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Отварям тази тема, за която ме подсети въпроса на Рокстън относно онзи текст. Въпросът беше за присъствието на келтите в Америка. :)
Та, необходимо е да се знае, че по всяка вероятност Свети Брендън е първия (засега) известен европеец (че и ирландец :) ) прекосил Атлантика. В много християнски източници житието на Св. Брендън е описано, макар че се смята, че историята с неговото плаване е похристиянизирана (както и други истории за ирландкси светци) версия на известната балада The Voyage of Bran, която се сравнява (и действително прилича донякъде) на "Одисея".
Кое е интересното?
Първо, известно е,че както викингите (търсещи Валхала - Валинор по нашему :)) ), така и Колумб , се били запознати с текста на The Voyage of St. Brendan - писана някъде през 6-ти век. (виж , описващ пътуването на Брендън. в търсене на земята, където е щяло да стане второто идване на Исус (според християнския текст).
Второ, през 1976 г. Тим Северин прави плаване с кораб, направен според точните указания, оставени от Брендън и доказва, че това пътуване е напълно осъществимо...
In 1976, Tim Severin headed up a crew who sailed across the Atlantic from Dingle in South West Ireland to Newfoundland in a currach. This leather-hulled boat, still popular in the West of Ireland, was constructed to specifications supplied by Saint Brendan who is said to have managed this momentous journey in the early 6th century.
Трето, колкото и да е странно, счита се, че първото и най-древно коледно поздравление е оставено именно от ирландци на един камък намерен през 1964г. в Уайоминг, Уест Вирджиния-първоначално се е смятало, че става дума за някаква индианска писменост и едва по-късно с шок се установява, че надписа е с огами, и че пише следното:
"At the time of sunrise, a ray grazes the notch on the left side on Christmas Day, the first season of the year, the season of the blessed advent of the saviour Lord Christ. Behold he is born of Mary, a woman."
Надписа се счита, че е правен, някъде между 4 и 6 век.
На всичкото отгоре в Ню Ингланд е открита келтска гробница , отпреди 3 000 години... Вместо да превеждам направо ще пейстна текста за двете открития:
It goes like this. An Irishman was snoring ‘neath the starry skies of North America nearly 3000 years ago. Now one might reasonably think this is nothing but nonsense upon stilts. But the facts are otherwise. At this very moment, archaeologists in Vermont and New Hampshire are stroking their chins and trying to work out what a highly complex Celtic burial site is doing in New England. The site consists of a passage grave and oracle chamber not dissimilar to Newgrange, surrounded by geometrically aligned standing stones and other carvings inscribed with Ogham, the script used by the Celts. Boffins reckon it was built in 800BC.
That’s one to chew on. Here’s another. In 1964 two amateur archaeologists unearthed a stone carving in Wyoming County, West Virginia, that boasted an inscription ten foot in length. They assumed it was the work of American Indians but its meaning eluded them. Many years later, word of this find reached the enormously respected ears of the late Dr. Robert Fell, President of Harvard’s Epigraphic Society. It took him all of a minute to work out that the inscription was an advanced form of Ogham. He translated the message into Old Irish, then into modern Irish and then into English.
It read as follows
"At the time of sunrise, a ray grazes the notch on the left side on Christmas Day, the first season of the year, the season of the blessed advent of the saviour Lord Christ. Behold he is born of Mary, a woman."
The Christmas Day carving has been dated to between 500 and 700AD. Dr. Fell and his colleagues then looked at their watches, made some calculations and reunited beside the carving just before sunrise on December 22nd 1982. And here they watched in amazement as the first shaft of sunlight came powering through the sky like a torch beam and struck the centre of a Celtic sun symbol on the left side of the panel. Gradually the entire carving lit up and the inscription exploded to life. Subsequent studies show this phenomenon only occurs on the winter solstice. On other days, the carving is only partially lit up.
In recent years, more Celtic carvings have been discovered in West Virginia (Bear’s Fork, Horse Creek), Kentucky (Red River Gorge), Colorado (Shell Rock Canyon) and Newfoundland.
So there you have it. Maybe they didn’t discover America but there can be no doubting that people from Ireland were zipping across the Atlantic Ocean back when Homer was a lad. (I mean Homer, the Greek writer, not the other Homer). And moreover they had the good grace to leave a cheerful and extremely clever Christmas greeting to anyone else who should stumble upon their route.
So, Nollaig faoi shean agus faoi shonas duit agus bliain nua faoi mhaise dhuit! And have yourself a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Текста е взет от един от букамаркнатите ми сайтове: . Цялата статия съдържа много полезна и любопитна информация и е безкрайно интересна.
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The Voyage of Bran - келти в Америка
