Irish & Danes origin is Israeli tribe?

Now Dan and Angul, with whom the stock of the Danes begins, were begotten of Humble, their father, and were the governors and not only the founders of our race. (Yet Dudo, the historian of Normandy, considers that the Danes are sprung and named from the Danai.)

Edited by Northman - 13-Jul-2006 at 09:57

Originally posted by Aelfgifu In the middle ages, it was rather poular to claim descendance of either Greek or Roman mythological figures, or Biblical Figures. The English claim descent from Brutus, (roman de brut, wace), and I believe the Franks claimed descent from Aneias. And both Saxo and Dudo are known for turning history to their own uses. I would call it unlikely. Our teachers always warn the students that in history you can find proof of anything if you look hard enough. That does not make it true though.

His tendency to use CAPITALS and underlining to make his point comes across rather unprofessional.

I seem to remember from my �who is who in the bible�-courde there is little to no historical evidence for the exodus from Egypt. I could be mistaken there though.

One of his vital sources is from the 18^th century, most others are either medieval or after. Bit late aint it?

Dan is not really a complex name. It seems a bit thin to connect the whole world because of one syllable. It is quite possible other peoples liked the sound of it as well.

The connection may have been ignored by historians because of the Jewish issue, but it could just possibly also be ignored because it is not there.

The Tuatha de Danan in Ireland is claimed to come from Greece. As said above, everyone claimed to come from Greece. Gives your people a bit more flair.

Like I said, neither Dudo nor Saxo are particularly concerned with the truth, they settled for the desired explanation, rather than the truthful one. Wishful thinking.

The Finns are unrelated to the other Scandinavians.Bringing them up actually hurts his case.

Why would the Jews lapse into worshipping Baal, or any other heathen gods? Jews tend to be rather strong in their faith the past 4000 years�

Why is there absolutly no shred of either Semitic or Slavic languages left in Scandinavia? And why are they so closely related to other European languages, which are cleverly left out here?

The oyster-eaters were replaced by an agicultural people. But the Jews were not an agricultural people. Where did they learn? On their ships?

And now suddenly the Lapps were there already, while above, they too were Jews.

Irish jewelry in Denmark. In Chatillon-sur-Seine, France they found a Greek vase of about 2 meters high from the 6^th century b.c. If people of the time could trade that, some jewelery should not be too hard.

He actually falls as low as skull measurements here, oh please, that went out with the war, didn�t it?

No proof the Danes are no another people? Absece of proof is not proof!

How did small, darkhaired, dark-eyed, darkskinned Jews become of high stature, golden, or red haired, fair skinned, blue or grey eyed?

They appeared in Ireland before Scandinavia was heard of? Heard of by whom?

Magic�well, lets skip the comments on that�

How does he know about Scandinavian languages several centuries before anything was written down?

The line of Danish kings is unbroken since the Jelling dynasty, not beyond to eternity. Well, these biblical earmarks are all really a bit silly. Snake=path?

 

Sorry I gave up on page 26. No use going on with this nonsense. What a load of bulls***.

Really, Northman, before I was just doubtful, but now I�m absolutely convinced it is crap�

Yes, I also found several things wich sounded like speculations to me, but he isnt alone in these thoughts. Here is an Australian Jew writing about The lost Tribe of Dan.

Edited by Northman - 13-Jul-2006 at 17:42

As to where peoples come from... I once did a course on the Migration period and we watched a German series about it, and they had these maps with coloured arrows, and all the peoples came from Scandinavia on these maps.... My professor joked that Scandinavians must be very fertile te produce so may peoples... So they must have come from somewhere in the east, not really any other options. They didnt fall from the skies...

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