"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote:
>And for making that excellent point.
>"northern portion of Denmark, still known today as Jutland, actually means
>'land of the Jews'"
Since it comes from an Old Norse word starting JOT, this remains pure
folk etymology.
>The only problem with this meaning of Jutland is it confounds the meaning
>and difference between Hebrews and Jews.
Ah, yes. That is a problem for your theories. They contradict.
>There were a number of other errors like this in those posts about the Irish
>link to the Israelites, and they seem to all stem from a serious translation
>error in the KJV.
>>The effect of this translation error, wherein both the Hebrew word "Yehud"
>and the Greek word "Ioudaia" were translated as "Jewry", was to give the
>FALSE impression, once again, that members of the Tribe of Judah or
>residents of Judaea were ever known as "jew".
The problem is that if the Israelites were not the Jews, and the
Israelites were the ones who went to Denmark (and they were the tribe
of DAN nonetheless per your other silly folk history site, why did it
come to be named after the Jews OR JUDAH LONG BEFORE THE KJV WAS
TRANSLATED - not that the Danes would have cared about an English
language translation).
Face it: your nincompoop theory is so full of contradictory holes that
there is no hope for it (or you).
>Furthermore, about the last place on the Earth where we'd expect to find
>jews is Denmark, which is a country blessed with more than 92% Christians
>(which is why they scored much higher than us in TIMSS and have a higher
>actual family income and standard of living than us).
Some other turkey said:
>In addition, Cymry, the name borne by the people of Wales to this day, is
>identical with the name given to the Israel captives by the Assyrians.
>Likewise, the Persians, who overthrew the Babylonian empire, always referred
>to the Israelites as Sacae; the Saxons are descended from this people.
This is so hilarious that it is sad. Wales was settled by the Celts
before the Assyrians took over Israel.
You'd think people would learn some real history before they start
trying to invent some phony history to fill in gaps that aren't there.
lojbab