The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps
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obvious and historically significant. We have seen that the inscription of Part-olon-the-Scot, and its more or less contemporary inscription at Lunasting, exhibit the radical and grammatical structure of the Gothic—the language of a people who are disclosed, as we have seen, to be Khatti, Catti, Guti or Gad or Hitt-ites, primitive Goths. In view of this fact, and the fact that the great epics of the Goths, the Eddas—which, I find, are truly historical and not mythical in their personages'—are found by the best authorities to have been mostly composed in Britain, and in a Gothic dialect which was presumably the Early British language as current in Britain about the beginning of the Christian era, I find that this Gothic of the Eddas, the tongue of our Briton ancestors, based on the old Trojan Doric, was the real basis of the “ English’ language and not the Anglo-Saxon, although the latter is a kindred dialect. Thus this early British Doric seems best described as “ Early British Gothic,’ and such I venture to callit. The essentially Gothic character of the “‘ English ’’ language is evident also from the greatest of English classics, the English translation of the Bible, wherein it will be seen that the early translators, Wyclifie (1389 a.p.) and Tyndale (1526),on which our modern version is based, largely followed the wordings used by old Bishop Ulfilas the Goth in his Gothic translation of 350 A.D., although his Visi-Gothic dialect had diverged considerably from the Gothic of the British Eddas.
“ Anglo-Saxon,” on the other hand, has no early writings extant to attest what the language of these Germanic invaders was at the period before and when they entered Britain in 449 A.D. The early Saxon language was markedly different from the so-called “ Anglo-Saxon’’ of Britain, which latter first appears in the poems of Cadmon about 650 A.D., that is, over two centuries after the Anglo-Saxon invaders had mixed with and adopted the Laws of the Britons who spoke British Gothic. Cedmon, although now called “ the first Anglo-Saxon or English poet,’ appears to
+ Thor, rst king of ist Aryan dynasty was only latterly deified.
+ But his poems are only known in the vernacular in a MS. dating no earlier than Iooo A.D., except his Hymn cited by King Alfred about a century earlier,