Oera Linda Book and the Great Flood [Part 2]

[Abramelin]

The Franks moved into that area by crossing the Rhine. From Twiskland, to Aachen, then spread more as they took over more.

It's in the time of Adel accordingly in the OLB.

Whose is 'they'? You think it's the Franks? I think it's Adel and Ifkja. That's what the whole chapter is about. The tour of duty he did, like Apollonia did.

In the same way as Apollonia, they visited Lydasburgt and the Alderga. Afterwards they made a tour of all the neighbourhood of Stavera. They behaved with so much amiability, that everywhere the people wished to keep them. Three months later, Adel sent messengers to all the friends that he had made, requesting them to send to him their “wise men” in the month of May

I understand your point, it seems like it's the Franks but on reading it over, I don't think it is.

From the OLB:

The Twisklanders who had done the wicked deed called themselves Frijen or Franken.

And that should be "Franks", the English plural. Sandbach wasn't a genius concerning language.

But if you don't believe in what the OLB says about them, then what are we talking about?

Anyway, 600 BCE there were no "Franks".

[Abramelin]

aqua-

word-forming element meaning "water," from Latin aqua "water; the sea; rain," cognate with Proto-Germanic *akhwo, source of Old English ea "river," Gothic ahua "river, waters," Old Norse Ægir, name of the sea-god, Old English ieg "island;" all from PIE *akwa- "water" (cf. Sanskrit ap "water," Hittite akwanzi "they drink," Lithuanian uppe "a river").

http://www.etymonlin...x.php?term=aqua-

A Proto-Germanic word too. Depends if you think Latin was the first to have this meaning and word.

No, it's the Romans who gave that town its name.

[Apol]

To start with the Angelfire/Sandbach translation: it has been wrong so many times, it is just incredible.

It's not "towards the lowlands/delta" but "back to the lowlands/delta" or "returned to the lowlands/delta"

Second: you can find archeological evidence of human occupation in the area of The Hague of many millennia ago.

Third: the name of the Marsatii is supposed to mean 'people living on lakes/marshes'. So they could be those living directly south of Lake Flevo, or those near Switzerland. It's much like saying their name was "Farmers".

Fourth: they pulled up along the South Rhine, which is most probably the Waal river. Just another name a of branch of the river Rhine in the Netherlands.

Fifth: show me a delta/lowland near Aken, Germany. The German Aken is located at the foothills of the Ardennes, it's a mountainous area, not much of a delta or lowland there.

The area of The Hague was near the Meuse/Rhine delta.

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This is not about some sea, it is about a lake and/or moors, bogs.

Jesus, Apol, where is that 'sea'?

And where did you get the "60 km west of the Rhine" from?

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Yes, of course, 'Abramelin', it's 'Lake Dwellers'. Sorry, I was absent for a moment. Thx for correcting me.

But where are the mountains and the closeness to the Near Krêkalanders in the Rhine-Maas delta? :

Above the Rêna [Rhine], between the mountains, there I have seen lake-dwellers [marsacii]. The lake-dwellers, that is people who live on the lakes. ... And they are the neighbours, or adjacent ones of the Hêinde Krêkalandar [italians], the Kælta-followers and the savage Twiskers

Adel, Jfkja and their followers were on their way from Bodenzee to the delta when they passed Aachen.

Aachen in Nordrhein-Westfalen is situated approximately 60 km as the crow flies from the Rhine.

I also doubt the ability to extract very much gold from the waters of the Rhine as far down the river as in the delta - it might have been a grain or two twice a year, or so. I would think the gold must have been deposited in the riverbed long before the water reached the lowlands. When tourists are panning for gold in the Rhine today, they do it in the borderland between Switzerland and Germany;

http://www.myswitzer...gold-gusti.html

I think they would have been utterly exhausted if they were to catch gold in the delta:

http://commons.wikim...old_washing.jpg

Edited March 7, 2013 by Apol

[The Puzzler]

From the OLB:

The Twisklanders who had done the wicked deed called themselves Frijen or Franken.

And that should be "Franks", the English plural. Sandbach wasn't a genius concerning language.

But if you don't believe in what the OLB says about them, then what are we talking about?

Anyway, 600 BCE there were no "Franks".

I know it's Franks. The word in the OLB is Franka so maybe Franken is right.

I do believe what the OLB says. I don't think however that passage in question refers to them (Twisklanders/Franken) going to Alderga, Lydasburgt or touring Stavera. That is Adel and his wife imo.

I do think they (Twisklanders/Franks) did cross the Rhine into Aachen and proceeded to move west and north as time went on, settling into the whole area eventually.

Is Adel in 600BC?

Edited March 7, 2013 by The Puzzler

[The Puzzler]

Here's an interesting article about the lake dwellers of Helvetia.

http://www.oldandsol...zerland-2.shtml

No, it's the Romans who gave that town its name.

Yeah, sure they did.

Edited March 7, 2013 by The Puzzler

[Apol]

Here's an interesting article about the lake dwellers of Helvetia.

http://www.oldandsol...zerland-2.shtml

Yeah, sure they did.

The Romans named it Aquae Granni, yes. As good as all our written sources stem from the Romans and the Greeks. I want to have a written source telling about the place before the Romans came there. But it doesn't exist. We don't know what was the name of Aachen before that time. It was settled by 'Celtic' peoples in the Iron Age, "who were perhaps drawn by the marshy Aachen basin's hot sulphur springs" (Wikipedia). I regard it likely that its name might have had something to do with Aa- (Old Frisian for 'water') - and most probably Aachen (Aken). The locals have certainly called the city by its original name all the time.

The Vietnamese named their capital Ho Chi Minh City after the American War, but that's officially only. When they speak, it's always Saigon.

Edited March 7, 2013 by Apol

[The Puzzler]

The Romans named it Aquae Granni, yes. As good as all our written sources stem from the Romans and the Greeks. I want to have a written source telling about the place before the Romans came there. But it doesn't exist. We don't know what was the name of Aachen before that time. It was settled by 'Celtic' peoples in the Iron Age, "who were perhaps drawn by the marshy Aachen basin's hot sulphur springs" (Wikipedia). I regard it likely that its name might have had something to do with Aa- (Old Frisian for 'water') - and most probably Aachen (Aken). The locals have certainly called the city by its original name all the time.

The Vietnamese named their capital Ho Chi Minh City after the American War, but that's officially only. When they speak, it's always Saigon.

That's all I pretty much meant too. How can we know Romans called this place Aken, Aquae Grannis is not really 'Aken'.

Aa-ken might mean 'to feel or see water' - with ken based in 'to know, perceive, to feel'.

Aken doesn't appear in the Frisian dictionary so could have been a name only word.

It might be co-incidence that ak is in both aqua and Aken but Aken might not mean aqua/water but water/aa+ken

Edited March 7, 2013 by The Puzzler

[The Puzzler]

ken or kenn in Frisian is kinship.

If the A is meaning water - the name could lean towards fellow Fryans/kin of the water (town/citadel).

chen in German actually has a meaning:

http://en.wiktionary...ki/-chen#German

Etymology

Originally from Northern Germany, has today mostly replaced the older -lein. Cognate with Dutch -tje and -ke.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [çn̩], [çən]
  

Suffix

-chen

1. the most common German suffix to create a diminutive form; e.g., Hund → Hündchen
   

Usage notes

Words that end in the suffix -chen always become neuter. This is why the common German word for girl, Mädchen, is neuter and not feminine: the non-diminutive word is feminine: Magd. Words that end in the suffix -chen are identical in the singular and in the plural: das Mädchen is 'the girl', die Mädchen are 'the girls'.

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So, Aachen could just mean 'water'. But not come from Latin aqua.

aa+chen

Edited March 7, 2013 by The Puzzler

[Knul]

Yes, of course, 'Abramelin', it's 'Lake Dwellers'. Sorry, I was absent for a moment. Thx for correcting me.

But where are the mountains and the closeness to the Near Krêkalanders in the Rhine-Maas delta? :

Above the Rêna [Rhine], between the mountains, there I have seen lake-dwellers [marsacii]. The lake-dwellers, that is people who live on the lakes. ... And they are the neighbours, or adjacent ones of the Hêinde Krêkalandar [italians], the Kælta-followers and the savage Twiskers

Adel, Jfkja and their followers were on their way from Bodenzee to the delta when they passed Aachen.

Aachen in Nordrhein-Westfalen is situated approximately 60 km as the crow flies from the Rhine.

I also doubt the ability to extract very much gold from the waters of the Rhine as far down the river as in the delta - it might have been a grain or two twice a year, or so. I would think the gold must have been deposited in the riverbed long before the water reached the lowlands. When tourists are panning for gold in the Rhine today, they do it in the borderland between Switzerland and Germany;

http://www.myswitzer...gold-gusti.html

I think they would have been utterly exhausted if they were to catch gold in the delta:

http://commons.wikim...old_washing.jpg

The Old Frisians regarded the golden Rhine river as their own property. So the new burchfam - after installation - once had to make a boat trip to see the property. On the way back to Frisia they arrived as far as Leyden and moved on to WestFryasland and Eastfryasland over inland waterways. How would they get by boat to Aken (Aachen) or Liege ?

[Ott]

ken or kenn in Frisian is kinship.

If the A is meaning water - the name could lean towards fellow Fryans/kin of the water (town/citadel).

There may be a clue on page 2 of the manuscript, line 13:

ÐACH ÐÆT ELLA IS JO SELVA A-KEN

Ottema - Dutch:

Doch dat alles is u zelven ook bekend

Sandbach - English:

This is well known to you

Wirth - German:

Doch dies hieße euch Bekanntes vermehren

Lien - Norwegian:

Det er dog alt (sammen) velkjent for dere

[Ott]

On page 5 of the MS, line 20, AKEN is also spelled with a dot between A and KEN (A-KEN).

KEN may be the same root-word as in KENING (king).

[Ott]

MS page 83, line 6-7

AS HJU TO FARA NA NЄDE KENÐ

Page 164, line 30-31

ÐЄRÐRVCH HÆVON WI ÐA YRA ÆND ÐA ʘÐERA KENNA LЄRÐ

Page 166, line 20-21

ÐA GRATESTE KENNAÐ EN ELE KV VRSLYNNA

Page 167, line 3-4

NʘMA ÐЄR IK ALLE NIT NOMA NI KEN

Etcetera.

[lilthor]

god i love this thread...it just never gets old

[Abramelin]

That's all I pretty much meant too. How can we know Romans called this place Aken, Aquae Grannis is not really 'Aken'.

Aa-ken might mean 'to feel or see water' - with ken based in 'to know, perceive, to feel'.

Aken doesn't appear in the Frisian dictionary so could have been a name only word.

It might be co-incidence that ak is in both aqua and Aken but Aken might not mean aqua/water but water/aa+ken

It seems obvious that Aken had to do with Aquae because, even in the old times, Aken was known for its hot sulphur springs.

But now look at this list of Belgian placenames:

http://www.eupedia.c...ace_names.shtml

It appears that several cities in Belgium, west of Aken, ended with this -aken (like Bastenaken), but they (and these endings) are explained as Celtic and/or Latin words/names.

Suffixes in -ogne

This suffix comes from the Latin -onia (e.g. Nassonia => Nassogne), meaning roughly "property of" (just -inas and -acum). Some names might also descend from the Gaulish -onna, normally rendered as -onne or -on. Until the 18th century the traditional spelling of -ogne was -oigne. It has only survived in Seloignes, Loupoigne and Jodoigne (which are nevertheless pronounced -ogne). As always names have mutated with time (Chevetogne was mentioned as Caventonia in 956), although Latin names tended to be better preserved than Germanic ones in Wallonia. Most of the suffixes in -ogne are located in the southern half of the provinces of Namur and Liege. Bastogne is translated as Bastenaken, and Jodoigne as Geldenaken in Dutch, in accordance with the Latin origin (see -aken above). Names in -oing are corruptions of -oigne (e.g. Antoing, Warcoing) and fit in the same category.

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Edited March 7, 2013 by Abramelin

[Abramelin]

I know it's Franks. The word in the OLB is Franka so maybe Franken is right.

I do believe what the OLB says. I don't think however that passage in question refers to them (Twisklanders/Franken) going to Alderga, Lydasburgt or touring Stavera. That is Adel and his wife imo.

I do think they (Twisklanders/Franks) did cross the Rhine into Aachen and proceeded to move west and north as time went on, settling into the whole area eventually.

Is Adel in 600BC?

"Franken" is the Dutch plural of 'Frank'. So in English it would be 'Franks'.

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And this is what the OLB says:

The Twisklanders who had done the wicked deed called themselves Frijen or Franken.

That 'wicked deed' was the killing of the 4 slaves/servants.

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According to the OLB chronology, it must have happened in the 6th century BCE.

[The Puzzler]

"Franken" is the Dutch plural of 'Frank'. So in English it would be 'Franks'.

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And this is what the OLB says:

The Twisklanders who had done the wicked deed called themselves Frijen or Franken.

That 'wicked deed' was the killing of the 4 slaves/servants.

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According to the OLB chronology, it must have happened in the 6th century BCE.

I know the 4 Franks killed the slaves/servants. I never said they didn't. It's a matter of WHERE they killed them.

Adel's timeframe is not 6th century BCE.

Friso is in the time of Alexander the Great and Adel is Friso's son.

Edited March 8, 2013 by The Puzzler

[The Puzzler]

There may be a clue on page 2 of the manuscript, line 13:

ÐACH ÐÆT ELLA IS JO SELVA A-KEN

Ottema - Dutch:

Doch dat alles is u zelven ook bekend

Sandbach - English:

This is well known to you

Wirth - German:

Doch dies hieße euch Bekanntes vermehren

Lien - Norwegian:

Det er dog alt (sammen) velkjent for dere

Yes, ken is also 'to know, perceive'. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ken

Northern and Scottish dialects from Old English cennan ("make known, declare, acknowledge") originally “make to know”, causative of cunnan ("to become acquainted with, to know"), from Old Norse kenna ("know, perceive"), from Proto-Germanic *kannijanan, causative of *kunnanan (“be able”). Cognate to German kennen ("to know, be acquainted with someone/something").

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ken

ache is also an aken word.

Middle English aken (v), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (v)

http://www.memidex.com/ached

perceive (pain) = ache

It might not even have the root for water in it - the a might just be 'a' - 'a well-known' (place) or even 'a kin' (other Fryan people)

There is many variations on the word apart from being named from Latin aqua.

Aachen could be aqua - aa+chen

but Aken might not be - a+ken

Considering water is wêter in the OLB and a is je - it's possible its a-ken with no reference to water in Frisian. We don't use any sort of a or aa or ae for water in English (except sea which is kinda like it) and the OLB uses water/weter too, so aa etc for water might not even be an original Frisian word, it might be a different Germanic, like the suffix -chen - Aa-chen then fits as water.

The long a is water - aa

Depends if the A is actually a long a or just a.

Edited March 8, 2013 by The Puzzler

[The Puzzler]

It seems obvious that Aken had to do with Aquae because, even in the old times, Aken was known for its hot sulphur springs.

But now look at this list of Belgian placenames:

http://www.eupedia.c...ace_names.shtml

It appears that several cities in Belgium, west of Aken, ended with this -aken (like Bastenaken), but they (and these endings) are explained as Celtic and/or Latin words/names.

Suffixes in -ogne

This suffix comes from the Latin -onia (e.g. Nassonia => Nassogne), meaning roughly "property of" (just -inas and -acum). Some names might also descend from the Gaulish -onna, normally rendered as -onne or -on. Until the 18th century the traditional spelling of -ogne was -oigne. It has only survived in Seloignes, Loupoigne and Jodoigne (which are nevertheless pronounced -ogne). As always names have mutated with time (Chevetogne was mentioned as Caventonia in 956), although Latin names tended to be better preserved than Germanic ones in Wallonia. Most of the suffixes in -ogne are located in the southern half of the provinces of Namur and Liege. Bastogne is translated as Bastenaken, and Jodoigne as Geldenaken in Dutch, in accordance with the Latin origin (see -aken above). Names in -oing are corruptions of -oigne (e.g. Antoing, Warcoing) and fit in the same category.

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I showed a similar thing with -chen in German

Aachen

chen meaning a diminutive/neutral

It depends then if the word is made up of Frisian words a+ken or if chen/ken is a Germanic suffix on it.

Edited March 8, 2013 by The Puzzler

[The Puzzler]

It seems obvious that Aken had to do with Aquae because, even in the old times, Aken was known for its hot sulphur springs.

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My brain works in the way that I take the Latin word, and put if after the Fryan word in time, consider the Romans arrived at an already named place and give it an equal Latin name rather than invent the name themselves.

Just a sideline, my Scottish friend's mother says kenna all the time in broad Scots, like: kenna Jack go? I thought she was saying can...but never really knew what she said although I knew she wanted to know where he was - but now I get what's she's saying - like 'do I know where Jack went?'

Edited March 8, 2013 by The Puzzler

[Abramelin]

I showed a similar thing with -chen in German

Aachen

chen meaning a diminutive/neutral

It depends then if the word is made up of Frisian words a+ken or if chen/ken is a Germanic suffix on it.

But it was a settlement of Celts, not Germans, so it seems kind of logical to look for an explanation in a Celtic language.

I must add that the link to the site about Belgian placenames seems to suggest most were translations from Latin into Celtic.

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Edited March 8, 2013 by Abramelin

[Abramelin]

I know the 4 Franks killed the slaves/servants. I never said they didn't. It's a matter of WHERE they killed them.

Adel's timeframe is not 6th century BCE.

Friso is in the time of Alexander the Great and Adel is Friso's son.

Yes, you are right. I was busy with some other story in the OLB.

But then still it happened around the 3d century BCE,

Some 6-700 years before the Franks showed up.

If the Romans would have encountered them in the 1st century CE, they would have mentioned them.

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Edited March 8, 2013 by Abramelin

[The Puzzler]

Yes, you are right. I was busy with some other story in the OLB.

But then still it happened around the 3d century BCE,

Some 6-700 years before the Franks showed up.

If the Romans would have encountered them in the 1st century CE, they would have mentioned them.

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Yes, 3rd century BC and yes, still way too early for the history books I know.

In the 3rd century a number of large West Germanic tribes emerged: Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Saxons, Frisii, Sicambri, and Thuringii. Around 260, the Germanic peoples broke into Roman-controlled lands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany

The Franks (Latin: Franci or gens Francorum) were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as occupying land on the Lower and Middle Rhine. In the 3rd century some Franks raided Roman territory, while others joined the Roman troops in Gaul. The Salian Franks formed a kingdom on Roman-held soil that was acknowledged by the Romans after 357.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks

However, as a confederation of Germanic tribes, they may have existed much earlier than their first mention when they raided Roman territory.

The OLB has them described as just that - raiders.

They are all horsemen and robbers. This is what makes the Twisklanders so bloodthirsty. The Twisklanders who had done the wicked deed called themselves Frijen or Franken.

I'm not sure when Konered writes, at the time of the event they might have been Twisklanders but when Konered writes he tells us they called themselves Franken (maybe at a later time).

[The Puzzler]

But it was a settlement of Celts, not Germans, so it seems kind of logical to look for an explanation in a Celtic language.

I must add that the link to the site about Belgian placenames seems to suggest most were translations from Latin into Celtic.

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Well, Celts only arrived in the Iron Age... but Scottish is Celtic, and they say kenna for know - so it's the same as the way it's been used in the OLB. gestur showed us this:ÐACH ÐÆT ELLA IS JO SELVA A-KEN

Ottema - Dutch:

Doch dat alles is u zelven ook bekend

Sandbach - English:

This is well known to you

Flint quarries on the Lousberg, Schneeberg, and Königshügel, first used during Neolithic times (3,000-2,500 b.c.), attest to the long occupation of the site of Aachen, as do recent finds under the modern city's Elisengarten pointing to a former settlement from the same period. Bronze Age (ca. 1600 b.c.) settlement is evidenced by the remains of barrows (burial mounds) found, for example, on the Klausberg. During the Iron Age, the area was settled by Celtic peoples^[6] who were perhaps drawn by the marshy Aachen basin's hot sulphur springs where they worshiped Grannus, god of light and healing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen

It might just mean 'a famous place, well-known'.

Edited March 8, 2013 by The Puzzler

[Apol]

The Old Frisians regarded the golden Rhine river as their own property. So the new burchfam - after installation - once had to make a boat trip to see the property. On the way back to Frisia they arrived as far as Leyden and moved on to WestFryasland and Eastfryasland over inland waterways. How would they get by boat to Aken (Aachen) or Liege ?

I don't know how they went there, but I can make a guess. Apollânja went by land, though:

min fârt is alingen ðêre Rêne wêst. ðjus kâd vpward. alingen ðêre ôre síde ofward.

I don't know whether Adel and Jfkja went by land or by boat - and if they went to Aken at all. If they went to Aken and used boats, they may have sent some messengers to the burgh way beforehand. The burgh would then have sent their own horse equipage to the bank of the Rhine for bringing them safely to the burgh. This would also mean extra wêrar for protection.

They may even have sent their wêrar as an extra protection for Apollânja and her attendants.

[Knul]

I don't know how they went there, but I can make a guess. Apollânja went by land, though:

min fârt is alingen ðêre Rêne wêst. ðjus kâd vpward. alingen ðêre ôre síde ofward.

I don't know whether Adel and Jfkja went by land or by boat - and if they went to Aken at all. If they went to Aken and used boats, they may have sent some messengers to the burgh way beforehand. The burgh would then have sent their own horse equipage to the bank of the Rhine for bringing them safely to the burgh. This would also mean extra wêrar for protection.

They may even have sent their wêrar as an extra protection for Apollânja and her attendants.

fârt = Dutch vaart, boat trip OLB fara, butafarar.

A second question has not been put yet: the order of the lands mentioned.

1 - 4 seems to be clockwise : Eastflyland - Haga Fenna & Walda - Southflyland - Westflyland. Clockwise means: with the sun om like the yule wheel.

Edited March 8, 2013 by Knul