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]
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
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...
Do there have to be remains of those for OLB to be authentic?
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.
I don't get your point. OLB does not claim any of that and neither do I.
What is your point?
So, if a spelling variety is found in one source only, this means that the source is fake? Are you serious?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because the results were not what they wanted them to be. See my video about it:
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)
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.
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:
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.
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?
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.
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:
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)."
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.
People have many reasons to get rid of old letters.
I have seen better conspiracy theories than that.
In nowaday USA maybe.
Not here in Europe.
Put aside if you are right, do you believe this is how it should be?
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".
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.
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.
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
Good, that one is settled then.
Any hard evidence against authenticity left?
###Posted 31 October 2014
Dr. Ottema already answered that, as translated by Sandbach (1876, p.xiii-xiv of Introduction):
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.
###Posted 1 November 2014
... or frère (french for brother)?
###Posted 1 November 2014
Interesting.
The dutch and german equivalents would be:
dutch: vrouwelijk - feminine, female
german: fraulich - womanly, womanlike
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.
The fragment continues thus:
And this uncle Koneréd apparently still had an honorable position.
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.
Yes, several examples of that could be given.
OLB describes a civilisation in decline.
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.
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,
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
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.
==> see separate post
The whole original manuscript is here: http://aldfryas.blog...y-aldfryas.html
Scroll down a bit for a list of links (8a, 4b, etc).
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
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.












