One of the basic issues of Oera Linda research, or Frisian history research in general, is the issue of coastal towns and cities going missing due to erosion via sea. Over the years Ott has often written on missing medieval cities in Holland and how we know with certainty that even later medieval era towns can go missing due to erosion via the sea. Hence meaning that it's questionable if coastal Frisian cities and ports would survive at all other than deep underwater, hidden beneath an ocean floor sand layer.
To those Ott's lists of missing Dutch places can be added also Rungholt of Frisia, today in Germany. A vivid medieval settlement and town that was destroyed in beginning of 1362. Thus, everyone in the both pro OL and anti OL camps has an added difficulty level, as ancient Frisian sites just don't survive to us. The formerly coastal sites (cities, harbours and market places) would have been the prime stone construction sites, with the more relaxed inland sites being of more pan-Germanic wood, clay, earth and natural stone architecture style (which may more or less lie directly beneath the current Christian era buildings and roads).
Luckily for us, the issue of Oera Linda narrative's genuineness is not limited by this handicap of history, it's just the the architectural archeology side of the Frisian history that is.
Missing Frisian cities and towns
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Cú Chulainn
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Re: Missing Frisian cities and towns
The Americas have underwater structures present. It seems much of these coastal regions, on either side of the Atlantic, would have been prime time trading ports for the sea fairing peoples. Hard to say which port, or fort, constitutes a Frisian outpost, however the trajectory of identified areas with underwater architecture may trace an outline of these citadels for comparison and analysis.
The Biblical narrative gives us statements of “diver’s disease” and I had always wondered what this meant, until I felt into it further through second sight, and discovered it must have been the bends.
Even hundreds of years later, after a coastal collapse or citadel immersion into the water, people would still dive to retrieve artifacts of value. Hence diver’s disease.
Not sure about the cross referencing of Biblical texts versus other historical sources to find mentions of divers and their exploits, however sourcing for these references may lend an eye to a region, or specific settlement, where underwater citadel correlation can be observed to further determine Oera Linda framing.
The Biblical narrative gives us statements of “diver’s disease” and I had always wondered what this meant, until I felt into it further through second sight, and discovered it must have been the bends.
Even hundreds of years later, after a coastal collapse or citadel immersion into the water, people would still dive to retrieve artifacts of value. Hence diver’s disease.
Not sure about the cross referencing of Biblical texts versus other historical sources to find mentions of divers and their exploits, however sourcing for these references may lend an eye to a region, or specific settlement, where underwater citadel correlation can be observed to further determine Oera Linda framing.