WÉRHÉD ~ truth

'Truth coming from the well armed
with her whip to chastise mankind'
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1896)

Wahrheit - German
waarheid - Dutch, Afrikaans
wierheid - Frisian
Wourecht - Luxembourgian
gwirionedd - Welsh
vérité - French
verità - Italian, Corsican
veritat - Catalan
verdad - Spanish
verdade - Portuguese
(veritas - Latin)

(The Scandinavian words for 'truth' are related to English: sound, German: gesund, Dutch: gezond)
sandhed - Danish
sannhet - Norse
sanning - Swedish
sannleikur - Icelandic

Oera Linda fragments with my provisional translations:

[118/20] Gosa: Expulsion of Blacks
NW WINSTIK WEL THÀT MINA ÀFTERKVMANDA THÉRVP LETTA.
HO FÉR GOSA WÉRHÉD SPREK.
I hope my descendants will ascertain
to what extent Gosa was right [lit.: spoke truth].

[140/18] Yesus or Buda, Krisen, Fo
MEN AS THA PRESTERA SKILUN WÁNA
THÀT HJA ALLET LJUCHT FON FRYA ÀND FON JES.US LÉRE UTDÁVATH HÀVA.
SÁ SKILUN THÉR IN ALLE WRDA MÀNNISKA VPSTONDA
THAM WÉRHÉD IN STILNISE AMONG EKKORUM WARATH
ÀND TOFÁRA THA PRESTERA FORBORGEN HÀVE.
THISSA SKILUN WÉSA UT FORSTA BLOD. FON PRESTERUM BLOD
FON SLÁVONUM BLOD ÀND FON FRYA.S BLOD.
THAM SKILUM HJARA FODDIKUM ÀND THÀT LJUCHT BUTA BRINGA
SÁ THAT ALLERA MÀNNALIK WÉRHÉD MÉI SJAN.
HJA SKILUN WÉ HROPA OVERA DÉDA THÉRA PRESTERA ÀND FORSTA.
THA FORSTA THÉR WÉRHÉD MINNA ÀND RJUCHT
THAM SKILUN FON THA PRESTERA WIKA.
When the priests will imagine, however,
that they have entirely extinguished the light of Frya and of Yesus' teachings,
people will rise in all regions,
who have silently treasured truth among each other,
hiding it from the priests.
They will be of royal blood, of priestly blood,
of slaves' blood and of Frya's blood.
They will bring their lamps and the light into the open,
so that everyone may see truth.
They will condemn the deeds of the priests and princes.
The princes who love truth and justice
will separate themselves from the priests.

(the above fragment in the original manuscript:)

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The word TRVTH is also used once:

[101/09] Primal Teachings 2
SEND THÉR SVME THAM HJARA RENKA FRODA ÀNDET BÁR MAKJA
ALSA WRDON HJA THRVCH HJARA RAKKERA FÀT ÀND VMBIRA LASTER VRBARNAD
ELLA MITH FÉLO STÁTSKA PLÉGUM HJARA FALXA DROCHTNE TO.N ÉRE.
MEN IN TRVTH. ALLÉNA THÉRVMBE THÀT HJA.RA NAVT SKÁDA NE SKOLDE.
If there are any who see through their vile tricks and try to expose them,
these are caught by their henchmen and burnt for their defamation —
always with solemn ceremonies, in honour of their false divinities —
but in truth, it is only to protect the priesthood.

SÉLE ~ soul

Cycle of rebirth at Dazu Rock Carvings

soul - English
Seele - German
ziel - Dutch
siel - Afrikaans, Frisian
själ - Swedish
sjel - Norse
sjæl - Danish
sál - Icelandic
Séil - Luxemburghian
sielu - Finnish
siela - Lithuanian

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[00a/02] Hidde Oera Linda
THISSA BOKA MOT I MITH LIF ÀND SÉLE WÁRJA.
You must preserve these writings with life and soul.

[083/19] Death of Frana
MIN ÁGUN WRDE THJÛSTRED. THA THAT ÔRE LJUCHT DÉGTH VP IN MINARA SÉLE.
My eyes are blurred, but the inner light of my soul emerges...

[084/32] Death of Frana
ÉR SJUGUN ETMELDE OM SEND. SKIL THIN SÉLE MITHA NACHTFÜGLUN TO THA GRÁWA OMMEWÁRA 
ÀND THIN LIK SKIL LEDSA VPPA BODEM FONA SE.
Within one week, your soul shall wander about graves with the night birds, 
and your corpse will lie on the bottom of the sea.

[124/19] Alexander the King
WR.ALDA LÉT SINE SÉLE LÁS
Wralda deserted his soul


[127/13] Demetrius and Friso
VNWILLING.LIK IS THIN LIF BIWLLAD. 
THAT NE SKIL JOW NAVT TO RÉKNED NI WRDE. 
THACH SÁHWERSA JOW JOWE SÉLE BIWLLATH 
SA NE SKIL JOW NIMMERTHE TO WAL.HÁLLA NE KVMA. 
JOW SÉLE SKIL THÀN OVER JRTHA OMME.WÁRA. 
SVNDER A THET LJUCHT SJA TO MVGANDE. 
LIK THA FLÁRA.MUSA ÀND NACHT.ULA SKILSTV ALRA DYSTIK IN THINA HOLA SKULA. 
THES NACHT.IS UTKVMA. THEN VP VSA GRÀVA GRÁJA ÀND HULA. 
THAHWILA FRYA HJRA HAVED FON JOW OFWENDA MOT.
... against your will, your body was defiled. 
That, you are not to blame for. 
But if you defile your soul, 
you will never reach Walhalla. 
Your soul will then wander over the earth 
without being able to see the light. 
Like bats and owls you will hide in your hole by day, 
and come out at night, crying and howling upon our graves, 
while Frya must turn her head away from you.

[140/07] Yesus or Buda
VMBE SIN AJN SÉLE TO BIHALDANE MOST MÀN FÜL ANDA CHERKE JÁN.
... in order to save his own soul, one must offer the temple generously.

[196/06] Askar Prepares for War
JETA SWARTER AS SIN HÉR IS SINE SÉLE FVNDEN.
but his soul was found to be blacker than his hair

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Possibly related to SÉ (both verb 'see' and noun 'sea'), SÉLE (only used once as plural: 'pillars'; Dutch/German 'zuil'/'Säule') and SÉLICH, SÉLIGHÉD (once: SALICHHÉD).

Westfrisian ancestors

Since much of this project is about ancestors and some readers might wonder about my descent, I will now share some facts about this. First, the spread of my roots from the third generation (2x2x2 = 8 great-grandparents) to the sixth generation (8x8 = 64 gr.-gr.'parents of my 8 gr.-gr.'parents), then the variety of first names.

area of the Netherlands (North-Holland) in maps below

(each red dot represents the place of birth of one ancestor ~ map is of 1894)

genertation III: 8 ancestors birth years range: 1871-1889	generation IV: 16 ancestors birth years range: 1832-1864
generation V: 32 ancestors birth years range: 1786-1833	generation VI: 64 ancestors birth years range: 1750-1812

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First names in generations VI and VII (birth year range: 1715-1812)

Fathers	freq.		Mothers	freq.
Jan	20		Maritje / Marijtje / Maartje	14
Pieter	12		Antje (8) / Anna (1)	9
Klaas	11		Grietje	8
Cornelis	7		Jantje / Jannetje	7
Dirk	6		Neeltje	7
Jacob	6		Trijntje	7
Ariën (4) / Adrianus (1)	5		Dieuwertje	6
Gerrit	4		Elisabeth / Lijsbeth	6
Simon / Sijmen	3		Aafje	5
Abraham	2		Geertje / Gerritje	5
Aris	2		Guurtje	4
Joris	2		Aaltje	2
Maarten	2		Ariaantje	2
Arend	1		Cornelisje	2
Elias	1		Dirkje	2
Floris	1		Immetje	2
Hendrik	1		Aagje / Agatha	1
Herke	1		Geesje	1
Hermen	1		Hiltje	1
Ide	1		Meinouwtje	1
Matthijs	1		Reinouwtje	1
Nien	1		Sijtje	1
Outjert	1		Vokeltje	1
Reijer	1		Wijntje	1
Rens	1
Sijbrand	1
Willem	1

Chapters and Chronology

(updated March 17)
For my new English Oera Linda translation, I plan the chapter division listed below.

The translation is presented in the original order of the manuscript. A more structured and chronological order may provide a better reading experience:

Historical narratives (add descriptions)
(most years are rough estimates)

1) 2200 to 2100 BCE (15 pages)
 § 7 – 8 [047/06 – 061/27]

2) 1650 to 1550 BCE (21 pages)
 § 9ab [061/28 – 071/29]
 § 4de [033/22 – 040/10]
 § 9c [072/05 – 075/07]

3) 1200 BCE (4 pages)
 § 10ab [075/08 – 079/10]

4) 600 to 500 BCE (31 pages)
 § 11 [079/11 – 087/18]
 § 15c [141/26 – 142/01]
 § 12 [087/19 – 089/32]
 § 1 [001/01 – 005/28]
 § 13b [091/11 – 097/27]
 § 13a [090/01 – 091/11]
 § 13e [106/10 – 113/21]

5) 350 to 50 BCE (68 pages)
 § 14ab [113/23 – 118/31]
 § 14e [130/21 – 131/25]
 § 16d [163/10 – 168/19]
 § 14d [120/10 – 130/20]
 § 14c [118/32 – 120/10]
 § 14f [131/26 – 133/26]
 § 15a [133/17 – 134/21]
 § 16abc [143/01 – 163/09]
 § 15d [142/01 – 142/32]
 § 17 – 19 [168/20 – 210/32]

Other

6) Mythology, theology, teachings (24 pages)
 §2abc [005/30 – 011/11]
 §6 [045/01 – 047/04]
 §13cd [097/29 – 106/09]
 §15b [134/22 – 141/25]

7) Laws, regulations, justice (27 pages)
 §2d – 4c [011/13 – 033/21]
 §5 [040/11 – 044/27]


CONTENT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - manuscript [page/line]

Letters of Instruction 
 A Hidde Oera Linda, 1256 CE- - - - - - [00a/01] - [00a/23]
 B Liko Ovira Linda, 803 CE - - - - - - [00b/01] - [00b/25]

The Book of Adela Followers
 1 - Introduction
 -a- Council in Confusion, ca. 560 BCE- [001/01] - [001/15]
 -b- Adela’s Advice - - - - - - - - - - [001/16] - [005/08]
 -c- Names of the Reeves- - - - - - - - [005/08] - [005/28]
 2 - On the Walls of Three Burgs
 -a- Vesta, Take up your Stylus - - - - [005/30] - [006/11]
 -b- Our Primal History - - - - - - - - [006/12] - [006/32]
 -c1 Lyda was Black - - - - - - - - - - [007/01] - [007/29]
 --2 Finda was Yellow - - - - - - - - - [007/30] - [009/17]
 --3 Frya was White - - - - - - - - - - [009/18] - [011/11]
 -d- Frya’s Tex - - - - - - - - - - - - [011/13] - [014/08]
 -e1 Vesta: Laws- - - - - - - - - - - - [014/09] - [014/22]
 --2 Vesta: Frya’s Day - - - - -  - - - [014/23] - [014/31]
 3 - Laws and Regulations
 -a- Burg Laws- - - - - - - - - - - - - [015/01] - [019/07]
 -b- General Laws - - - - - - - - - - - [019/08] - [021/14]
 -c1 Laws for Army and War- - - - - - - [021/15] - [023/06]
 --2 Mother and Kings at War- - - - - - [023/07] - [025/03]
 --3 Security and War Aftermath - - - - [025/04] - [026/20]
 4 - From Minos' Writings
 -a- Minos: Preventing War- - - - - - - [026/21] - [027/10]
 -b- Laws for the Steersmen - - - - - - [027/12] - [029/10]
 -c1 Minos: Useful Precedents - - - - - [029/12] - [031/03]
 --2 Minos: Laws- - - - - - - - - - - - [031/04] - [032/01]
 --3 Minos: Aewa- - - - - - - - - - - - [032/01] - [033/21]
 -d- Minos: Minerva - - - - - - - - - - [033/22] - [039/05]
 -e- Minos: Kreta - - - - - - - - - - - [039/05] - [040/10]
 5 - Justice
 -a1 Three Principles - - - - - - - - - [040/11] - [040/25]
 --2 Regulations and Penalties- - - - - [040/26] - [042/09]
 -b1 Punishments for Wrathful People- - [042/10] - [042/32]
 --2 Punishments for Evildoers- - - - - [043/01] - [044/06]
 -c- Three Thieves- - - - - - - - - - - [044/07] - [044/27]
 6-- Yule, Script, Numbers- - - - - - - [045/01] - [047/04]
 7 - Inscribed on all Burgs
 -a- Before the Bad Times - - - - - - - [047/06] - [049/11]
 -b- How Aldland Sank, ca. 2190 BCE - - [049/11] - [050/18]
 8 - Inscribed on the Treasureburg
 -a- Magyars and Finns, ca. 2090 BCE- - [050/19] - [053/12]
 -b1 Wodin and the Magus- - - - - - - - [053/12] - [056/20]
 --2 Tunis and Inka Depart- - - - - - - [056/21] - [057/32]
 --3 Tunis and the Thyrians - - - - - - [058/01] - [060/11]
 -c- The Idolatrous Gols- - - - - - - - [060/12] - [061/27]
 9 - Conflict and Migration, ca. 1630 BCE
 -a1 The War of Kelta and Minerva - - - [061/28] - [065/14]
 -a2 Jon's Revenge- - - - - - - - - - - [065/15] - [066/15]
 -a3 Kelta and the Gols - - - - - - - - [066/15] - [068/16]
 -b- Jon and Minerva Resettle - - - - - [068/17] - [071/29]
 -c- The Gerdmen Move to Punjab - - - - [072/05] - [075/07]
10 - On the Eastern Wall of Fryasburg, ca. 1190 BCE
 -a- Ulysus' Quest for a Lamp - - - - - [075/08] - [076/21]
 -b- Athenia: Racemixing and Decadence- [076/22] - [079/10]
11 - Written on all Burgs, ca. 590 BCE
 -a- Denmarks Lost- - - - - - - - - - - [079/11] - [081/32]
 -b- Death of Frana - - - - - - - - - - [082/01] - [085/11]
 -c- Death of the Magus - - - - - - - - [085/12] - [087/18]

Added by Oera Lindas 
12-- Adelbrost: Intrigues and Division- [087/19] - [089/32]
13 - Added by Apollonia
 -a- Apollania: Adel-Bond Alliance- - - [090/01] - [091/11]
 -b1 Bruno: A Treacherous Maiden- - - - [091/11] - [093/17]
 --2 Death of Adela - - - - - - - - - - [093/18] - [095/19]
 --3 Ode to Adela - - - - - - - - - - - [095/20] - [097/27]
 -c1 Primal Teachings 1 - - - - - - - - [097/29] - [099/32]
 --2 Primal Teachings 2 - - - - - - - - [100/01] - [103/25]
 -d- The Unsociable Man - - - - - - - - [103/26] - [106/09]
 -e1 Apollonia’s Burg - - - - - - - - - [106/10] - [108/27]
 --2 Apollonia’s Journey- - - - - - - - [108/28] - [113/21]
14 - Added by Frederick
 -a- Frederick: Fryasland Swamped - - - [113/23] - [117/20]
 -b- Gosa: Expulsion of the Blacks- - - [117/20] - [118/31]
 -c- A Fleet Arrives- - - - - - - - - - [118/32] - [120/10]
 -d1 Alexander the King - - - - - - - - [120/10] - [125/05]
 --2 Demetrius and Friso- - - - - - - - [125/05] - [130/20]
 -e- Northland- - - - - - - - - - - - - [130/21] - [131/25]
 -f- Defects of the Brokmen - - - - - - [131/26] - [133/26]
15 - Added by Wilyo
 -a- Wilyo from the Saxonmarks- - - - - [133/17] - [134/21]
 -b1 Helena: Princes and Priests- - - - [134/22] - [136/07]
 --2 Yesus or Buddha of Kashmir - - - - [136/08] - [141/25]
 -c- Frana’s Will - - - - - - - - - - - [141/26] - [142/01]
 -d- Gosa’s Will- - - - - - - - - - - - [142/01] - [142/32]
16 - Added by Conrad
 -a- Conrad: Canals and Dykes - - - - - [143/01] - [144/16]
 -b1 Friso: Alliances- - - - - -- - - - [144/17] - [150/19]
 --2 Friso: Praise and Suspicion- - - - [150/19] - [154/17]
 --3 Adel and Ifkia - - - - - - - - - - [154/17] - [157/32]
 -c- Gosa: Purity of Language - - - - - [157/32] - [163/09]
 -d- Ludger: Punjab Report- - - - - - - [163/10] - [168/19]
17-- Bede, Son of Haehgan - - - - - - - [168/20] - [168/32]
 (missing pages: 20)
18-- Rika: Stealing of Titles - - - - - [189/01] - [192/32]
 (missing pages: 2)
19 - The Fourth King after Friso
 -a- Askar Prepares for War - - - - - - [195/01] - [198/19]
 -b- Streams of Blood - - - - - - - - - [198/19] - [202/06]
 -c- Reyntia’s Dream- - - - - - - - - - [202/06] - [204/32]
 -d- Askar Lost to Idolatry - - - - - - [205/01] - [207/14]
 -e- How Punishment Came- - - - - - - - [207/14] - [208/17]
 -f- Askar’s Failure- - - - - - - - - - [208/17] - [210/32]
 (missing pages: ?)

Inventory of other Oera Linda translations

[Spanish translation of 2013 added June, 2024] 

*** for a list of online publications about Oera Linda, go here ***

Mine (read online or buy printed copy/PDF) is the first English translation straight from the original language, as the one by Sandbach (1876) was based on the first Dutch one by Ottema (1872). The Sandbach translation was the basis for most other (non-Dutch/German) ones.

The earlier translations (known to me) that were straight from the original language are:

Dutch:
Ottema - 1872, 1876
Overwijn - 1941, 1951
Jensma - 2006 (1)
De Heer - 2008 (2)
(1) This is the only translation that was based on the assumption that the text is a 19th Century forgery, meant as a joke.
(2) Translation is mostly based on Overwijn but uses unique Yule-font for transcription of the original text.

German:
Wirth - 1933 (some parts were left out)
Menkens - 2013

Norse and improvised English:
Lien - 2013 (web-only)

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Chronological list of Oera Linda translations (known to me)

year	author	language	title	publisher
1872/ 1876	J.G. Ottema	Dutch	Thet Oera Linda Bok	H. Kuipers, Leeuwarden (1, 2)
1876	W.R. Sandbach(1)	English	The Oera Linda Book	Trübner & co., London
1933	H. Wirth(2)	German	Die Ura Linda Chronik	Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig
1941/ 1951	J.F. Overwijn	Dutch	Het Oera Linda Boek	N.V. Enkhuizer Courant/ Chefferd/ web-PDF
1963	E. Sturm	German	Die Oera Linda Handschriften	typewriter copy
1983	F.H. Pierce	English	The Œra Linda Book	typewriter copy
1992	U. & J. Hamilton	Swedish	Oera-Linda : en Fornfrisisk Krönika	Cradle Publications
1998	A. Snyman	Afrikaans	Die Oera Linda boek	Vaandel-Uitgewers, Mosselbaai
2004	A. Soldani	Italian	Oera Linda il libro, pagine di storia dimenticate	web-only
2006	G. Jensma	Dutch	Het Oera Linda-boek	Verloren, Hilversum
2007	J. Fermaut(3)	French	Le livre des Oera Linda	selfpublished, Bierne
2008	S. de Heer(4)	Dutch	Ћet Oera Linda Bok	self-published, Amsterdam
2012	A. Pietrykowska	Polish	Ksiñega Oera Linda	Armoryka, Sandomierz
2013	H. Menkens	German	Die Oera-Linda-Handschriften	Lühe-Verlag, Süderbrarup
2013	H. Garbho	Spanish	Oera Linda	Aurea Catena Editores, Chile
2013	H.O. Lien	Norse/ (English)	Oera Linda-boka/ (The Oera Linda Book)	web-only
2017	D. Campayo Bustos	Spanish	Oera Linda - un manuscrito del siglio XIII	web-only
2018	Adel Brost (pseudonym)	German	Oera Linda Buch	web-only
2020	Ανωνυμου	Greek	Το βιβλίο του Oera Linda - Μαρτυρες Της Αντλαντιδας	Υπατια Λυδια
2021/ 2022	Jan Ott	English	Codex Oera Linda (various editions)	oeralinda.org

(1) Translation of Ottema (1872).
(2) Wirth left out some parts.
(3) Translation of Ottema (1876?).
(4) Bewerking van Overwijn (1951).

Note: the English translation that was published as an appendix to "Survivors of the Great Tsunami" (2010/2011) and "Chronicles from pre-Celtic Europe" (renamed third edition, 2014), self-published by A.J. Raubenheimer were edited versions of the Sandbach translation.

Some of the translations in my collection:

Other:

THJANJA - Diana - dienen

Diana as witch on St. Nicholas altar piece
of 1485, Mühlhausen, Thüringen Germany
(full altar and description below)

Diana is well known as the goddess of hunt, the moon, childbirth, women and nature from Roman mythology. Along with Minerva and Vesta, she was one of the three maiden goddesses, who had sworn never to marry. Less known is that in medieval Germany she was considered mistress of witches and still as dea paganorum: pagan goddess, hundreds of years after the Romans had left.

Was Diana introduced into Germany by the Romans, or had she been a Germanic deity or Mother long before the Romans came?


Wikipedia:

Diana was worshipped at a festival on August 13, when King Servius Tullius, himself born a slave, dedicated her temple on the Aventine Hill in the mid-6th century BC. Being placed on the Aventine, and thus outside the pomerium, meant that Diana's cult essentially remained a foreign one, like that of Bacchus; she was never officially transferred to Rome as Juno was after the sack of Veii. It seems that her cult originated in Aricia, (...)

German Wikipedia (translated):

Nothing was passed down about an initial Diana myth - independent of Greek mythology -, as Diana was identified very early already  and almost completely with the Greek Artemis. The Greek myths were adopted with substitution of the Greek deities by their Roman equivalents.

In the Oera Linda-book, a female deity or divine Mother Thjanja is mentioned along with Frya, Fàsta, Médéa, "and many others" (fragment below). This name also appears many times in the manuscript as verb, meaning to serve, which still has equivalents in several North European languages:

dienen - Dutch, German
tsjinje - Frisian
tjene - Danish, Norwegian
tjäna - Swedish
þjóna, thjóna - Icelandic

Diana by Paul Bergon (1863-1912)

A Dutch female name is Dina (varieties Dine, Diena, Dientje, etc.; perhaps also Tina, Tinka, Tanja, etc.). Origin and meaning are unclear among the specialists. I would suggest that like Diana, it is derived from thiania: dienen.

Oldfrisian dictionaries

Wiarda (1786)
tinia, tyena, thiania - to serve
thianst, thianest - service
thianster - witch (!)

Hettema (1832)
thiania, tjaenje - to serve
thiansta, tjaenst - service, servant
thianster, tjaonster - witch (!)

Richthofen (1840)
thiania, tienia - to serve
thianer, tiener - servant
thianost, thianest, thianst, tienst - service

Note that in OLB the spelling for witch (besides HEX) is "THJONSTER", and no relation to "THJANJA" (to serve) is suggested: [034/15] AS THV THÀN NÉN THJONSTER NE BISTE


Fragment in Oera Linda-book

[132/21]
HWERSA IMMAN EN BYLD MÁKATH ÀFTER ÉNNEN VRSTURVEN ÀND THET LIKT
SÁ LÁWATH HJA THÀT THENE GÁST THES VRSTURVENE THÉR INNE FÁRATH.
THÉRVR HÀVATH HJA ALLE BYLDA VRBURGEN. 
FON FRYA. FÀSTA. MÉDÉA. THJANJA. HELLÉNJA ÀND FÉLO ÔTHERA.

(translation Ott, not yet published:)
When someone makes an image of a dead person and it shows a good likeness, 
they believe that the ghost of the departed resides in it. 
They therefore hide all images 
of Frya, Festa, Medea, Diana, Hellenia and many others.

(translation Sandbach, 1876:)
When they make a statue of a dead person 
they believe that the spirit of the departed enters into it; 
therefore they have hidden their statues 
of Frya, Fâsta, Medea, Thiania, Hellenia, and many others.

(For other fragments with THJANJA used as verb, see post of March 30, 2012.)

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HEX, HEXNA and the six-spoke wheel

hexagon and hexagram

Varieties in the Oera Linda-book

noun
HEX (3), plur. HEXNA (4) - witch, sorceress

verb
HÉDE HEXNAD (1), HETH BIHEXNATH (2) - had/has (be)witched, hexed
(infinitive would have been HEXNA)

Note: another word for sorceress or witch in OLB is THJONSTER (used once).

OLB fragments with new translations

1 [034/10]
THÁ GVNGON HJA HJA BIHLVDA ÀND SÉIDON THAT HJU.T FOLK HEXNAD HÉDE.
they started accusing her and said she had bewitched the folk.

Olaus Magnus 1555 depicted witches
causing bad weather and cattle disease

2 [064/28]
MEN MIN.ERVA HETH AL.ET FOLK BIHEXNATH. JES BIHEXNATH FRJUNDA. IVIN AS AL VS FJA THÀT LÀSTEN STURVEN IS.
but Minerva has hexed all the folk - yes hexed, my friends - just like all our cattle that died lately.

3 [065/01]
IK SKOLDE THJU HEX IN HJARA NEST VRBARNE.
I would burn that witch in her nest.

4 [133/10]
ÔLON LÁWATH HJA AN BOSA GÁSTA. HEXNA. KOLLA. ULDERMANKES.
ÀND ELFUN AS JEF HJA FON THA FINNA WEI KÉMEN.
They persistently believe in evil ghosts, witches, sorcerers, forest spirits
and elves as if they stemmed from the Finns.
 

Hexology by J. Ott a.o.

Varieties in modern languages

Hexe	behexen/verhexen	German
heks(e)	hekse	Frisian
häxa	förhäxa	Swedish
heks	beheksen	Dutch
heks	forhekse	Danish, Norse

The assumption of some etymologists that the word would be derived from 'hagazussa' (Hague-/ hedge-sister) or 'hagetisse' (lizard), is probably based on medieval folk-etymology. A relation to Greek ἕξ (hex): "six" and the six-spoke wheel makes more sense.

Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs

As de zunne schient en het regent, 

dan wörde zegd deur olde meinzen: 

de heksen bint an het pannekoe 

(Dwingeloo)