Brit-Am Research Sources (9 December, 2012. 25 Kislev, 5773)
Contents:
1. Kingdom of the Ark : Egyptians in Britain and Spain
2. Sources: Albina and Aidne of Britain from Syria, Atecotti, Feni, Tuatha-de = Jews, Saxons and Huns
3. Some English-Hebrew Words Such as Such, Some, Same, Sum.
1. Kingdom of the Ark : Egyptians in Britain and Spain
Extracts:
A medieval manuscript called the Scotichronicon, or Chronicles of the Scots, written in AD 1435 by a monk named Walter Bower, gives the following legend about the origin of the Scots:
"In ancient times Scota, the daughter of pharaoh, left Egypt with her husband Gaythelos by name and a large following. For they had heard of the disasters which were going to come upon Egypt, and so through the instructions of the gods they fled from certain plagues that were to come. They took to the sea, entrusting themselves to the guidance of the gods. After sailing in this way for many days over the sea with troubled minds, they were finally glad to put their boats in at a certain shore because of bad weather."
The manuscript goes on to say that the Egyptians settled in what is now Scotland, were later chased out by the local population and moved to Ireland, where they merged with an Irish tribe and became known as the Scotti. They became High Kings of Ireland, and eventually re-invaded and re-conquered Scotland, which gains its name from their founding princess, Scota.
Orkneyinga Saga, written in Iceland in about 1200 AD, attributes the name of Norway to a legendary founder called Nor...
Archaeology
A necklace of amber, jet and faience beads was found with a secondary Bronze Age burial of a young man in a Neolithic burial mound at Tara in Ireland, excavated in 1955 and carbon-dated to 1350 BC. The faience beads were similar to those in the tomb of Tutankhamun, which dates to about the same period. (Note: faience is a ceramic, often characterized by a glossy blue glaze resembling precious stones such as turquoise or lapis lazuli).
A second, similar, necklace was found in a Bronze Age burial mound in Devon in 1889. As the faience beads are similar to those found in Egypt at the same period, the author suggests that the burials may have been high-ranking Egyptians.
A shipwrecked boat excavated in Ferriby on the Humber Estuary in northern England in 1938-1946 was of a design similar to those used in the ancient Mediterranean and was carbon-dated to 1400-1350 BC. The author suggests that the boat may have been part of Scota's fleet from Egypt.
Amber from the Baltic Sea is found in Bronze Age contexts in Britain and in Mycenae (Greece), indicating the existence of long-distance trading routes across Europe. The amber's source can be identified by infrared analysis.
Egyptian artifacts such as faience are found in Mycenaean excavations, and Mycenean-style pottery is found in Akhenaten's city of Amarna in Egypt, indicating trading and/or diplomatic links between Mycenae and Akhenaten's Egypt. The author suggests that Akehenaten's daughter Meritaten could have known about north-western Europe via contacts with Mycenae.
There are mysterious prehistoric towers called motillas in Spain, which consist of a conical tower in an enclosure. One was excavated in 1947 and metalwork dated to the middle Bronze Age was found.
The Bower chronicle says that the followers of Scota settled for a while in Spain and built,
"a very strong tower, encircled by deep ditches, in the middle of the settlement", and the author suggests that the motillas are these towers.
Numerous Egyptian artifacts have been found in Spain, dating from the Third Dynasty (well before the time of Akhenaten and the supposed flight of Meritaten), indicating long-established links between Egypt and Spain. (However, as far as I can see the author does not claim that Egyptian artifacts have been found at motilla sites).
Two barrow burials near Stonehenge in Britain were excavated in 1808 and 1818 and contained amber jewellery and gold artifacts that resemble types found in the eastern Mediterranean.
Tin ingots have been found in Cornwall that resemble those found in the eastern Mediterranean. The author suggests that Cornish tin may have been traded, probably by the Phoenicians, into the Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, but notes that it cannot be proved because the Cornish ingots cannot be dated.
Two Bronze Age shipwrecks found in the English Channel, one near Dover and one in Devon, date to about 1200 BC and appear to have been carrying cargoes of bronze artifacts of types found in Continental Europe, indicating that seaborne trade between Britain and Europe occurred in the Bronze Age.
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2. Sources: Albina and Aidne of Britain from Syria, Atecotti, Feni, Tuatha-de = Jews, Saxons and Huns
The British Chronicles, VOLUME 1 ONLY, Volume 1 by David Hughes, 2007, USA
Britain was settled by a woman named Albina either (a) a daughter of Atlas, (b) from King Ogyges of Greece (c) from Deucalian the Greek Noah (d) one of the Danaids from Danus of Argos (Greece) (e) from King Diodicias of Syria OR (f) Albina (daughter of Diodicias of Syria) killed her husband the king of Anatolia and led a group of Amazons to Britain (quoted by the Roman writer, Apollodorus)
# There is an Irish myth that says that Aidne, son of Bioth, was sent to explore the British Isles by King Ninus of Syria, identified as Nimrod the Sumerian Emperor # (p.3)
Identification of Albina and co. with daughters of Danus (William Slatyer, "Palae-Albion" (1622).
Atecotti [Agathyrsi??] under Creon (p.22).
Atecotti over north Ireland, northern and Eastern Scotland, western Norway (Thule)
Phoenicians and Pleasgic Greeks= Belgae (p.24), Fir Bolg of Leinster (east Ireland), Hampshire (central-south England)
Samothes (first king of the Celts) p.30
# The Feni or Fenians (p.35) arrive about 600 BC. The Fenii or Fenians were Gauls/Gaels who came from France and settled in Ireland, first in south Munser but later migrated to northern Munster [southwest Ireland] and Meath [ca. northwest of Dublin]. The term Feni in early Irish usage had a positive implication that implied the "true Irish race" [Gaelic]. Then in medieval Irish usage the term Feni was applied to repatriated Irish exiles from Roman Britain who, organized as a Roman legion, did not disband after conquering the country but roamed about Ireland as a band of marauders for around 200 years and this acquired a negative implication. And in modern Irish usage the term "Feni" popularly denotes Irish hooligans. #
Tuatha de Danaan confused with Tuatha-de men of God meaning Jews in the Irish Bible (p.35)
The first king of the Irish Tuatha -de was Ion son of Kari may be identified with Johonan son of Kareah, a cousin of King Zedekiah, who led fleeing Jews to Egypt (Jeremiah 43:5-7).
Psalms 89:25 Also I will set his hand over the sea,
And his right hand over the rivers.
Re-establishment of David's seed in British Isles (p.36)
Avienus ca. 375 CE wrote that the Carthaginian Himilco establish a colony in Britain in ca. 500 BCE.
Plato (400 BC) wrote that the island and coasts of the Atlantic were settled by the Colossi, the giants, at the timer of the great migrations (p.39).
a record taken from old Saxon chronicles of the Anglo-Saxon Bretwaldas (High Kings), from Aella of Sussex a Saxon [or Hunnish chieftain] descended from ancient Teutonic [or Hunnish] tribal chefs led the migration of the Saxons and other "barbarian tribes" to England from Germany which took place at the time of the general collapse of the Roman Empire (476/477 ff), and conquered England within three years and became the first Bretwalda, 479 [p.xi].
Note: re Aidne, son of Bioth, was sent to explore the British Isles by King Ninus of Syria.
We have shown elsewhere how King Ninus was often used in Classical sources to represent Assyrian conquests in general during the Neo-Assyrian period which was that when the Israelites were exiled. Syria here is Assyria.
The name Aidne is similar to that of AID (Aed) whom Arab sources identified with the Ten Tribes of Israel and told how he had been exiled for his sins to the British Isles.
See:
Did the Jews Know Where the Ten Tribes Are?
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3. Some English-Hebrew Words Such as Such, Some, Same, Sum.
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(a) Such from Sac.
Word:
Hebrew sac (sach) meaning amount, total sum.
English such meaning "of a kind - specified or implied".
From Middle English such, swuch, swulch, from Old English swylc, swilc, swelc ('such'), ... Cognate with Low German solk, sulk, suk ('such'), Dutch zulk ('such'), German solch ('such'), Danish slig ('like that, such').
meaning so formed, similar.
Comment: The Hebrew could be pronounced almost the same (sac, suc cf. such) and by extension have almost the same meaning.
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(b) Same, Some, Sum from the Hebrew samam, sam, sham, shum
Hebrew sum (pronounced as Sham but sh and "s" interchanged) meaning estimate, reckon, appraise.
Hebrew sham meaning "there". The Hebrew words shum and sham are spelled the same and come from the same word root.
English some (adj.)
O.E. sum "some," from P.Gmc. *sumas (cf. O.S., O.Fris., O.H.G. sum, O.N. sumr, Goth. sums), f
same
perhaps abstracted from O.E. swa same "the same as," but more likely from O.N. same, samr "same," both from P.Gmc. *samon
sum (n.) late 13c., "quantity or amount of money," from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. summe (13c.), from L. summa "total number, whole, essence, gist,"
Source: Online Etymological Dictionary
The English words sum, some, same have the same consonants and similar sounds but different meanings and according to the dictionary separate origins.
Nevertheless we searched for a common denominator.
The Hebrew words considered are: samam (separate into small pieces -Hirsch), shamam (destroy, dismantle), sam (place, put), sham (estimate, reckon), sham (there), shum (any, none), shem (name).
The words samam, shamam, sham (reckon) have the common denominator of breaking something down into its components or gathering them together. In Hebrew a word root may be used for a certain action and its diametrical opposite.
The words sam, sham (there), shum all indicate placement or existence.
shem (name) may be understood as definition of state of existence.
Gathering something together or breaking it down may be considered as related to defining its state or position.
These word roots (as the etymology of words goes) could easily have given rise to the English words sum, some, same.
[For me this is all obvious, but for some of our readers maybe not quite so. A deeper study could perhaps clarify matters.]