Brit-Am Research Sources (5 September, 2013, Tishrei 5, 5774)
Contents:
1. A Settlement of Jews in Ancient Wales?
2. Different Ancestries Traced to Sceald (Forefather of the Anglo-Saxons)
Langobards, Imbers (Ambrones), Zealand (Denmark), Geats (Denmark)
3. Mark Williams: Satre - The Etruscan Deity Satre (cf. Saturn)
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1. A Settlement of Jews in Ancient Wales?
When Wales was Jewish
http://dnaconsultants.com/_blog/DNA_Consultants_Blog/post/When_Wales_Was_Jewish/
Significantly, Welsh tradition associates the Iron Age hilltop town on Conwy Mountain known as Castell Caer Seion with a settlement of ancient Jews. This site overlooks Conwy Bay on the north coast of Wales and lies on the ancient road between Prestatyn in Denbighshire and Bangor in Gwynedd opposite Angelsey. In the Black Book of Caermarthen, the Welsh national bard Taliesin casually remarks in the persona of the battling hero,
When I return from Caer Seon,
From contending with Jews,
I will come to the city of Lleu and Gwidion.
William F. Skene, The Four Ancient Books of Wales (Edinburgh, 1868, republished 2007 by Forgotten Books) 206.
Lleu and Gwidion are the names of two other legendary figures; they are believed to be historical and to have lived in the early centuries of the Common Era or anterior to it.
It is hard to avoid the thought that the hilly area to the west of the town of Conwy, in North Wales was once inhabited by Jews.
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2. Different Ancestries Traced to Sceald (Forefather of the Anglo-Saxons)
Langobards, Imbers (Ambrones), Zealand (Denmark), Geats (Denmark)
From: cmacq098
Subject: [Germanic-L] References to Sceaf
From what I understand there were at least four discrete Sceaf traditions mentioned in various literary sources. One of these addressed the mythical Sceaf of the Langobards and another Sceaf-there ruler of the Imbers. The Imbers may have represent a remnant polulation of the classical Ambrones that remained in southern Jutland. Next was the Sceaf who was apparently the forefather of Scyld; the husband of the goddess Gefjon, legendary master of Lejre, and high chieftain of Zealand. Finally the fourth tradition posits a Sceaf as the ancestor of the Heroic ruler of the Geats also named Scyld.
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3. Mark Williams: Satre - The Etruscan Deity Satre (cf. Saturn)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satre_(Etruscan_god)
Satre or Satres[1] was an Etruscan god who appears on the Liver of
Piacenza, a bronze model used for haruspicy. He occupies the dark and
negative northwest region, and seems to be a "frightening and dangerous
god who hurls his lightning from his abode deep in the earth.
Interesting.