This is an interesting article with much information.
The author corresponded with Brit-Am in the past and may well still be on our
list.
The article is written in an objective manner though the author himself may
well take a problematic attitude.
He quotes from an anti-Semitic source.
The article begins by telling us of activists in Norway and Scandinavia who
believed that Nordic Peoples descended from Israel. It then continues to discuss
prominent believers in British Israel in general.
Some of the people spoken of were pro-Jewish, pro-Zionist, while others were
anti-Jewish.
At least one seems to have been half and half which is also a known phenomenon
in "Identity" circles.
Extracts:
As early as 1923 you could
read articles in Evangeliebladet about 'the fig tree is
brooming', and that the Jews would soon establish a Jewish state in Palestine.
These articles were especially inspired by the British-Irish Bible teacher H.
Grattan Guinness who in Light for the Last Days (1887) had written that
the British would free Jerusalem in 1917, which also took place when General
Allenby conquered Jerusalem out of the hand of the Muslim Turks, on 9th
to 11th December, 1917.
Kristen
D?ssland, Norwegian religious researcher, ethnologist, philologist, and
archaeologist. Wrote the book Norr?nafolket i Opphav og Vandring (The
Origin and Wanderings of the Norse People, 1946, 2nd impression
1949) in which he by the use of secular history, archaeology, and comparisons
between the ancient Norse religion and the Bible concluded that the Norsemen
were the Lost Tribes of Israel. D?ssland also wrote Israels
gud Elohim-Jave og oldnordiske gudsnavn og landn?msnavn (God of
Israel Elohim-Jave and Old-Nordic Names of Gods and of Land Acquisitions,
1949), which was a summary of his articles about his discoveries from
Norr?nafolket i Opphav og Vandring which had been
printed in the Norwegian newspapers V?rt Land and Dagen.
In the introduction to
Norronafolket i Opphav og Vandring Dosland wrote: "Already the well known Danish
historian and language researcher N.M. Petersen said that the mythical name of
the North easily can be explained by Semitic languages. Han was presumably
thinking of Phoenician or Arabic. The wise researcher of Nordic mythology, the
translator of the Edda, Ivar Mortensson-Egnund, has pointed out quite a few
Norwegian words which he believes may have their roots in the Hebrew language.
He has also shown that Voluspa and Havamal have many similarities with the Old
Testament and Jewish Sibylline books which probably rest on ancient Israelite
traditions.
Johannes 'J?ns' Jacobi
Eurenius (1688-1751), Swedish dean and pastor ...Eurenius used 140 pages
describing that the Norsemen were the descendants of the Lost 10 Tribes of
Israel, by using the Bible, Nordic and Greek myths, and history. He wrote that
the Greek myth of the giant Atlas was a legend or memory of the Norsemen's
forefather Jacob-Israel. He also believed that the myth of the lost land of
Atlantis was a legend or memory of the Norsemen's lost homeland Canaan, which
the children of Israel had disappeared from. Atlantica Orientalis was
also published in Latin in Germany (Berlin, Stralsund, and Leipzig, 1764).
Johannes Eurenius had to go through much opposition before Atlantica
Orientalis could be published, especially because many did not like changing
the flattering thesis which Olof Rudbeck had put forth in his monumental
Atlant Eller Manheim (1679), that Scandinavia was the lost Atlantis.
Atlant Eller Manheim is still a classic today. Rudbeck also believed that
the Norsemen were Japhethites (descendants of Noah's son Japheth), while
Eurenius wrote that the Norsemen were Semites (descendants of Noah's son Shem)
and Israelites.
Johannes Eurenius was a
learned man who was held in great respect for his teachings. He was also viewed
as a brilliant man of the church and was in particular known for his
linguistical and musical talents.
From Chapter VII 'The
SVIAR'S and the GOTH'S Origin from the Scythians or the Lost Children of ISRAEL
', where Eurenius wrote that Thor is a legend or memory of Moses: "Thor is an
Hebrew word, as well as the title of Moses. Therefore, he came out of the
thunderstorm and the unheard thundering, and carried forth the Law of God, which
in the Hebrew just as much marks Thor as a Lawgiver." (p. 109) "Thor is said to
have had a club with which he struck his enemies and opened the rock; which by
Joh. Mag. Hist. L. I:9, Adam. Brem. and Erico Olai is called Thor's sceptre or
staff, and which was surrounded by fire, and is a certain reminder of the
Moses's staff which followed him into the fire, hit the rock and defeated his
adversaries." (p. 110)
Eurenius also wrote that
the old temple in Uppsala was modeled after king Solomon's temple in Jerusalem:
"Of the temple of Sala. Just as the city had its name from the Israelites's
former residence in Canaan, so the temple in Upsala was an image of the ruined
Solomon's temple in Jerusalem." (p. 112)
About the God service of
the Israelites and the Swedes: "With all this you can nonetheless feel an
extraordinary similarity on all points between the God service of the Israelites
and of the Swedes, which convinces us of their relationship." (p. 115)
About the language:
"Furthermore, the language which we have kept confirms that our ancestors have
sprung from the fled Israelites and Scythians, since we have an extraordinary
mixture of the languages through which the Israelites stayed during their exodus
out of the Orient, and wandered through." (p. 122)
Albert Hiorth
(1876-1949), Norwegian engineer, inventor, and speaker. Hiorth is particularly
known for his grandiose plans for reconstructing Palestine after WWII, as well
as for his belief that the north Germanic and Anglo-Saxon peoples were the Lost
Tribes of Israel. During the Nazi occupation Hiorth was arrested because he had
a Jewess five generations back in his genealogical tree and because he possessed
a radio. Albert Hiorth used the opportunity to tell Oberst?rmf?hrer Wagner that
both the Germans and Norwegians were a part of the Tribes of Israel. He was
later released. His son Frederik died, however, in a Nazi concentration camp,
which was a severe blow to Albert Hiorth. He was thrilled by the erection of the
Jewish State in 1948, but also believed that the Jews were a mixed people with
strong Communist tendencies. Albert Hiorth had grandiose plans about a waterwork
by the Dead Sea which could irrigate all of Palestine. The Norwegian General
Secretary of the UN Trygve Lie suggested in June 1948 that Albert Hiorth's plans
were [i.e. be?] realized.
