It appeared that the tradition rests upon the contents of two letters, with which the manuscript begins, from hiddo oera linda, anno 1256, and from liko oera linda, anno 803. Oera linda frisian nonsense christogenea community forum. The oera linda book has greatly influenced the liberal new age movement and is the source of many of wiccas basic ideas. The oera linda book has a long and controversial history. Download ebooks about the various mysteries and conspiracies surrounding our earth, such as the ancient city of atlantis, flat earth theory, and, theories about the interior of the earth. The oera linda book speaks of an ancient civilization of farmers and sailors whose society once expanded across europe into russia and north africa. Ottema, the oera linda book records the history of the people of a large island called atland, which was roughly on the same latitude as the british isles, in what is now the north sea in other words, off the coast of modern holland. You say it is difficult to prove a hoax, yet you find it easy to dismiss the oera linda book.
How to deal with holy books in an age of emerging science. European prehistory and the oera linda book robert sepehr the frisians are a germanic ethnic group indigenous to the coastal parts of the netherlands, scandinavia, and northwestern germany. Atland is a place name mentioned in the oera linda book that has been equated by some with atlantis, thus placing platos story somewhere in the region of the north sea. In english, it has been incorporated into the other atlantis by roger scrutton neville spearman sphere 19771979. The oera linda book, first translated into english from the dutch in 1876, has been universally condemned as a hoax and an impudent imposture by the guardians of scientific and archaeological orthodoxy ever since it was translated into english more than a century ago. Oera linda book the oera linda book forgery or fact there exists one very old frisian manuscript named the oera linda book.
While a dutch translation appeared in 1871, it was not until 1876 that the first english translation of the oera linda book by william r. Beginning in the 1970s, robert scrutton used it as evidence for atlantis, tony steele used it to support neopaganism, and some neonazi groups continue to accept it, largely because himmler loved it. Oera linda bok, meditation, enlightenment, gurdjieff. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The oera linda book, from a manuscript of the thirteenth. The oera linda book very long graham hancock official. It also describes a lost land called atland the name given to atlantis by the 17th century scholar olof rudbeck, which was supposedly submerged in 2194 bc, the same year as 19th century dutch and frisian almanacs, following traditional biblical chronology given for noahs flood. This is intriguing because, even if a forgery, the oera linda book predates the origin of the modern atlantis craze, which began with ignatius donnellys atlantis, the antediluvian world, published in 1882. The oera linda book is a manuscript written in a form of old frisian, purporting to cover historical, mythological, and religious themes of remote antiquity. Thanks to himmlers efforts, the oera linda book retained a patina of forbidden knowledge. Very few people believe it is a genuine manuscript handed down from heathen times generation to generation until today. It continues to attract opprobrium and censure whenever, or wherever, it is mentioned. The oera linda book, sometimes referred as the uralinda chronicle, is a highly controversial book from holland that occasionally is referred to in books and articles relating to atlantis. The shallow areas of the north sea off holland, germany, england and scandinavia have been proposed as the site of a sunken civilization that may have been atlantis.
World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and. Although the last chapter actually the first chapter of it was written 1256 ad, it was composed to its preserved form 803 ad. The mosaic kind of book is difficult to understand but contains authentic facts. It is claimed to be one of the oldest books ever discovered. The book is an indepth historical, archaeological and scientific investigation into the oera linda book and has nothing to do with the paranormal or any esoteric ideas. There exists one very old frisian manuscript named the oera linda book. Its hard to find books such as this one that not only seriously considers atlantis to be quite possible but finds and presents many facts and ideas to validate the atland variant of atlantis using the infamous oera linda document as a focus for language, history, biology and geology to support the idea of a real protohistorical atlantic maritime civilization with a major. The reference date is the submergence of atland, a lost land in the north sea, which, according to the book, occurred in 2193 bce.
The oera linda book, free pdf, ebook, epub global grey. Archivedoera linda book and the great flood ancient. Oera linda book and the great flood part 3 page 17. It is about a lost manuscript handed down and copied over the years by descendants of the frisian people of holland. For more detailed information on the oera linda book see jans blog. The oera linda book says that friso was descended from a frisian colony that settled in the punjab about 1550 bc. The oera linda book is not an easy book to categorise. The legend around the oera linda book is full of controversy and claimed by some to be a fake. As i am also a photography enthusiast myself i find the video fascinating. If so, aree those beliefs shaped in any major way by the oera linda. But there is a more troubling link between the two countries. Among academics in germanic philology, the document is widely considered to be a hoax or forgery. The oera linda book also claims that europe was ruled by a mostly peaceful, just matriarchy for most of its history, and that the frisians invented writing. The oera linda book is a controversial manuscript, dated 1256, from the frisian region of the netherlands.
Oera linda boek oder himmlers bibel genannt ist eine. Therefore, some words in the oera linda will be authentic and constantly rewritten. Contains the various texts of the oera linda book translation sandbach 1876 and scruttons commentary to them. Purporting to be an episodic chronicle of wars and migrations of the frisian people, the oera linda book describes events dated very precisely from 2194 bce to 803 ce. The oera linda book also speaks at length of alexander the great. Oera linda research, translation and discussion by jan ott.
It is true that the netherlands of polders might one day know the fate of atlantis. Its forewords were written in ad 1256, although its main section was a diary kept about 2000 years, which was put. Even though the oera linda book has been dismissed as a modern forgery, it has been called himmlers bible. From this writing it appears that it was land stretching far out to the west of jutland, of which. The oera linda book is a manuscript written in old frisian. The sensational implications of this book are best conveyed by simply quoting from the front and back cover. The pure friesic and easy wording of the oera linda book must be most welcome to students of english and saxon, as a widening of the now too narrow ground of the early speech of our forefathers. You picked a bad example there, because the more you read the oera linda book the more you realise that it is a genuine history with dates, separate from and starting earlier than the classical tradition, which begins with mythology. The last two sections of the oera linda book contain a number of lacunae and the book itself breaks off in midsentence. The oera linda book, from a manuscript of the thirteenth century by j. Oera linda book oera linda book the oera linda book full english translation alongside the original frisian text, with facsimiles of every page of the manuscript. The oera linda book also claims that europe was ruled by a mostly peaceful, just matriarchy for most of its history, and that the. The oera linda book is a manuscript written in a form of old frisian, purporting to cover historical, mythological, and religious themes of remote antiquity, from 2194 bce to 803 ce.
The oera linda book is a manuscript written in a form of old frisian, purporting to cover. This is intriguing because, even if a forgery, the oera linda book predates the origin of the modern atlantis craze, which began with ignatius. The oera linda book, sometimes referred as the uralinda chronicle. Purporting to be an episodic chronicle of wars and migrations of the frisian people, the oera linda book describes events dated from 2194 bce to 803 ce. Robert scrutton wrote two books 117118 devoted to the oera linda book and its connection with atlantis. Another fun piece of old cthulhu lore the oera linda book posted on november 6, 2015 by d.
This is based on the paper which the manuscript is written on, as well as internal and linguistic evidence. Its forewords were written in ad 1256, although its main section was a diary kept about 2000 years, which was put together 560558 bc. The oera linda book discovered in holland in the 1700s spoke of a sunken land off the frisian islands of holland. Nazis, atlantis and ancient aliens malcolm nicholson. Entitled the other atlantis, it was an instant bestseller and once again the authenticity of the frisian text was debated by scholars and historians. European prehistory and the oera linda book blogger. A mysterious dutch book, the oera linda boek, gives a detailed and puzzling description of the different episodes of a global turmoil, dated at 2193. Themes include the oera linda book, the ahnenerbe, ariosophy, theosophy, germanism, paganism, positive eugenics, the myth of the twentieth century, the polar homeland, ancient civilizations, and. Nazi archaeology and the oera linda book jason colavito.
Snyman used the oera linda book to advance his own political agenda. Their homeland is a place called atland, which can reasonably be correlated to atlantis, and is presumed to lie beneath the waves of the northern atlantic, save perhaps for a few. It is a story of before the english channel was formed which makes it before the ice age. The wiccan myth that secret pagan knowledge was passed down from generation to generation to today comes largely from the oera linda book. The book was forgotten until 1977 when ancient mysteries writer robert scrutton took it upon himself to write a lengthy commentary and introduction for an abridged edition of the oera linda book. Today, it is conventionally agreed to be a forgery, written during the mid19th century. Against the prevailing opinion of historians, there are many reasons to believe that the oera linda book is one of the most important books about european history from about 3000 bc to at least to about 500 bc. From a manuscript of the thirteenth century 1876 illustrated and annotated atlantis mythology, island character and reference texts and sources kindle edition by wiliam r. If the oera linda is true, then all our preconceptions about prehistoric europe collapse. Goffe jensma, 2007 introduction in the world history of literary forgeries, hoaxes and mystifications the nineteenth century oera linda book is not a wellknown case.
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