The Old World is a reference to those parts of Earth known to Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus; it includes Europe, Asia and Africa.
simon wrote: Regrettably Adomnan's acct of St Columbass is not in the order of importance as Patrick's Confessio and Letter to Coroticus. They are earlier and are of pivotal importance.
Patrick wandered in the wilderness for 28 days after escaping from Ireland not seeing another human.
simon wrote: Not sure what is meant by "problem" with Anglo saxon gold artifacts. There is no problem.
The problem with the "Anglo Saxon" gold is the recurring Pict motifs, along with the Coptic Interlace.
Along with no earlier artifacts in the raiders tribal lands either on the Continent or in the northern peninsulas.
simon wrote: Britain is a very small place. There are no lost goldmines here. There is no Lassiter's lost reef or secret Maori gold strikes.
If you are interested in that sort of thing I have been told there is a gold reef in Fiordland which gets covered at high tide. The person who told me came from the South Island and his grandfather had rescued the explorer who found it, sadly he died before revealing much more.
I was referring to hoards of the sea raiders found at their homes on continental Europe, not the Scottish hoards.
is ignored in all of this, and the analysis of the Gododin/Ventureiones capital at Edinburgh is extended there.
simon wrote: Who these locals are one cannot comment but if they are interfering with Pictish monuments they are breaking the law.
The major Shawnee/Cherokee ancestral complex located at Lancaster now lies under the new Walmart there!
simon wrote: Why on earth would you think only Christians traded with Gaul. Have you not heard of Sutton Hoo?
The garnets come from around the baltic. This has been answered. The silver bowls from Sutton Hoo come rom Syria. They may be St Augustine's originals. They have been analysed scientifically there is no reasonable doubt.
The hoardes issue still applies. They not be plunder and I haven't heard of any such finds definitively stated to come from Britain. It would be near impossible to prove.
Not sure what is meant by workshops? Precious metals were worked under the eye of the emperor at the imperial court. Same applies to local rulers.
To give yo an idea of the importance of the Life of Columba, this passage appears to be a reference to Vortigern, with a location given, and a rough and very confused description of Mithraic rites. It wold be nice to have the Andersons' text and translation at hand,
THE following is told as having occurred in the house of a rich peasant named Foirtgirn, who lived in Mount Cainle (not identified). When the saint was staying there, he decided justly a dispute between two rustics, whose coming to him he knew beforehand: and one of them, who was a sorcerer, took milk, by his diabolical art, at the command of the saint, from a bull that was near. This the saint directed to be done, not to confirm these sorceries--God forbid! but to put an end to them in the presence of all the people. The blessed man, therefore, demanded that the vessel, full, as it seemed to be, of this milk, should be immediately given to him; and he blessed it with this sentence, saying: "Now it shall in this way be proved that this is not true milk, as it is supposed to be, but blood, which is coloured by the artifice of demons to impose on men." This was no sooner said than the milky colour gave place to the true natural colour of blood. The bull also, which in the space of one hour wasted and pined away with a hideous leanness, and was all but dead, was sprinkled with water that had been blessed by the saint, and recovered with astonishing rapidity.
I am sorry this is entirely irrelvant. Patrick is a contemporary. As is Gildas. Have you even read these sources? And I do not underestand the last bit. Bazas still exists.
There is n o question where the garnets come from. And frankly coming from someone who quotes a saints life as a source this is rather rich.
Sorry the origins of the gold and precious material has been established. End of. What atoms are supposed to prove is neither her nor there. Presumably you mean crystallography etc. To repeat, this has been done. Many so called Viking items in Sweden etc have been traced to their areas of origin.
Sorry I cannot understand the English here. What do you mean, what local church centres? Sutton Hoo was not a church. Presumably they camer from the Vatican since that is where Augustine came from. This is referred to in Bede.
And no one has located Julius Caesar's head, do you doubt he had one? I think you do not quite understand how ancient products were manufactured. There were not big modern factories,
Am I to assume you beleive this? I am sorry but one cannot discuss these issues with someone who haas not read the sources. The above is simply a demonstratin of why Saint's lives are generally not credible.
I do not "believe" The life of Columba. What I am interested in are the original sources used to construct it.
it took so swift a hold that homesteads and threshing floors with the grain still spread out on them
(which was set out immediately above), but instead matches the events of the annal entry for 580 CE.
"The city of Bazas was burned, so that the churches and the houses belonging to them were destroyed.
The most important thing to note is that Orleans (Civitas Aurelianorum) is not in the Bordeaux region –
and if an impactor or small fragments had hit there, Gregory surely would have told us much more about it.
Finally, both stories share the same precise detail that the impact occurred at threshing time: August 10 or so, anyone?
an addition made by either Cumene or Adomnan during their conversion of the Iona annals entry to the present tense:
simon wrote: Sorry I cannot understand the English here. What do you mean, what local church centres?
Presumably they camer from the Vatican since that is where Augustine came from. This is referred to in Bede.
but instead plunder from early church centers, plunder which had been handed down by the original raiding princes.
Sorry I have read Gregory of Tours and studied his work. None of this is remotrely relevant. What is the point here? Just to show you have read Gregaory of Tours?
The only relevant thing here is that Gregory states that Æthelberh was " a man of Kent". What do yuou think this means
May I suggest that instead of posting huge irrlevant quotes and trying to suggest Roman Gaul was destroyed by meteors you read these sources.
I comment on your entries but you ignore mine - I await your views on decurions in sub roman Britain
Then I suggest a course in reading, It is quite established info now. The Staffordshire hoard was identified in a year.
I simply do not understand this strange remark. You beleive they got their gold from outer space? Even though it has been proved scientifically where it comes from.
Again I do not understand this. Spanish labs? Why bother trying to locate something that has been located?
You seem not to be able to accept facts. Why should a Spanish lab be better than one in Ohio or Manchester?
Since roughly 1997, I have been retrieving accounts of geologically "recent" asteroid and comet impacts
simon wrote: Sorry I have read Gregory of Tours and studied his work. None of this is remotrely relevant.
In 1997, I became aware of the work of Clube and Napier and others on recent asteoid and comet impacts.
I consider further work at Bazas the responsibility of the French archaeological authorities and the CNRS.
I am greatly enjoying watching the videos about the CAM-CAD print on demand work being done in Birmingham
simon wrote: May I suggest that instead of posting huge irrelevant quotes and trying to suggest Roman Gaul was destroyed by meteors you read these sources.
simon wrote: I comment on your entries but you ignore mine - I await your views on decurions in sub roman Britain
Sorry this is incoherent. Do you know what a decurion is? What is your view? Is it not this reference intriguing?
I am talking about aculturisation. The reason you and I speak and read English and largely think the way we do.