Missing Frisian cities and towns
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 20:13
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.
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.