The Oera Linda Book

The Oera Linda Book is a manuscript in imitated Old Frisian. It claims to tell history, myth and religion from 2194 BCE to 803 CE. I use William R. Sandbach’s English of 1876. Scholars generally see the book as a 19th-century hoax, not as a chronicle from antiquity. I still give the text, because the site discusses it. I say what it claims, and I say that the claim is not a historical record.

Ottema’s introduction is part of the 1876 book, so it is in the contents below. The Frisian text is one page, The Oera Linda Book (Fries). I did not split it. It is the same book in Frisian, with the old footnote marks. My review is The Oera Linda Book Reviewed.

Contents

• Translator’s Preface.
• Introduction.
• Comparative Sample
• Of the Old Frisian Laws, and the Language of the Manuscript.
• The Oera Linda Book timeline (as the book tells it)
• Adela.
• Okke My Son—
• The Book of Adela’s Followers.
• Frya’s Tex.
• This Has Fasta Spoken.
• Fasta Said—
• These are the Laws Established for the Government of the Citadels.
• Universal Law.
• Here Follow the Laws which were thus Established.
• These are the Rights of the Mothers and the Kings.
• Here are the Rules Established for the Security of All Frisians.
• From Minno’s Writings.
• Laws for the Navigators.
• Useful Extracts from the Writings left by Minno.
• From Minno’s Writings.
• From the Writings of Minno.
• These are the Three Principles on which these Laws are Founded.
• These Rules are Made for Angry People.
• These are the Rules Concerning Bastards.
• What is Written Hereunder is Inscribed on the Walls of Waraburgt.
• This Stands Inscribed upon All Citadels.
• How the Bad Time Came.
• This is Inscribed on the Waraburgt by the Aldegamude.
• All this is Inscribed not only on the Waraburgt, but also on the Burgt Stavia, which Lies Behind the Port of Stavre.
• What the Consequence of This Was.
• Now We Will Write about the War between the Burgtmaagden Kalta and Min-erva,
• We Now Come to the History of Jon.
• Now We Shall Write how it Fared with Jon.
• It is Inscribed at Texland.
• This is about the Geertmen.
• In the Year One Thousand and Five after Atland was Submerged, This was Inscribed on the Eastern Wall of Fryasburgt.
• This is Inscribed in All Our Citadels.
• How it Fared Afterwards with the Magy.
• Postscript.
• The Writings of Adelbrost and Apollonia.
• The Second Writing.
• The Elegy of the Burgtmaagd.
• The Oldest Doctrine.
• The Second Part of the Oldest Doctrine.
• This is Written on Parchment—“Skrivfilt.” Speech and Answer to other Maidens as an Example.
• Now I will Write Myself, First about My Citadel, and then about what I have been Able to See.
• The Writings of Frêthorik and Wiljow.
• Now I Will Relate how the Geertman and Many Followers of Hellenia Came Back.
• This Writing has been Given to Me about Northland and Schoonland (Scandinavia).
• The Writing of Konerêd.
• Now I Will Write about Friso.
• What Friso did Further.
• Now I will Write about His Son Adel.
• Here is the Writing with Gosa’s Advice.
• Here is my Counsel.
• The Writing of Beeden.
• Letter of Rika the Oudmaagd, Read at Staveren at the Juul Feast.
• Related on this site

Credits and public domain

Translator: William R. Sandbach, 1876. The English was published in the nineteenth century and is in the public domain. The book is generally seen as a 19th-century hoax.