Interview by Niels Lunsing and Merlyn van Dobben (Gletsjer Radio), in Dutch language, with subtitles in English and Dutch (German, Swedish and Danish to be added soon — credits to our volunteers!):
Part One about Oera Linda, in which some new information is revealed, not discussed earlier in interviews.
Part Two about Jan Ott, with more personal and 'unscientific' information.
1) Compilation of Frijsia Festival performance, in Warns (near Stavoren), 24 September 2022. With Rypke Zeilmaker. About 'Subsidiefries' and with a translated (into Dutch) fragment about Frya. Subtitles in Dutch, English, Danish and Swedish (German to be added later).*
2) Subtitled selection of audio-only podcast (interview by Niels Lunsing) from 'De Andere Krant', recorded January 9. Full recording here. Subtitles in Dutch, English, German, Danish and Swedish.* (*with thanks to our Danish volunteer for helping make the subtitles)
3) Second Dutch studio interview at 'V for Valentine' (by Boris van de Ven), recorded January 25. A subtitled version will be added later to our video channel.
4) Recorded Dutch online chat at Gletscher Radio (Niels Lunsing and Merlyn van Dobben), recorded 14 February. A subtitled version in two parts will be released on our video channel. First 45 minutes is about Oera Linda and includes topics that were not discussed earlier. The last 30 minutes are more personal, about consciousness and 'coincidences'.
Oera Linda Foundation:
1) Web domain has changed from oeralinda.nl into oeralinda.org.
3) An Oera Linda wiki has been added: https://wiki.oeralinda.org. Here the most up to date revision of the translation can be navigated, either in the original order, or in the alternative (more chronological) order, with links to transliteration and manuscript pages. Other sections contain lists of names and places as well as word studies. Much more will be added here. We intend to move (or copy) improved versions of the best posts from this blog there.
4) An Oera Linda font, 'Fryas Standskrift' was designed by our Danish volunteer and can be downloaded for free, either in the webshop, or on the new wiki which has more information and a second font, 'Wagumskrift'.
To be expected:
1) First presentation to public will be in Joure, Friesland on 29 March (in Dutch language), at Stichting In-zicht. More information and ticket reservation here.
2) A free PDF and EPUB version of the fully revised translation (without transliteration and manuscript pages) will be created and made available.
3) Application for 'ANBI' status ('Public Benefit Organisation') of the Foundation is being prepared.
4) Fryas language course (audiovisual), making use of the the 'Fryas Standskrift'.
Some cognates: verb:
(be)duiden - Dutch (point to, refer to, suggest, explain, clarify/ signify, indicate, signal, foreshadow)
(be)deuten - German (mean, imply etc./ interpret, point at)
ge-ðiodan - Od English (i.e. 'translate')
þýða - Old Norse noun:
(Be)deutung - German (interpretation, analysis/ meaning, sense, meaning, significance, importance)
duiding - Dutch (the act of providing meaning or context to help others understand) adjective:
duidelijk - Dutch (clear, precise, obvious)
deutlich - German (articulate, clear, distinct, considerable)
4g. Crete
[039/20]
THA FORSTA ÀND PRESTERA KÉMON BÁRJA THÀT WI HJARA TJVTH OVERHÉRICH MAKAD HÉDE ÀND THÀT FOLK KÉM TO VS VMBE HUL ÀND SKUL.
The princes and priests came and charged that we had made their people[i.e. Cretans] unruly, and the folk came to us for aid and protection.
8a. Magyars and Finns
[052/20]
ÀND HJARA TJOTH HILDON HJA IMMERTHE BINNA THA PÉLON. MEN THAT VRSKALKTON VSA WÁKENDOM.
And they [i.e. the Magyars] always kept their populace[i.e. the Finns] within their boundaries. But that made us complacent.
13d. Ode to Adela
[097/10]
THA FÉRHÉMANDA HÉRA KÉMON HJARA THJUD ASKJA. THÁ HJA SAGON HO SKOTS HJA MISDÉN WÉRON KÉM TORN VP.
Their foreign masters came to look for them [lit.: 'for their people', i.e. three Phoenician sailors] and, seeing how they had been humiliated, became furious.
13i. Apollania’s Journey
[113/05]
DVATH HJA ALSA. [10] SÁ SKILUN THA WICHANDLIKA KNÁPA TO VS KVMA. HJA SKILUN WISER WÀRTHA ÀND RIKKAR. ÀND WI NE SKILUN NÉN BIHOF LONGER NAVT NÀVE AN THÀT WLA THJUD.
If they do so, the boldest young men will come to us. They shall become wiser and richer, and we shall no longer have need of those useless types[lit.: 'that foul/vile folk'].
19f. Askar’s Failure
[209/05]
THA [10] FOLKAR THAM AN HIM PÁLADON. HÉTON HJARA SELVA THJOTH.HIS SVNA THAT IS FOLK.HIS SVNA.
The peoples closest to him called themselves‘Thioth’s Sons’ (Teutons) — that is ‘folk’s sons’.
1b. Adela’s Advice
[002/15]
THÉR HÉRDON HJA MITH LUSTUM NÉI THA VRDWÁLSKA [20] FINNA SÁGUM. THRVCHDAM HJA THJVD ÀND NÉI WÉRON. SÁ SEND HJA VNT.FRYA.ST VNTHÔNKES THENE WALD HJARAR ALDRUM. (the manuscript has twice ÀND after THJVD, which I think is a more common copyist error. Overwijn read this as THJVDAND ÀND NÉI. Menckens also read 'thjudänd' as one word.) There, they listened eagerly to the outrageous sagas of the Finns, because they were exotic and new. This is how, despite the authority of their parents, they lost their Fryas identity.
16e. Gosa: Purity of Language
[159/15]
IN HJARA TSJOD.IS.HÉD SEND HJA TO GVNGEN ÀND HÀVON ÔTHERA TÁLA FORSVNNEN
TILTHJU HJA HÉMLIK MACHTE SPRÉKA IN [20] ÀJENWARTHA FON ALREK ÔTHERUM. VR ALLE BOSA THINGA ÀND VR ALLE VNWÉRTHLIKA THINGA SVNDER THÀT STEMLÉTH HJAM VRRÉDA MOCHT NACH SKÁMRÁD HJARA GELÁT VRDERVA. In their wickedness, they went about inventing different languages, so as to speak secretly in the presence of others about all evil things and about all unworthy things without a stammer betraying them or a blush tainting their visage.
19c. Reintia’s Dream
[204/20]
BY THA TWISK.LANDAR SEND FÉLO TJODA PLÉGA FON THA TARTARUM ÀND MAGJARA BINNA GLUPTH MEN ÁK FÜL SEND [25] THÉR FON VSA SÉDUM BILÉWEN.
THÉR THRVCH HÀVATH HJA JETA FÁMNA THÉR THA BERN LÉRA ÀND THA ALDA RÉD JEVA. Among the Twisklander, many alien habits had crept in from the Tartars and Magyars, but many of our customs remained. Hence, they still have maidens who teach the children and advise the old.
19d. Askar Lost to Idolatry
[205/15]
FRÉTHO.GUNSTA KÉM EN JÉR LÉTER TO STÁVEREN. BI HJARA FOLGAR WÉRE ÁK ÉNEN MÁGÍ HWAND THA JUTTAR WÉRON [15] SUNT LÔNG VRBRUD. KIRT AFTER THÀT ÁSKAR MITH FRÉTHO.GUNSTA BOSTIGJATH WAS WÀRTH THÉR TO STÁVEREN ÉNE SCHERKE BVWED. INNA THJU SCHERKE WRDON TJODA DROCHTEN LÍKANDA BYLDON [20] STALTH. MITH GOLD TRVCH WROCHTNE KLÁTHAR.
ÁK IS ER BIWÉRATH THAT ÁSKAR THÉR NACHTIS ÀND VNTÍDIS MITH FRÉTHO.GUNSTA FÁR NITHER BUWGADE. Frethogunsta came to Staveren one year later. Among her followers was a magus, for the Jutters had long been corrupted. Shortly after the marriage of Askar and Frethogunsta, a temple was built at Staveren, in which strange idols were placed, clothed in garments embroidered with gold. There were rumors that Askar would bow down to them with Frethogunsta at night and at ungodly times.
'Tsjoed' in (modern) Frisian means 'wrong', 'bad', 'evil'.
On the Tschuden/Chuds wiki: (German): "Die mündliche Überlieferung der Samen und nördlichen Karelier ist reich an Geschichten über als Tschuden bezeichnete Räuber und Feinde" (translated: "Oral tradition of the Sami and northern Karelians abounds with stories of robbers and enemies known as Chuds") // (English): "another hypothesis contends that it is derived from the Sami word tshudde or čuđđe, meaning an enemy or adversary"
THJONSTER is 'sorceress' and THJUSTER(NESSE) is 'dark(ness)', mostly used in negative context.
Overwijn (1941, pp. xxxviii-ix) refers to Tsjoedi/Tsjoegi/Tsoegi => tsigoe, tsigeu => Tsigane, Tsigoin, Zigeun(er); i.e. 'gypsy'. Overwijn (1951, p. 90c) "de verzamelnaam voor Finnen, Letten, Esthen en Lappen in het Russisch is: Tsjoedskïï" van "Tsjodis of Tsjoedis".
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If 2) means 'foreign people' (in a negative sense: unwelcome here), 3) could originally mean 'of the foreign people' in short 'foreign' or 'strange', but in a negative sense: 'alien'.
I think 'Tschuden' can be explained from the Fryas word. But I don't see a clear link between 1) and 2)/3) yet.
C.H.U.D. (1984) - Trailer
4f. Minerva [035/05] "a certain kind of people wander the earth, who, [...] house themselves in temples and caves, gnawing in the dark. [...] to invent deceptions, to rob other people of their knowledge so they can more easily seize and enslave them, and suck their blood like leeches"
