Thet Oera Linda Bok, Naar een Handschrift uit de Dertiende Eeuw by J. G. Ottema

"Thet Oera Linda Bok, Naar een Handschrift uit de Dertiende Eeuw" by J. G. Ottema is a manuscript in pseudo-runic script brought forward in 1867. Presented as an ancient Frisian chronicle, it claims a 4,000-year-old civilization and traces European peoples to Frisian origins through three ancestral mothers. The work depicts conflicts between free Frisians and eastern peoples, weaving legendary figures like Wodin and Odysseus into an alternate history. Long considered a forgery, it's now viewed as mystification or parody. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Translator Ottema, J. G. (Jan Gerhardus), 1804-1879
Title Thet Oera Linda Bok, Naar een Handschrift uit de Dertiende Eeuw
Note Wikipedia page on this work: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oera_Linda
Credits Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was
produced from scanned images of public domain material
from the Google Print project.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language Frisian
Language Dutch
LoC Class PF: Language and Literatures: West Germanic
Subject Frisian language -- Texts
Category Text
eBook-No. 30467
Release Date
Last Update Oct 24, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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