Brit-Am Research Sources (15 December, 2019, 17 Kislev 5780)
Contents:
1. The Anglo-Saxon Invasion Caused by Flooding in Europe?
2. Medieval Germans Referred to "Romans"
3. Cecil Rhodes, Imperial Vision
4. Did an Irishman influence Napoleon to become a Zionist?
5. Germanic populations in Talmudic and other rabbinic texts
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1. The Anglo-Saxon Invasion Caused by Flooding in Europe?
Is there anything known about the flooding that supposedly caused the Anglo/Saxons and other Germanic tribes to leave their homeland and invade England?
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-anything-known-about-the-flooding-that-supposedly-caused-the-Anglo-Saxons-and-other-Germanic-tribes-to-leave-their-homeland-and-invade-England?__nsrc__=4
Lars Eidevall, Artistic Director in international Performing arts at Palladium Malmo (1996-present)
It was a process over 4 centuries by the North Sea and Baltic coast. Beginning with salt water flooding of the coasts of Frisia and Pomerania, which were deserted in the 200s. So Goths and Vandals moved Southeast to Vistula and Danube, and Frisii moved to Frankish lands, or joined Saxons raiding Britain. The flooding of the Frisian coast meant that you could not live and farm there, but you could send ships from there.
Saxons became Roman mercenaries and when Rome fell, Anglian Earls joined them in fighting the Picts and taking land for themselves around 450. 100 years later, there were 3 winters without a summer and farming collapsed in the North around 550, and when the Justinian plague came there, the marshlands of Angeln were deserted and the Angles all moved to Britain instead together with many Saxons and Jutes.
Frisia was resettled by these tribes in this mass exodus process, which is why Old English and Old Friesian are so close. Pomerania was resettled by Slavic tribes from around this time, and Angeln became the land where the Danes built Danevirke as a protection wall against Franks and Saxons from 750, and Hedeby as a Baltic/North Sea Viking ship trade center in the middle of the marshes, later replaced by Slesvig and Kiel in the medieval warm period 1000-1300 CE.
It took Scandinavia and the Danes until 800 to rebuild Norse farming, and after that the Viking Age of expansion and their 300 years of invasions of Britain/Northumbria/England began. So in all 9 centuries of Germanic raids and invasions caused by flooding, famine, cold climate and search for new farmable land.
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2. Medieval Germans Referred to as "Romans"
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Frederick II (1194 - 1250; King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225.
# Emperor Frederick vowed to liberate Jerusalem at his coronation as "King of the Romans" (Germans) in December 1212, and renewed that vow many times afterwards. #
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3. Cecil Rhodes, Imperial Vision
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rhodes,_Cecil_John_(DNB12)
Extract:
In 1877 he had his first serious heart attack and made his first will, dated 19 Sept. 1877. The testator disposed of the fortune which he had not yet made to 'the establishment, promotion, and development of a Secret Society the aim and object whereof shall be the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour, and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the valley of the Euphrates, the islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the sea-board of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of colonial epresentation in the imperial Parliament, which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the empire, and finally the foundation of so great a power as hereafter to render wars impossible and promote the best interests of humanity.' The form and substance of these aspirations are youthful, but they dominated Rhodes's life.
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4. Did an Irishman influence Napoleon to become a Zionist?
https://www.irelandisrael.ie/did-an-irishman-influence-napoleon-to-become-a-zionist
Extracts:
Almost exactly 220 years ago, on April 20, 1799, which was the first day of Passover that year too, Napoleon Bonaparte issued a proclamation to Diaspora Jews to return to the Land of Israel and re-establish their state there.
In 1799 Napoleon marched on Palestine from Egypt, conquering the coastal towns, the Sharon and Galilee. His reconnaissance parties reached Safed, but fortified Acre stood firm and refused to surrender to the pressure of his Army.
Napoleon's advance involved a significant historical fact: his attempt to win the good will of the Jews of Syria and Palestine, and indeed of the world, by his official pledge to restore Palestine to the Jews and establish a Jewish State.
Napoleon intends "to restore to the Jews their Jerusalem", read a French newspaper report at the time, while another report claimed that "Bonaparte published a proclamation that calls on all the Jews of Africa and Asia to rally around his flag in order to re-establish ancient Jerusalem".
While the proclamation itself was never found, a copy translated to German was uncovered in 1939, addressed to "the Jewish nation from France's top general, Bonaparte, and Rabbi Aharon in Jerusalem", saying, "Israelites, France offers you at this very time... Israel's patrimony; take over what has been conquered and with that nation's warranty and support, maintain it against all comers."
Napoleon's letter (Franz Kobler, 'Napoleon and the Jews', p. 55-57).
Some hold the statement to be an attempt to lure Haim Farhi, a Syrian Jew and chief advisor to Ahmad al-Jazzar of Acre, to betray his master by switching his support to the French. Whether this is true or not, Farhi defended the city with the rest of the Turks. Farhi played a key role in the city's defense. As al-Jazzar's adviser and right-hand man, he directly supervised how the battle against the siege was run. At the culmination of the assault, the besieging forces managed to make a breach in the walls. After suffering many casualties to open an entry-point, Napoleon's soldiers found, on trying to penetrate the city, that Farhi had in the meantime built a second wall, several feet deeper within the city where al-Jazzar's garden was. Discovery of this new construction convinced Napoleon and his men that the probability of their taking the city was minimal. The siege was raised and Napoleon withdrew to Egypt.
Napoleon may have been influenced by a letter, written to Napoleon's patron in February 1799 by an Irishman named Thomas Corbet, a devout Protestant who rebelled against England and joined the French army together with his brother William. During his service, he wrote the letter to the leader of the French Directory, who at the time was Paul Barras, Napoleon's patron. In the letter he details, in slightly poor French, a proposal saying 'I recommend you, Napoleon, to call on the Jewish people to join your conquest in the East, to your mission to conquer the land of Israel.'
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5. Germanic populations in Talmudic and other rabbinic texts
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/84189/germanic-populations-in-talmudic-and-other-rabbinic-texts
(Brought to our attention by N. Schrieber).
Interesting quotations. In general Germany and the Goths are identified with Ashkenaz and sometimes with Magog. Germany (like Rome) is also identified with Edom but in the case of Germany the identification is less unequivocal.
Extract:
":R. Hama b. Hanina says: There are 300 crowned heads in Germamia of Edom and 365 chiefs in Rome; and every day one set go forth to meet the other and one of them is killed and they have all the trouble of appointing a king again." Rashi interprets "Germamia of Edom" as the name of a kingdom that descends from Edom