Brit-Am Research Sources
# The secret of the LORD is for those who fear Him, And He will make them know His Covenant" (Psalm 25:14).
10 March, 2022; 7 Adar-B , 5782.
Contents:
1. National Identification with the Phoenicians.
2. Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Britain and Ireland
3. Red Hair in Thrace.
4. Norway Border River, 'The River of the Border of Jacob,' has a Tributary named Jordan!
5. British Antiquities
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1. National Identification with the Phoenicians
All at sea: The maritime lives of the ancient Phoenicians
By Josephine Quinn
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/all-at-sea-the-maritime-lives-of-the-ancient-phoenicians
The Phoenicians had a second wind as well, out in the Atlantic. Just as nation states were beginning to emerge in the sixteenth century CE, they become unexpected national heroes, first in Britain and then in Ireland. These were islands that as far as we know ancient Phoenician sailors never reached, but they were lands looking for origin myths. Some British scholars looked to King Arthur, other to the Trojans. And some hit on the notion that it was actually the Phoenicians who originally colonised Britain, or that Phoenician settlers in the South combined with Germanic settlers in the North: this explains, one author tells us, why the Scots are so much larger and fiercer than the English. The connection with the Phoenicians was particularly useful for the British in the seventeenth century because it differentiated them from their great enemies the French, who were always more associated with the Romans as a land-based, territorial power, while the Phoenicians, like the British, were famous sailors with a maritime empire. In Ireland by contrast an imagined relationship constructed with the Phoenicians in the eighteenth century was all about a very real relationship with Britain: the idea that the Irish were descended from Phoenicians cast the British occupation of Ireland in terms of the great struggle during the Punic Wars between sophisticated, noble Carthage and the savage imperial power of Rome.
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2. Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Britain and Ireland
High North: Carthaginian Exploration of Ireland
DECEMBER 13, 2011
https://gatesofnineveh.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/high-north-carthaginian-exploration-of-ireland/
The presence of tin in the islands would have been of great interest to the Carthaginians. In fact, tin was likely the primary motivation for norther exploration by Carthage. Tin is a very rare metal, making up only 0.001% of earth�s crust. It is also an essential element in the manufacture of bronze.[9] And since bronze was used to make just about everything in the ancient world, from art to cooking utensils, tin was very valuable. Yet, only a few places had tin mines, and they were in Germany, Brittany, northern Spain, and Cornwall. Tin made its way to the Mediterranean through overland trading networks, but the people who lived there had no idea where it originated. Herodotus admitted as much when he wrote:
# I cannot speak with certainty, however, about the marginal regions which lie toward the west in Europe�Nor am I certain of the existence of the Cassiterides Islands, from which we get our tin. Moreover, despite all my efforts to research the matter, I have been unable to find anyone who could say that he actually saw for himself that a sea exists on the far side of Europe. In any case, the far edges of the world are the source of the tin and amber that come to us.[10] #
Two days sailing from the Oestrymnides, Himilco reached insula sacra, �The Holy Island�:
But from here, there is a two-day journey by a ship to the Holy Island � thus the ancients called it. This island, large in extent of land, lies between the waves. The race of Hierni inhabits it far and wide. Again, the island of the Albiones lies near, and the Tartessians were accustomed to carry on business to the ends of the Oestrymnides.[11]
The identity of insula sacra is generally believed to be Ireland.....
The Phoenicians maintained a monopoly on the ocean route which was enforced by their naval control of the eastern Mediterranean. Only Phoenician ships could enter and trade in the area. When the Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia visited Britain, he either evaded the blockade or traveled overland through Gaul. The ocean tin trade was not opened to Roman traffic until Julius Caesar conquered Gaul and Publius Crassus crossed over to Cornwall to observe the tin mining. He made the information widely available to those wishing to make the sea voyage.[20]
Ireland, on the other hand, remained isolated. Julius Caesar learned of it and described it in some detail, but does not seem to have visited the island. After the Romans conquered Britain in 43 AD, trade between Ireland and Roman Britain was common but the Romans never moved to invade Ireland. The Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola invaded Scotland in 83 AD and pushed for authority and troops to invade Ireland, but was never allowed to.
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3. Red Hair in Thrace.
The Ancient History of Redheads and Ginger Hair
https://gingerparrot.co.uk/the-ancient-history-of-redheads-and-ginger-hair/
Extracts:
Thracian Gods had blue eyes and red hair.
Furthermore, many Thracian graves had the inscription 'Rufus', meaning redhead, with Thracian often depicted as having red hair, too.
Next, in around 400BC, Herodotus described how the Budni, a large and powerful nation, all had bright red hair and deep blue eyes.
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4. Norway Border River, 'The River of the Border of Jacob,' has a Tributary named Jordan!
Tribesman -2
https://hebraictribes.com/pdfMagazine/issue2.pdf
A Mr. Bjorne-Olaf Hagensen who lives in the far north of Norway visited us and imparted information and opinions of some value. .... Mr. Hagenson remarked that the present border between Norway and Russia is a river called by a name meaning 'The River of Jacob' (Orjan Svensson in a letter in this issue also makes the same point) -a confluent of this river is known as the JORDAN! Mr. Hagenson noted that church ministers in Scandinavia often have certain specific surnames and seem to belong to one family-group. He suggested that they were descendants of the Cohans or Levites and he inclines to the notion that the Tribe of Benjamin is prominent in Norway..
Brit-Am Note: We looked at GOOGLE Maps and could not find a tributary name "Jordan" of the river in question but that does not say much since there seem to be tributaries without their names being listed. It happens however that sometimes people make mistakes and give us wrong information. On the other hand valuable information seems historically to have sometimes been hidden or disregarded, deliberatedly or not.
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5. British Antiquities
Celtic Researches, by Edward Davies (article in John Matthews, "The Druid Source Book," London, 1998).
Diodorus: Apollo, Latona, Hyperboreans, Abaris, friendly with the Athenians, 19 year cycle,
Part of Britain ruled by Boreadae descendants of Boreas.
Boreas.
The first name of Britain was Vel Ynys "The Island of Bel." afterwards called ynys prudain the regulator of seasons. "Island of Beli".
Cymry from region of Greece, claim Abaris as their countryman.
Inhabitants of Babylon often visited Temple of Apollos in the land of the Hyperboreans.
Peoples who Invaded Britain:
Caledonians
Gwydellion
Galedin
Coanied
Fichti (Picts from Denmark)
Saxons
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