Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 1201-1235 (posted on 23 February, 2014, 23 Adar-1, 5774)
Contents:
1. Ossetia ["Alania"] in the Caucasus Claims a Connection to Scotland!
2. More Linguistic Evidence that the Scandinavians Came from Scythia?
3. Samba meaning Shabat also found in Gothic!
4. Davidic Dynasty Website: Fantasies of Interest or Fanciful Truths?
5. History: Were the Picts-Cruithin of Scotland Newcomers After All? A LaTene Cultural Connection with Neil?
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1. Ossetia ["Alania"] in the Caucasus Claims a Connection to Scotland!
http://www.britam.org/now/1249Now.html#Ossetia
5. Ossetia ["Alania"] Claims a Connection to Scotland!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/
from_our_own_correspondent/7701614.stm
forwarded by Jim Wright
BBC News
Ossetia's connection to Scotland
Extracts:
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Hundreds of years ago, Ossetians roamed all over Western Europe, from the Caucasus to Scotland. As Tim Whewell reveals, the folk memories of these wanderings have lingered down the centuries, so that it can be hard to tell where myth ends and history begins.
But the Ossetians are not just like the medieval Scots. As far as they are concerned, they are the Scots. And the Scots are them.
Centuries ago, possibly during the great migrations of the Dark Ages, some of their ancestors went down from the Caucasus and set sail through the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and arrived eventually in a landscape they recognised: Caledonia.
In fact, though, they did not just occupy Scotland. They occupied the whole of Western Europe on their fast horses, spreading the chivalrous respect for women that is originally an Ossetian concept.
Some children are taught about the arrival of the first Saxons, or Frisians, Hengist and Horsa. Very few know the story of our legendary Trojan ancestor Corinius and his battle on the cliffs of Cornwall with the giant Gogmagog.
Ossetian children know all about their forefathers' wanderings around Europe and how eventually their territory diminished again to those two little pockets on either side of the great Caucasian watershed, the southern one of which we heard so much about, so briefly, in August.
But the Ossetians, in their glory days of continental mastery, were not known by that name. They were sometimes Sarmatians, and sometimes Alans.
Every third Ossetian you meet now seems to be called Alan, and the north Ossetian republic, within Russia, is officially "Alania", as satisfying, I suppose, for Alans as it would be for me to live in Timia.
Meanwhile, the Alans in the south now live, supposedly, in an independent state, a miniscule country of 50,000 people, recognised only by Russia, Nicaragua and Somalia.
The rest of the world insists it is still part of Georgia, though the people I met there said that since the war they could never again live in one country with Georgians.
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2. More Linguistic Evidence that the Scandinavians Came from Scythia?
http://www.britam.org/now/1268Now.html#More
##The Continental homelands of the Anglo-Saxons
Contemporary Review, Dec, 2002 by David Burns##
 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1643_281/ai_96210739
This is an article suggesting that the Angles and Saxons who invaded England originated in Sweden.
It contains the following sentence:
 ##Beowulf was of the Geats, generally considered to be the Gotar from Gotaland in southern Sweden, and the poem is largely to do with the relationships between the Geats, the Scylfings (Svear, Swedes or Ynglingas) to the north-east, and the Scyldings of Denmark.##
Note the peoples mentioned:
(1. Scylfings (Svear, Swedes or Ynglingas) to the north-east
(2. Scyldings of Denmark
Both peoples are based on the root "Scyl"
According to Herodotus the Scythinas called themselves "Scoloti". This too would appear to be based on a "Scol" word root.
Were the word-roots "Scyl"Â and "Scol" in effect one and the same?
We have already raised this possibility in our book on the Khazars.
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3. Sambat meaning Shabat also found in Gothic!
http://www.britam.org/now/1257Now.html#Sambat
This is a curiosity.
In our works (especially "Ephraim")
http://britam.org/bkephraim.html
we speak of the tradition that associated the Lost Ten Tribes with the Sambatian River.
Sambation mean "Shabat".
From the GOTHIC-L group:
several weekdays names were borrowed by the Goths from the Greek in a manner like this:
SABBATOU hHMERA "the day of Sabbath" > sabbato dags (Mc 2:27 et passim) > *sambatadags > OB sambaztag > NHG Samstag
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4. Davidic Dynasty Website: Fantasies of Interest or Fanciful Truths?
http://www.britam.org/now/1270Now.html#Davidic
(a) Jeroboam son of Sariya "The Harlot"
(b) Abishag the Heroine?
(c) King George III and the USA: Rehobaom and Jeroboam all over gain?
(d) Tamar Tephi a Genuine Myth or 19th century invention?
(e) Yosef Dayan of Israel
(f) "Davidic Dynasty Tradition" Extracts:
(g) Dynasty of Makhir "is possibly Thomas Plantard de Saint-Clair"
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5. History: Were the Picts-Cruithin of Scotland Newcomers After All? A LaTene Cultural Connection with Neil?
http://www.britam.org/now/1271Now.html#History
Interesting Explanation
Background:
The impression is that:
On the one hand.
The Picts of Scotland were related to the Cruithni who dwelt in Northern Ireland and to the Cruithni in Munster in the southwest of Eire.
These Cruithni were subjects of the Milesians (ruled by the Connachta family of Niel) and are assumed to have been in Ireland before the
Milesians arrived.
On the other hand:
We have a very strong tradition that the Picts were relative newcomers who came from Scythian, went to Ireland and from there were sent off
again to Scotland.
Both these assumptions have something strong going for them, i.e. (1) the Picts were related to the Cruithni of Ireland.
and (2) the Picts were relative newcomers.
Since however the Cruithni have usually been assumed to be "oldcomers" the two assumptions jar with each other.
One explanation is that the Picts actually consisted of a mixture of different peoples so differing origins could be
applied to them. This is also true but then we would need to suppose that two of the different elements had been in
Ireland before coming to Scotland. This too is not impossible.
Along comes another possible explanation presented in the extract below:
This suggests.
The Picts were indeed relative "newcomers". They conquered the others (i.e. the Milesians)
who after a while re-conquered them and expelled part of them to Scotland.
Explanation of terminology:
P-Celtic is the type of Celtic spoken by the Welsh and Cornish, in Lowland Scotland, and
one of the languages used by the Picts in Scoltand.
Q-Celtic is spoken in Ireland and amongst the Gaels (Scots) of West Scotland who actually
came from Scotland. Q-Celtic is considered to be older than P-Celtic though we disagree.
The source below assumes that the Cruithin spoke P-Celtic which ties in with them becoming the Picts.
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Extract:
From: Alan R
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA] The Origin of L21
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2008-12/1229296574
I am not sure that the idea that P-Celtic was widespread in Ireland is still thought likely. I think that was an O'Rahilly and McNeill thing but that was a long time ago and I am not aware that linguists still support it. I would be interested to know if any new evidence of this has emerged.Â
However, I believe that the contacts shown by material cultures indicate elite spheres of interaction and this might be reflected by the spread of dialects. I think it is entirely possible that the La Tene culture that is known mainly north of the Galway-Dublin line (but with some stray finds as far south as Cork etc) indicated a reemergence of contacts (after 300+ years of isolation of an essentially Bronze Age population) with Britain and Gaul. I believe these were probably the people called Cruithin, a word that means 'people of designs' (which is exactly how people bringing La Tene art may have seemed) or implies some sort of British contact/identity (which is also how they might have appeared) or both. However, it is possible they may not even have been immigrants but rather locals who adopted the main west European warrior culture of the time for prestige reasons.
People tend to think of them as Ulster based but I think there are records of them dominating in Connaght and places like Laois and there is an uncanny correlation between La Tene finds and where the Cruithin are meant to have been before they were overtoppled by Connachta etc. That is certainly what the finds indicate. It is possible that P-Celtic was briefly known among the elite of the northern two-thirds of Ireland for a while but maybe the contacts were too weak to shake the older dialect. I believe that the pre-La Tene Irish were essentially Bronze Age origin peoples and that Q-Celtic was the language of Ireland in the Bronze Age.Â
What happened in Ireland was that the La Tene peoples were eventually over-toppled by resurgent old Bronze Age Q-Celtic peoples in the early centuries AD or perhaps there was a civil uprising that toppled them like the revolt of the Aithech Tuatha in Irish legends. This changed the elites again and perhaps the La Tene elites had either gone native anyway and were speaking Q-Celtic. Their La Tene material does quickly take on a very local character and looks relatively weak and 'gone native'. Whatever happened, I think old Bronze Age peoples overtoppled the La Tene element.Â
So the prevalence of Q-Celtic in Ireland was down to the maintenance of an archaic late Bronze Age form of Celtic. This was down to 300 years of cultural isolation c. 600BC-300BC followed by a rather weak La Tene phase which was weak and may have not been strong enough to alter the locals old Q-Celtic dialect.