people can write in more than one script. The Standscript, based on the Yol, will have been what for us is a printing letter, while the Runscript would have been for everyday use on paper (berk - birken - perkament /// beuk - buch - book /// pompebledar - pompier/ pampier - papier) that would have fallen apart or burnt.

The old manuscripts we have, were kept by monks (or other authorities). Why is virtually nothing saved from the vanquished? Right, because they were vanquished.
Liko warned his descendants for a good reason.

nihil sub sole novum

Quote

Capitals can never be called runskrift. It's simply not speedy.

Some of them look like our (handwriting) capitals, but not all. 
And my reconstruction showed that they can be written in a flowing line.

The A, Á, À, F are different, we don't have the reversed Y (usually transcribed as Í) or the NG letter.
It will have been fast for a trained hand, and more practical than the Standscript, because every time you lift your pen from the paper or put it back on again, the ink can make a stain. It's easier to keep the pen on the paper. But it would have been more difficult to read for a random reader as there would be more variety (just like today).

When you have to fill out a form, they usually ask you to use 'block letters'.

~ A quote from Multatuli (1820-1887) is applicable here.

"Ik trek voor die echtheid geen party. God bewaarme! Ik heb te weinig gegevens. En bovendien, er komen ook passages in voor die te kinderachtig zyn om van te spreken. Maar juist hierin ligt 'n nieuwe waarschuwing tegen snel oordelen en hoovaardig verwerpen. Want meent men dat de toch altyd zeer bekwame vervalscher niet op de hoogte was om intezien dat die zwakke zotte passages hem diskrediteeren zouden? Geen schooljongen zelfs zou van Neef Teunis hebben durven spreken." (volgens Jensma: 22-10-1875)

Translated: "I will not judge the authenticity. God save me! I have too little information. And besides, there are fragments that are too childish for words. But exactly that is another warning against fast judgement and haughty rejection. Because why would the supposed masterforger not have understood that those weak, silly parts would make people suspicious? No schoolboy even would have dared speak of Neef (nephew) Tunis (for Neptune)."

If we assume that it is all fake, then the forger has made an extreme effort to make it look old (paper, language, script, spelling variety, etc.), while at the same time adding things (like the alfabet page) that make it utterly unbelievable (for the people of his time).

How much sense does this make?

Posted 09 November 2013 - 09:49 AM

Knul, on 09 November 2013 - 02:15 AM, said:

... the type used in the OLB is a modern type, not a medieval.

It may look like a modern type to many, but you still ignore that the F is completely different and there is no modern NG letter.
There just is no other (pre-) medieval example available (yet).

With the current techniques, it should be very easy to determine age of paper and ink.
Yet, after many years of so-called research, there is no clear answer.
(If there would be, the official OLB-site would link to it.)
This says enough.

Posted 09 November 2013 - 09:58 AM

kmt_sesh, on 09 November 2013 - 06:10 AM, said:

As far back as the second century CE some tribes from Germania had adopted characters from the Latin script...

In Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico (6,14) it says that the Gauls wrote 'with Greek letters'. This was about 50 BCE:

Magnum ibi numerum versuum ediscere dicuntur; itaque annos nonnulli vicenos in disciplina permanent. Neque fas esse existimant, ea literis mandare, cum in reliquis fere rebus, publicis privatisque rationibus, Graecis utantur literis. Id mihi duabus de causis instituisse videntur; quod neque in vulgum disciplinam efferri velint, neque eos, qui discant, literis confisos, minus memoriae studere....

Posted 09 November 2013 - 10:21 AM

Knul, on 08 November 2013 - 05:18 PM, said:

Cornelis over de Linden tried to get a lot of money for the manuscript, even advised by Ottema. At the end no one wanted to buy it, not even the Worp MS. Stadermann and Son made money out of everything.

I don't have those letters at hand, and can't find our earlier discussion about it.
As far as I remember, some Englishman had approached OdL and offered money after OLB was published.
OdL wrote Ottema about it (who answered), but decided NOT to sell it after all.

OdL initially believed the manuscript contained information about a family treasure, but when he got older and gave up deciphering it himself, he sent it to (what he thought would be) the specialists (in Leeuwarden).

If it was a fraud and he wanted to make money with it, it would make no sense to send it to specialists, because that would risk it being reveiled as fake.

What is your source for him trying to sell the Worp? I remember that the Frisian Society very eagerly wanted to have it.

"Stadermann and Son made money out of everything"

If you mean they were book traders, what do you expect?
What are your sources for this anyway?

Posted 09 November 2013 - 10:23 AM

Knul, on 09 November 2013 - 10:04 AM, said:

Standskrift is the jol script (in circles). The OLB letters differ from this jol script.

Then what would you call the normal OLB letters (that are modeled after the Jol)?
They don't differ from the standard, they are sometimes just less precise, which is only normal in handwriting.

Posted 09 November 2013 - 10:25 AM

Knul, on 09 November 2013 - 10:06 AM, said:

There has been a recent investigation of the paper. It has been discussed here before. Abramelin will remember.

I remember very well, as I translated the reports. The results were too vague to be serious.
A more detailed report was planned to be published this year, but I have heard nothing of it yet.
Anyway, if some clear answer would have come out, the official OLB-site (from Tresoar) should mention it.

Posted 09 November 2013 - 10:42 AM

Knul, on 09 November 2013 - 10:04 AM, said:

Standskrift is the jol script (in circles).

OLB, page 45:

THAT JOL [...] THANA HETH FRYA THAT STAND SKRIFT MAKAD THAT HJA BRUKTE TO HJRA TEX.

The Yol (...) from that Frya made the Standskrift, that she used for her Tex.

Why would she make a wheel for every letter writing her whole Tex?



Can you imagine that?
It makes no sense to me.
The wheel is how the letters were designed, it was the standard.
But writing a text, why make a wheel every time?

H

here are some samples of how children learn to write at school.

Nobody knows who first designed these letters. It is an old tradition and it may as well be much older than most of us can imagine.





Notice how the OLB-runskrift F looks more like a greek F, but nothing like the western F's above.

I know some will say that we got them from the Romans, but where did they get them from?

Posted 09 November 2013 - 12:08 PM

NO-ID-EA, on 09 November 2013 - 11:52 AM, said:

surely even if we get a scientific appraisal of both the ink , and the paper it will not change anything

If the outcome is, that it's from the 13th centrury, it will change everything. Then it is an authentic 13th century manuscript.
(Hardcore skeptics may still argue that it may have been 13th century fiction.)

But if paper and ink would turn out to be from the 19th century, it could indeed still be a copy of an older original. Like Multatuli I can imagine no-one (or no group) who could have created something like it then, not even nowadays.

Let's try some logic.

It has been examined for a long time. Modern techniques could easily determine age of paper and ink.

IF the outcome would be that it's 19th century, it would confirm Jensma's theory (he is head of the research group), and it would be published in Frisian and Dutch newspapers and on the official OLB site.

But instead there is silence.
That can only mean that the results they got are not the results they want.

Knul, on 09 November 2013 - 12:23 PM, said:

The Romans derived their script from the Etruscans.

If so, where did the Etruscans get it from?

Posted 09 November 2013 - 12:51 PM

Knul, on 09 November 2013 - 12:30 PM, said:

It means, that no one is interested any more. Who would be interested in a 19th century hoax ?

OLB is part (#23) of the 'Canon' of Frisian history.
That means it is considered to be one of the most significant subjects (whether hoax or not).

Say Knul, why would you be interested in a 19th century hoax?

Knul, on 09 November 2013 - 12:31 PM, said:

From the Greeks.

Where did the Greeks get it from?

NO-ID-EA, on 09 November 2013 - 01:06 PM, said:

if its 13th C it wont change much

You have no imagination. It would be utterly unique in its kind and a treasure for linguists.

Posted 09 November 2013 - 01:52 PM

Interesting footnote (43) from Jensma (2004), chaper 6, page 395.

There seems to be significant agreement between Rudbecks Atlantica and the OLB. In one paragraph of Atlantica for example, four corresponding elements are found: Rudbeck's Yol is connected to Kronos, the 'Julfather', who is the same as OLB's 'allfather'. (...) Moreover, this 'Julfather' holds a wheel (of time) in his left hand, which is connected to the rune-script, just like in the OLB; Rudbeck, Atlantica I, 698-699: 'Idcirco Cronum Julfader sive Atinum cum rota in sinistra manu, teste Vossio, pinxerunt veteres, & initium anni, quo cum solis conversione conjunctum erat, in fastis suis Runicis nonnunquam rota apposita signaverunt.'; compare Eriksson, Atlantic Vision, 72. Also, central concepts are mentioned like the 'folksmother' (e.g. Rudbeck, Atlantica II, 438,  'folkesmoder') and Atlantis, named 'Atlant' here, just like in the OLB (e.g. Rudbeck, Atlantica I, 212 and further).

Original text:
Er lijkt een aanzienlijke overeenkomst tussen Rudbecks Atlantica en het Oera Linda-boek te bestaan. Zo komt men hier in één enkele alinea tenminste vier overeenkomstige elementen tegen: het 'jol' wordt door Rudbeck in verband gebracht met Kronos de 'Julfader', die ook bij Rudbeck dezelfde is als de in het Oera Linda-boek opduikende 'alvader'. (...) Bovendien houdt deze 'Julvader' in zijn linkerhand een wiel (van de tijd), waarmee precies als in het Oera Linda-boek het runenschrift in verband wordt gebracht; Rudbeck, Atlantica I, 698-699: 'Idcirco Cronum Julfader sive Atinum cum rota in sinistra manu, teste Vossio, pinxerunt veteres, & initium anni, quo cum solis conversione conjunctum erat, in fastis suis Runicis nonnunquam rota apposita signaverunt.'; vgl. Eriksson, Atlantic Vision, 72. Ook centrale begrippen als de 'volksmoeder' (b.v. Rudbeck, Atlantica II, 438,  'folkesmoder') en Atlantis, dat hier net als in het Oera Linda-boek 'Atlant' wordt genoemd (b.v. Rudbeck, Atlantica I, 212 e.v.) komen voor.

Does anyone have acces to Rudbeck's Atlantica?

Of course, Jensma assumes that Atlantica will have been a source of inspiration for OLB, but what was Rudbeck's source? His information may have had roots in real history, as may OLB. In other words, both may be seperate traces of real ancient traditions.

I found part I, but it is hard to read.

Knul, on 08 November 2013 - 05:18 PM, said:

I think we have similar goals, to find the truth.

The difference between us, as that I answer all your questions, while you ignore anything that is in conflict with your theory.

Knul, on 09 November 2013 - 04:22 PM, said:

I am interested in all sort of historical hoaxes...

In that case I recommend the Anne Frank Diary.

Posted 09 November 2013 - 08:27 PM

Some relevant quotes from "De Germanen en het christendom. Een bewogen ontmoeting (5de – 7de eeuw)", author Pierre Trouillez.
("The Germanic Tribes and Christianity. A fierce encounter, 5th - 7th century")

quote 1 - page 133 (my underlining)

In 455 things didn't go more meek in Braga. After the Visigoth king Theoderik II had taken the Sueban capital, 'the sacred basilica was broken in, the altars were knocked down and shattered, the devoted virgins were taken away, but respectfully treated, and the clerics were disrobed to the limits of the appropriate.' (Hydatius of Chaves, Chronicle, 174)

Original text:
In 455 ging het er in Braga niet zachtzinniger aan toe. Nadat de Visigothische koning Theoderik II de Suevische hoofdstad ingenomen had, 'werd in de basilieken van de heiligen binnengebroken, werden de altaren omvergegooid en verbrijzeld, de gewijde maagden weggevoerd, maar met respect behandeld, en de clerici ontkleed tot aan de grenzen van het welvoeglijke.' (Hydatius van Chaves, Kroniek, 174)

My comments:
Most interesting is that these 'barbarians' treated the devoted virgins with respect. This would be expected if they were from a tradition that had FÁMNA as described in OLB.
Also interesting are the names of the Germanic kings and queens, as their meaning can almost always be explained with the OLB-language: Theoderik = THJUD - RIK = folk/ people - rich

quote 2 - page 138 (my underlining):

Long before the time of the christian Roman Empire, heathen intellectuals had left the polytheism of the common people and turned their spirit to the highest One of neoplatonism. The criticism of religion from the Greek mythologist Euhemerus († ca. 260 BCE) fitted in that tradition. In his Sacred History [Hiera Anagraphê] he had argued that the Greek gods were originally very heroic and meritorious mortals, who had begotten devine traits in the collective memory of humanity.

Original text:
Reeds lang vóór de tijd van het christelijke Romijnse Rijk hadden heidense intellectuelen afscheid genomen van het volkse polytheïsme en hun geest naar het hoogste Ene van het neoplatonisme gekeerd. Daaraan was de godsdienstkritiek van de Griekse mytholoog Euhemerus († circa 260 v.C.) niet vreemd. In Het heilige opschrift [Hiera Anagraphê] had hij betoogd dat de Griekse goden oorspronkelijk bijzonder heldhaftige en verdienstelijke mensen waren geweest, die in het collectieve geheugen van de mensheid goddelijke trekken hadden gekregen.

Comment:
This also fits very well with the tradition as described in the OLB. The highest One being Wralda and all mythological gods and goddesses explained as having been heroic mortals who were deified by priesthoods (Wodin, Neptune, Minerva, Buda, etc.).

A general comment about the whole book:

In the first few centuries of christianity, there was a fierce and bloody fight between two varieties of the Christian religion. The Germanic tribes had easily accepted a belief in One God and the teachings of the wise mortal Christ, but they could not accept the (later Roman Catholic) idea of the holy Trinity (a.o. Jesus being son of god and/or equal to god) and initial sin. They were so-called Arianists (named after Arius (ca. 250–336 CE)). Many of these tribes later adopted Islam, which also has just one god (of All, not one chosen people) and the messengers (prophets) as mortals.

This is very much like the philosophy of the OLB, in which priesthoods that deify mortals (drochtne, idols) are fiercly rejected and stressed that there is only one supreme creator (beginning and end of all): VVR-ALDA.

I will try to explain this better later, I think it is highly relevant.

Quote 3, page 149 - about "Etymologiae" by Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636)

Some explanations are still valid (...) But others will shock modern etymologists will, like the one for avis (bird): 'Doves, partridges, swallows (...) are called aves (birds), because they don't follow a fixed road (via), but use places without roads (avia) to move back and forth.'

Original text:
Sommige verklaringen gelden tot vandaag (...) Maar op vele andere zullen moderne etymologen onthutst reageren, zoals op die van avis (vogel): 'Duiven, patrijzen, zwaluwen (...) worden aves (vogels) genoemd, omdat ze geen vaste weg (via) volgen, maar plaatsen zonder wegen (avia) gebruiken om zich heen en weer te bewegen.'

Comment:
This is for anyone who still thinks that OLB can not be authentic, because it has some etymologies that seem silly.
Is Isidore's "Etymologiae" fake, because some of his etymologies are beyond weird?

Posted 10 November 2013 - 09:26 AM

Abramelin, on 09 November 2013 - 09:50 PM, said:

... "Egipteland" in the OLB?
... that was the way it was called - some times - in the Dutch Protestant Bible dating from the 17th century

Why was it called that in the 17th C. bible?
Because that was how people called it long before that bible was printed.

Quote

The OLB talks about "prester" or priest in English. (...)
It's a word borrowed from church latin.

On 'etymologiebank'  it says:
"Ontleend, wrsch. via een vulgair-Latijnse vorm *prester ‘priester’..."
=> probably derived from ... etc.

I think the words may be related, but not that prester is derived from presbyter or presbuteros.

Posted 11 November 2013 - 10:28 PM

VVR.ALDA => Vrotalt, Urotalt, Ourotalt

De Diis Germanis, Elias Schedivs (1728), p.157
"Arabes alias, teste Herodot. in Clio, Solem dixerunt Vrotalt, id est, Lucis Deum, itemque Dusarem, vel Daisarem, id est, perlustrantem Deum."
source

Geographie der Griechen und Römer aus ihren Schriften dargestellt, Konrad Mannert (1831), p.24-25
"... nennen den Dionysus Urotalt (Ουροταλτ)...
Urotal erklärt er für Erat-allah, Gott des Feuers...
Ob der Gott Urotalt, welchen Herodot so wie die Allita blos dey den nördlichern Arabern hatte kennen lernen, einerley mit der Hauptgottheit der südlichern Länder ist, weiss ich nicht zu sagen. ...
... Sonne und Mond (welches immer noch Urotalt und die Alitta bezeichnen kann), ...
Zuverlässig aber wurde Bacchus, welchen Herodot Urotalt nennt, in der Legend von Mecca auch unter dem Namen Dusares oder Dysares verehrt; ..."
source

Draft chapters of a treatise on the origin of religion and its corruption, Isaac Newton (c. 1690)
"Bacchus was the proper god of the Arabians & therefore their common father. ffor Herodotus (lib 3 initio) tells us Arabes Dionysium quem Vrotalt & Vraniam quam Alilat appellant [id est Bacchum et Venerem] solos Deorum esse arbitrantur: ..."
source

Buch des Kabus oder Lehren des persischen Königs Kjekjawus für seinen Sohn Ghilan Schach, Kaika'us Ibn-Iskanda, translated by Heinrich F. von Diez (1811) p.211
"Zu Zeiten Hiobs aus Esaus Geschlecht nemlich haben die Araber, wie obgedacht, Gott in der Wahrheit erkannt, und wenn wir die Abfassung dieses Buchs ins Jahr der Welt 2300 oder, wie einige wollen, noch etwas weiter zurück näher an die Zeiten Jacobs setzen, der im Jahre der Welt 2255 starb: so müssen wir urtheilen, dass sie zwölf Jahrhunderte vor Herodot noch im Besitz der unverfälschten Offenbarung gewesen. Wir müssen ferner annehmen, dass sie vom rechten Wege noch nicht abgewichen waren im Jahre der Welt 2952, als die Königin von Saba nach Jerusalem kam, welches 548 Jahre vor Herodot geschehen. Allein zur Zeit des letztem waren die Araber schon Götzendiener geworden, denn dieser Geschichtschreiber, welcher seine Geschichte ums Jahr der Welt 3500 schrieb, folglich 1112 Jahre zuvor, ehe Muhammed zu lehren angefangen, meldet, dass die Araber den Bacchus und die Urania verehrten. Den erstem nennt er mit einem verdorbenen arabischen Worte Urotalt und die letztere heisst er Alitta und Alilat. Urotalt soll wahrscheinlich Utarid (...) seyn, welches sonst Mercurius bedeutet, der vom Stamme Asad verehrt ward ."
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Maandelyksche berichten uit de andere waereld of de sprekende dooden (February 1769), p.122
"Zo is door den geleerden Calmet aangetoond, dat de Arabiers en Ismaëliten, eertyd Bacchus en Urama of Venus in dien tempel dienden; zo verhaalt ook Herodotus, dat ze geene anderen Godheden dan deeze hebben aangebede, de eerste van welke zy Urotalt, en de laatste Alilat noemden; hoe wel Strabo, een later schryver, verzekerd, dat ze, in vervolg van tyd Jupiter, de Zon, Maan en Demons aanbaden; doch hoe ze aan het verdichtsel zyn gekomen, dat Abraham dien tempel heeft gebouwd, weet mogelyk niemand te zeggen."
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Bijbel der natuur - Twaalfde deel, Johann Jacob Scheuchzer, vertaling L. Meijer (1792), p.623
Register: "Uranus Urotalt, de Zon. III.1109. IX.657"
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Algemeene histori van het begin der wereld af tot den tegenwoordigen tyd toe, Volume 2, translated from English by Kornelis Westerbaen (1741) p.423
"Een hedensdaegsch Schrijver (1) meent, dat d'Arabiërs en Ismaëliten eertijds Bacchus en Urania of Venus in dien tempel dienden: want Herodotus verhaelt, datze geene andere godheden, dan deeze hebben aengebeden, d'eerste van welke zijUrotalt, en de laetste Alilat noemen (2); hoewel andere laeter Schrijvers zeggen, datze ook Jupiter, de zon, maen, en de demons aenbaden (3). Hoe het hiermede gelegen zij, of niet, het is allerwaerschijnlijkst, dat d'altaer en het bosch, van Abraham te Berseba opgerecht (4), d'eerste gelegenheid tot deeze verziering heeft gegeeven, dat die tempel door hem gebouwd is."
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Das orakelwesen im Alterthume, Franziska Hoffmann (1880) p.20
"Das Bakidische Orakel auf Creta.
Wenn man den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Orient und Griechenland, zwischen dem Mysterien- und dem Orakelwesen festhalten will, so ist es nöthig die Verknüpfung zu kennen, in welcher der orientalische Bakis oder Bacchos zu dem griechischen Apollo stand. Im Anfange hatten die Griechen nur ausländische Götter, welche sie nationalisirten, später durch einheimische ersetzten und deren verschiedene Mythen mit einander verschmolzen. So auch gab es zwei Bacchosgötter. Der zweite Bacchos war Dionysos, Sohn der Semele; der erste war nach Herodot der arabische Gott Ourotalt, dessen Dienst von den Syriern und Phöniziern angenommen worden war, ehe er durch Melampus und Cadmos den Griechen bekannt wurde. Er ist der eigentlich mystische Bacchos, Mittelpunkt der Zagreusmythe, Mittelpunkt der Sabaziusfabel, die mit dem Dienst von Samothrake verknüpft war; von ihm stammen die Eleusinischen Mysterien mit der Jacchosmythe; von ihm stammen die bacchischen Orgien, wobei die Bacchantinnen bekanntlich ein Rehkalb zerrissen und das rohe Fleisch davon assen."
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The Archaeology of the District - The Finds at the Great Zimbabwe Ruins, J.T.Bent (1892) p.189-191
"... the creative powers of mankind.
A curious confirmation of this is found in the pages of Herodotus (Herod.Bk.III.par.8), who tells us:'The Arabians of all the gods only worshipped Dionysus, whom they called Ourotalt, and Urania;' that is to say, they worshipped the two deities which, in the mind of the father of history, represented in themselves all that was known of the mysteries of creation, pointing to the very earliest period of Arabian cult, prior ro the more refined religious development of the Sabaeo-Himyaritic dynasty, when Sun-worship, veneration for the great luminary which regenerated all animal and vegetable life, superseded the grosser forms of nature-worship, to be itself somewhat superseded or rather incorporated in a worship of all the heavenly luminaries, which developed as a knowledge of astronomy was aquired."
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Curieuse Aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische Verwonderens-waerdige Dingen, IV Deel, Simon de Vries (1682) p.1023
"By d'Arabiers salfden de Bond-verwanten seven Stenen met haer eygen Bloed; roepende daer by den Urotalt en Alilat: Welcke eenige voor Dionysius en Urania houden"
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Abramelin, on 11 November 2013 - 11:54 PM, said:

The first -T- doesn't doesn't just disappear on command, as much as you'd want it to be.

This name is in various sources related to Allah, the sun, light-god, fire-god, Osisris, Bacchus, Dionysos, supreme-god, creator-god, etc.

All this long before Islam.

The name has UR/ VR and ALT/ ALD.
All coincidence?
I think not.

This was the spelling by Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 BCE), Arabian sources may have many other spellings.
In almost 150 years of OLB-study, no-one ever came with this clue,
It begs for further investigation.

Two more sources/ spellings I just found:
pantheon.org/orotal
arturjotaef-numancia.blogspot/osiris

Posted 12 November 2013 - 09:57 AM

"Egipteland"

Abramelin, on 11 November 2013 - 11:49 PM, said:

It was ONLY called that way in the Dutch Protestant Bible of the 17th century. Nowhere else.

OLB (p.73): ÉGIPTALANDA Icelandic: Egyptaland or Egiptaland

Did the Icelanders get this spelling from the Dutch bible?

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It is fact that "prester/priester" is derived from Old Church Latin "presbyter".

Learn to read better:

gestur, on 10 November 2013 - 09:26 AM, said:

On 'etymologiebank'  it says:
"Ontleend, wrsch. via een vulgair-Latijnse vorm *prester ‘priester’..."
=> probably derived from ... etc.

"Waarschijnlijk" (probably) means it is NOT "fact".

In my Latin dictionary I see other possible related words:
praeses = beschermer, verdediger, bestuurder, heerser, stadhouder, landvoogd (protector, ruler, etc)
praetor = consul, krijgsoverste, stadhouder (thus similar to praeses)
praetor maximus = dictator

Posted 12 November 2013 - 10:29 AM

Abramelin, on 11 November 2013 - 11:58 PM, said:

Despite Gestur's/Otharus' love of conspiracies

You are the one who believes OLB is the result of a conspiracy.
I don't.

There have been good reasons to ignore, ridicule, demonise or lie about the OLB:

M. de Jong (1927, "Het geheim van het Oera-Linda-Boek") made clear that some saw the book as dangerous:

"Some see the OLB as the deceptive masterpiece of dark powers, created with the apparent goal of undermining the foundations of church and society."

Original text:
"er zijn er ook, die in het Oera-Linda-Boek het bedrieglijk kunstwerk van machten der duisternis zien, vervaardigd met het blijkbare doel de grondslagen van Kerk en Maatschappij te ondermijnen."