Brit-Am Research Sources (3 March, 2015, 12 Adar, 5775)
Contents:
1. Ancient Links between Scandinavia and Cyprus?
2. Old Armenian source (1200s CE) identifies Edomites with Franks and Scythians in Caucasus
3. The German historian Schmoeckel sees much evidence that the Merovingians as well as the Carolingians are descendants of the Sarmatians.
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1. Ancient Links between Scandinavia and Cyprus?
Oxhide ingots in Scandinavian rock art
Antiquity / Volume 89 / Issue 343 / February 2015, pp 191-209
http://dienekes.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/oxhide-ingots-in-scandinavian-rock-art.html
Representations of oxhide ingots in Scandinavian rock art: the sketchbook of a Bronze Age traveller?
Johan Ling and Zofia Stos-Gale
Bronze Age trade networks across Europe and the Mediterranean are well documented; Baltic amber and bronze metalwork were particularly valued commodities. Here it is argued that demand for copper and tin led to changes in Scandinavian trade routes around 1600 BC, which can be linked to the appearance of figurative rock art images in southern Scandinavia. Images identified as oxhide ingots have been discovered in Sweden and suggest that people from Scandinavia were familiar with this characteristically Mediterranean trading commodity. Using trace element and lead isotope analysis, the authors argue that some bronze tools excavated in Sweden could have been made of Cypriot copper; these two discoveries suggest that Scandinavians were travelling to the Mediterranean, rather than acting through a middle man.
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2. Old Armenian source (1200s CE) identifies Edomites with Franks and Scythians in Caucasus
Gregory of Akner or Grigor Aknertsi, Grigor Akants, Akanc was a 13th-century Armenian historian and author, known for his valuable work named History of the Nation of the Archers.[1] Aknertsi moved from Eastern Armenia to Cilicia in the years of 1265 or 1266, where he joined the Akner monastery.[2]
Quote From:
Grigor Akner, History of the Nation of Archers, 1200s CE, Armenia,
Chapter 1.
http://rbedrosian.com/ga1.htm
[There were also descendants] from the hand maidens of Abraham, one of whom was named Hagar and the other Kendura (Ketura). From Ketura, Imran was born whence the Pahlaws, [a lineage which includes] brave Arshak and saint Gregory, illuminator of the Armenians. From Hagar [descended] Ishmael, which translates "the hearing of God," whence the Ishmaelites. At the birth of Ishmael, God commanded Abraham to give to him and his people the richness of the land, and to make a great people from him with his hand upon his enemies, and more successful than all other peoples with the sword and bow.
The Esavites, who are the Scythians, descended from Esau, son of Isaac. They are black, wild, and strange looking. From them descend the Boramichk, and Lekzik, who dwell in holes and traps and perpetrate many crimes. And it is said that the Edomites who are the Franks also are descended from him. These three peoples, descendants of Hagar, Ketura, and Esau, mingled together and gave birth to another people, strange looking and wicked, called Tatar [Mongols], which means sharp and light.[8]
St. Nerse's says that [the Mongols] are the remnants of Hagar mingled with the people of Gog, who are descendants of the T'orgom who hold the Scythian part of the world. This begins at the At'l [Volga] river, by Mt. Emawon and extends as far as the Caspian Sea where [g286] thirty-three peoples dwell. They are called by the barbaric names Xuzh and Duzh. They are separate peoples. The chief of all of them is called Bushx.
Of these peoples, one is called T'ughark', which we believe are the ones called T'at'ars.
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3. The German historian Schmoeckel sees much evidence that the Merovingians as well as the Carolingians are descendants of the Sarmatians.
http://www.eupedia.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-28864.html
Reinhard Schmoeckel, Die Sarmaten -
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