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21 October 2011, 23 Tishrei 5772.
Contents:
1. Tore Gannholm: Phoenician Influence in Scandinavia.
2. Margaret Anne Cusack: Phoenicians in Spain and Ireland?
3. Huns in Scandinavia and Germany?
1. Tore Gannholm: Phoenician Influence
in Scandinavia.
Subject: Re: [Germanic-L] Scandinavians in Bronze Age Britain?
With the Bronze Age there is a marked change in grave forms. Its mature stage is
characterized by the burial mounds and barrows of impressive dimensions. They
are often located near coasts and dominant high points in the landscape. The
over-looking location on the mountain summits at coastal strip roads marks the
contact with the sea highroad and distant seas. The mighty piles have been
designed to capture the seafaring look. We live in a maritime era. Trade,
especially amber trade, experience in the Bronze Age, a large bloom. The
extensive trade relations conveys influences from outside. From southern
cultural centres - Egypt, Crete, Mycenae - spiritual impulses stretched their
effects also to Scandinavia. Both the external design of the graves and the
lavish burial gifts bear witness to a rich and self-conscious upper class.
The Bronze Age is the most uniform of the pre historic ages. Its object stock is
limited and easily transparent. Its principal products are weapons, jewelry and
cult objects, while things that represent the working life, everyday world, are
scarce. This high culture occurs suddenly and is very similar to Phoenician
culture as well as with Mycenaean.
2. Margaret Anne Cusack: Phoenicians in Spain and Ireland?
Phoenician Colonists
http://www.libraryireland.com/HistoryIreland/Phoenician-Colonists.php
From An Illustrated History of Ireland by Margaret Anne Cusack
Quote:
Spanish historians add their testimony,
and claim the Phoenicians as their principal colonizers. The Hispania
Illustrata,a rare and valuable work, on which no less than sixty writers were
engaged, fixes the date of the colonization of Spain by the Phoenicians at 764
A.C. De Bellegarde says: "The first of whom mention is made in history is
Hercules, the Phoenician, by some called Melchant." It is alleged that he lived
in the time of Moses, and that he retired into Spain when the Israelites entered
the land of promise. This will be consistent with old accounts, if faith can be
placed in the inscription of two columns, which were found in the province of
Tingitane, at the time of the historian Procopius.[5] A Portuguese historian,
Emanuel de Faria y Sousa, mentions the sailing of Gatelus from Egypt, with his
whole family, and names his two sons, Iberus and Himerus, the first of whom, he
says, "some will have to have sailed into Ireland, and given the name Hibernia
to it."
Indeed, so strong has been the concurrent testimony of a Phoenician colonization
of Ireland from Spain, and this by independent authorities, who could not have
had access to our bardic histories, and who had no motive, even had they known
of their existence, to write in confirmation of them, that those who have
maintained the theory of a Gaulish colonization of Ireland, have been obliged to
make Spain the point of embarkation.
3. Huns in Scandinavia and Germany?
From: faltin2001
[Germanic-L] Re: St. Olaf the Hun
Hi Ingemar,
there is a very good two-volume book by Bodo Anke called "Studien zur
Reiternomadischen Kultur ...". It sets out very nice what cultural traits would
identify bearers of the horse nomadic culture of south eastern Europe. One
particularly prominent one is the custom of artificial skull
deformation/elongation. Anke has the longest and most thorough analysis of this
custom I have ever found (pp 124-136).
He shows that this custom originated in central Asia and that it was transmitted
to Europe through the Hunnic expansion in the first half of the 5th century.
Anke shows that everywhere where members of this Hunnnic federation went you
will also find examples of this customs in the grave yards. In south eastern
Europe in some burial grounds the share of skeletons with artificially deformed
skulls is 80%, including men, women and children.
The frequency of the occurrence declines from east to west. One concentration is
found in Moravia, which may be associated with the Herulic kingdom that existed
there in the second half of the 5th century. In Moravia, there are also examples
of women, men and children.
Other centers are in middle Germany (Thuringia), south Germany and south west
Germany, the middle Rhineland and the Rhone area. In these regions, most
examples are women and there has been no instance of a child that was subjected
to this custom found so far. In other words, these people probably didn't adopt
the custom, but received people that did to live and die amongst them.
The people living in these regions, i.e. Thuringians, Burgundians and Alamanni
were all mentioned to have fought with the Huns at the battle of the Catalaunian
fields. In any way they were somehow linked to the Hunnic empire.
If Lotte Hedeager claims that the Huns established some kind of direct rule also
in Scandinavia, she will probably have to show that grave yards there also
contain examples of skeletons with artificially elongated skulls, either
representing people who practiced this custom directly or as a population that
received people who had previously lived in some close relationship with the
Hunnic empire on the continent.
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