The Irish prove a young earth???
Hahaha... it sounds pretty incredible doesn't it? But really it's not just the Irish, but also the Norweigans, Danes, and Anglo-Saxons, Britons... I've been doing a study through Genesis, and was looking online to see if I could find anything on Genesis 10, known as the table of Nations, where the Sons of Noah are shown moving out into the different regions of the earth.
I came across this e-book, which I'd never heard of (on a site I never heard of), with a topic I"d never begun to imagine. The author is part of the British Christian Science Movement in the UK. It was the first "creation science" movement, done in protest to the Darwinian teachings of Evolution. The author of this particular book I found, Bill Cooer, titles his work, After the Flood. In it, he recounts the knowlege of God among ancient pagan naations, and moves into the geneologies that Kings often kept in their courts library, to prove their lineage from the founder of their people/clan and right down from Noah. That's right, these people kept geneologies in their A.D. kingdoms to trace lineage right down from Noah.
http://ldolphin.org/cooper/index.html
Amongst the ancient records that the Britons themselves left behind, there is preserved (in Nennius at least) a list of the ancestors of the early British kings as they were counted generation by generation back to Japheth, the son of Noah. But the history of the Britons as a distinct nation had its beginnings with the fall of Troy, and it is at this point that Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Welsh chronicles take up the story. [ch.5]
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To be fair, the Saxons do not seem to have brought over with them a detailed chronicled history of their nation like that possessed by the Britons or, indeed, the Irish Celts which we shall examine later. That is not to say that none existed, of course just that none has survived to the present day from that pre-emigration period. What has survived, however, is a detailed genealogy of the pre-migration, and hence pre-Christian, kings of the Saxons, and this enables us to take Saxon history back, generation by generation, to the earliest years after the Flood. But this is no new discovery. It was everyday knowledge to the historians of previous centuries. On Thursday 6th July 1600, for example, a certain Elizabethan tourist, Baron Waldstein, visited London's Lambeth Palace. His journal tells us that in one of the rooms there he saw:
'...a splendid genealogy of all the Kings of England, and another genealogy, a historical one, which covers the whole of time and is traced down from the Beginning of the World.' (1)
Later, arriving at Richmond Palace on 28th July, he saw in the library there:
'... beautifully set out on parchment, a genealogy of the kings of England which goes back to Adam.' (2)
And not only in Cooper's book do we see a geneological accoiunts of the European tribes descending from the sons of Noah, through Japheth (Sceaf is one rendering) and Magog, but after discussing the geneologies, and modernists attempts to discredit them, he looks at historical recorded sightings of Dinosaurs, recorded much throughout ancient A.D. Europe, up through the 1800s, and one instance in the early 1900s. In fact, many of us have read some of the historical accounts, but have not recognized it. Why because of mistranslation (purposeful?) and the veil laid over our eyes by "modernist" ideologies and teachers that teach an old earth and dinosaurs living millions of years before man. One account many have read is the tale of Beowolf.
By the time of his slaying the monster Grendel in AD 515, Beowulf himself had already become something of a seasoned hunter of large reptilian monsters. He was renowned amongst the Danes at Hrothgar's court for having cleared the local sea lanes of monstrous animals whose predatory natures had been making life hazardous for the open boats of the Vikings. Fortunately, the Anglo-Saxon poem, written in pure celebration of his heroism, has preserved for us not just the physical descriptions of some of the monsters that Beowulf encountered, but even the names under which certain species of these animals were known to the Saxons and Danes.
However, in order to understand exactly what it is that we are reading when we examine these names, we must appreciate the nature of the Anglo-Saxon language. The Anglo-Saxons (like the modern Germans and Dutch) had a very simple method of word construction, and their names for everyday objects can sometimes sound amusing to our modern English ears when translated literally. A body, for example, was simply a bone-house (banhus), and a joint a bone-lock (banloca). When Beowulf speaks to his Danish interrogator, he is said quite literally to have unlocked his word-hoard (wordhord onleoc). Beowulf's own name means bear, and it is constructed in the following way. The Beo-element is the Saxon word for bee, and his name means literally a bee-wolf. The bear has a dog-like face and was seen by those who wisely kept their distance to apparently be eating bees when it raided their hives for honey. So they simply called the bear a bee-wolf. Likewise, the sun was called woruldcandel, lit. the world-candle. It was thus an intensely literal but at the same time highly poetic language, possessing great and unambiguous powers of description.
The slaying of Grendel is the most famous of Beowulf's encounters with monsters of course, and we shall come to look closely at this animal's physical description as it is given in the Beowulf epic. But in Grendel's lair, a large swampy lake, there lived other reptilian species that were collectively known by the Saxons as wyrmeynnes (lit. wormkind, a race of monsters and serpents--the word serpent in those days meant something rather more than a snake). Beowulf and his men came across them as they were tracking the female of Grendel's species back to her lair after she had killed and eaten King Hrothgar's minister, Asshere, whose half-eaten head was found on the cliff-top overlooking the lake.
Amongst them were creatures that were known to the Saxons and Danes as giant saedracan (sea-drakes or sea-dragons), and these were seen from the cliff-top suddenly swerving through the deep waters of the lake. Perhaps they were aware of the arrival of humans. Other creatures were lying in the sun when Beowulf's men first saw them, but at the sound of the battle-horn they scurried back to the water and slithered beneath the waves. [ch. 10]
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There are several Anglo-Saxon words that share the same root as Grendel. The Old English word grindan, for example, and from which we derive our word grind, used to denote a destroyer. But the most likely origin of the name is simply the fact that Grendel is an onomatopoeic term derived from the Old Norse grindill, meaning a storm or grenja, meaning to bellow. The word Grendel is strongly reminiscent of the deep-throated growl that would be emitted by a very large animal and it came into Middle English usage as grindel, meaning angry.
To the hapless Danes who were the victims of his predatory raids, however, Grendel was not just an animal. To them he was demon-like, one who was synnum beswenced (afflicted with sins). He was godes ansaca (God's adversary), the synscatha (evil-doer) who was wonsaeli (damned), a very feond on helle (devil in hell)! He was one of the grund-wyrgen, accursed and murderous monsters who were said by the Danes to be descended from Cain himself. And it is descriptions such as these of Grendel's nature that convey something of the horror with which the men of those times anticipated his raids on their homesteads. [ch.10]
This book is a most fascinating read, and refreshing for strengthening and edifying your faith. If you love the old European names found in Lord of the Rings or Naria or such, you've got to read this book, and this will give you a new understanding and appreciation of your history, and strengthen your belief that the account in the book of Geneisis is indeed historical.
"Sanctify them by your truth, Your word is truth." John 17:17
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