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Ancient Finland and the Kievan Rus. 2022-02-25. JormaJyrkkanen. From Finnish Friend and Historian Pete Europa of Helsinki.

Kvenland is in Kievan Rus'. The lion was prohibited during Russian Suzerainty to be facing East towards Russia so since Independence this obviously is without merit. I took the Liberty of Painting my own lion and doing it properly.

EUROPEAN ROYAL FAMILIES DESCENDED FROM ANCIENT RULERS OF FINLAND, KVENLAND AND GOT(H)LAND — RURIK WAS A FINNIC RUS'-VARANGIAN KVEN FROM THE ROSLAGEN SEASHORE IN KVENLAND RURIK

• The map attached: An early stage of Kievan Rus', in 862–912. The modern peoples of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural origin. • A map and closely related article – Europe in 814, at the death of Charles the Great and birth of Rurik: http://814.kvenland.org • See also 'Ingria in 1698' (with a map) – http://1698.kvenland.org The Lion is a Herald of the Yngling Dynasty Based on medieval accounts, primeval Finnic rulers of Finland, Kvenland and Got(h)land gave birth to the Yngling and Rurik Dynasties, from which founders and rulers of many countries descended, including – but not limited to – the ruling families of England, Denmark, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Normandy, Norway, Orkney Islands, Rome, Russia, Scotland, Sweden and Ukraine. Medieval accounts discussing lineages sprung from the primeval Finnic King Fornjót and his descendants, mainly the brothers Gór and Nór – the founders of Denmark and Norway –, leading to the rulers of the aforementioned and other countries include, but are not limited to, the following: Beowulf (8th – early 11th century) • Íslendingabók (8th–10th century) • Hyndluljóð (a Norse poem from c. 800-1000, often considered a part of the Poetic Edda) that was compiled later • Ynglingatal (early 10th century) • Primary Chronicle (c. 1095) • Historia Norvegiæ (late 12th century) • Gesta Danorum (started c. 1185, finished c. 1216) • Skáldskaparmál (c. 1220) • Ynglinga saga (c. 1225) • Orkneyinga saga (c. 1230) • Heimskringla (c. 1230) • Hversu Noregr byggðist (oldest surviving transcript dates to 1387) • and its appendage Ættartolur (1387). • Fornjót – King of Kvenland – http://160.kvenland.org It is therefore not surprising that more Viking Age swords have been found in Finland than for instance in what today are Denmark and Iceland, traditionally considered strong Viking regions. Much of what today are Norway and Sweden – on the other hand –, was in the Viking Age part of the Finnic realm referred to in medieval accounts as Kvenland. • Europe in 814, according to University of Texas – http://814.kvenland.org More Merovingian era (c. 480–720 in Central and Western Europe; c. 550–800 in Fennoscandia) swords have been found in what today are Finland and Germany than anywhere else. Of the 80 Merovingian era ring-hilted swords ever found, 14 are from Finland. These swords were prestigious, prized possessions, believed to have been reserved for kings, royalty, and high nobility. More of the prestigious Viking Age Ulfberht swords and their Viking Age copies have been found in what today are Finland and Norway than anywhere else, in both countries over 40 of the total of c. 160 ever found. What explains the large amount of the late Iron Age (Iron Age in Finland: c. 600 BC – c. 1350 AD) swords in Finland, and the fact that e.g. more Viking Age coins have been found in Häme, Finland, than anywhere else? Would foreign raiders have brought to – and left in – Finland all the money, jewelry, and swords found in Finland? Archaeological, genealogical, and other evidence points to the contrary, for the most part at least. Learn about the Finnic-Varangian connection further down in this article. • Viking Age swords in Finland – http://swords.kvenland.org Among medieval texts discussing Finnic royals, Icelandic sagas written in the 12th–14th centuries provide 30 references to Finnic kings from the 1st millennium AD. Among them, in Egil's saga Faravid (Finnish: Kaukomieli) is said to have been the "King of Kvenland". The saga focuses on the era in c. 850–1000, in the Viking Age. According to 'History of the Earls of Orkney' ("Orkneyinga saga"), written in c. 1230 – centuries after some of the events it records –, the early 1st-millennium ruler Fornjót was a "king", who "reigned over Gotland, which we now know as Finland and Kvenland". According to Professor Emeritus Kyösti Julku, no geographical errors have been found in the descriptions of Orkneyinga saga. He asks why, therefore, the existence of the people discussed should be suspected ('Kvenland - Kainuunmaa', 1986.) The information is also supported by other medieval accounts, and today by archaeological and DNA discoveries. Historian Barbara E. Crawford says that Orkneyinga saga has "no parallel in the social and literary record of Scotland". Source: 'Scandinavian Scotland' (Scotland in the Early Middle Ages, 2), 1987, p. 221. According to the medieval Hversu Noregr byggðist ("How Norway was Inhabited/Founded"), Snær the Old ("Old Snow") was a great-grandson of Fornjót and – as in Orkneyinga saga – son of "Frost(i) son of Kári" (Frosti was the King of Finnmark, according to Sturlaugs saga), and Snær was the father of Thorri, and Snær and Thorri were kings, and Thorri "ruled over Gothland, Kvenland (Kænlandi) and Finland". According to both accounts, a great sacrifice was made yearly at mid-winter, offered either by Thorri (in Orkneyinga saga) or by Kvens to Thorri (in Hversu Noregr byggðist). Thorri had the sons Nór, who founded Norway, and Gór – the alleged founder of Denmark –. and a daughter named Gói ('Thin Snow'). Both Orkneyinga saga and Hversu Noregr byggðist are found in the Islandic Flatey Book (Flateyjarbók), compiled in the late 14th century, but – largely, if not entirely – of much older sources. The legendary Fennoscandian King Snær the Old is mentioned also in Ynglinga saga (c. 1225), in relation to Finland (Snær/Snaer in Finnish: Lumi / in English: Snow / in Latin: Nix, Nivis / in Old Norse: Snærr / in East Norse: Sniō). ➖ RURIK'S HOME A PART OF KVENLAND Prince Rurik was the founder in the 9th century of the early polity that became known as Kievan Rus', which led to the births of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. See a picture of the early stage of Kievan Rus', in 862–912: http://862.kvenland.org According to the Primary Chronicle, compiled in Kiev in c. 1113, Rurik was one of the Rus', known as Varyags in Old East Slavic, also known as Varangians, a Finnic-Varangian tribe likened by the chronicler to Danes, Swedes, Angles, and Gotlanders. However, clearly – without enough knowledge of Northern Fennoscandia – the chronicler was not able to explain the Finnic ethnicity of the Rus' in more detail. The Varangians were seafaring warriors and traders who in addition to Rus' included also members of other Finnic peoples/tribes. They spread their influence to large territories southeast of Fennoscandia. The Rus'-Varangians inhabited the coastal areas of the Gulf of Bothnia, including the Roslagen seashore where Rurik allegedly was born, located in Uppland in what today is part of Sweden. That general area and its Finnic inhabitants were in medieval accounts referred to in non-Finnic languages as Kvenland and Kvens. In the early 9th century, when Rurik was born, the territory ruled by Kvens bordered Roslagen, as is shown e.g. in a map produced by the University of Texas in Austin: http://814.kvenland.org. The vast majority of what today is Sweden was in the 9th century part of Kvenland. The names Rus, Ruotsi, and Russia share a common Finnic origin. In the 9th century already, and up to today, Finns inhabiting the eastern side of the Gulf of Bothnia, i.e. today's Finland, have referred to the area on the western side of the gulf – modern-day Sweden – as Ruotsi, and an inhabitant of the area as ruotsalainen, from which terms the names Rus' and Russia derive from. Only quite recently before Rurik's birth, during the Merovingian era, had the Sveas (Old English: Sweonas; Latin: Suiones, Suehans, and Sueones) gradually integrated with the Kvens of the region. The Merovingian era refers to the era of the Merovingian dynasty, the ruling family of the Franks in southwestern and south-central Europe from the middle of the 5th century until 751. Based on DNA findings and other evidence, Rurik was a Finnic Kven. He likely descended from the early 1st millennium Finnic rulers of Finland, Kvenland and Got(h)land, and their Scandinavian royal offspring. See Rurik's alleged place of birth and the ethnic groups in 840 in what today is Sweden: http://840.kvenland.org Still during the late Viking Age (Viking Age: 793–1066), and beyond, Kvenland extended to the northernmost arctic edges of Europe, based on medieval written sources and other evidence. One such source is a list of countries in 'Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan', a geographical chronicle and a guidebook for pilgrims about routes from Northern Europe to Rome and Jerusalem, written by an Icelandic Abbot Níkulás Bergsson in the monastery of Þverá (Munkaþverá) in c. 1157. Written about three and a half centuries after the birth of Prince Rurik, Abbot Bergsson provides the following description of the lands near Norway: "Closest to Denmark is little Sweden (Svíþjóð), there is Öland (Eyland); then is Gotland; then Hälsingland (Helsingaland); then Värmland (Vermaland); then two Kvenlands (Kvenlönd), and they extend to north of Bjarmia (Bjarmaland)." Based on that description and other historical evidence, the southern border of Kvenland had by then shifted northbound considerably from Rurik's lifetime, but Kvenland still then covered the Fennoscandian territory north of Hälsingland and Värmland. The names Varangian and Varyag also share ancient Finno-Ugric origins and are related to the Finnish language terms vara, vaara, varanto, etc. Similarly, the Finnish terms venäläinen (meaning Russian) and vene (meaning boat) and the Estonian term venelane (vene, in spoken language, meaning Russian) share common Finnic origins. Related to the names Varangian and Varyag is also the Finnish language name Varanginvuono (Sami: Várjavuonna; Norwegian: Varangerfjord; English: Varanger Fjord, meaning literally Varangian Fjord/Bay). It is the name of a fjord on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, in the modern-day area of Northern Norway. In his study 'Kvenland - Kainuunmaa' (1986, p. 113–118), Professor Emeritus Kyösti Julku discusses the maps of Abraham Ortelius from 1570, Gerhard Mercator from 1595, and Adrian Veen from 1613. In these maps, the name Caienska Semla is marked next to Varangerfjord. The Ortelius and Mercator maps are pictured in Julku's study. Caienska Semla can be seen written west from Vardø (Finnish: Vuoreija, Vuorea) and Varangerfjord. According to Julku – and others –, the Finnish language meaning of the Latin term Caienska Semla is 'Kainuun maa', which means "Land of Kainuu". Today, historians widely agree that the Finnic names Kainu, Kainuu, and Kainuunmaa and the non-Finnic name Kvenland are synonyms to each other. ➖ FINNISH TRADING CENTERS NEVANLINNA AND LAATOKANLINNA WERE RIVER-GATES FROM FENNOSCANDIA TO EASTERN EUROPE In 1611, at the start of Sweden's – historically a.k.a. Sweden-Finland (in Finland) – superpower era as the Swedish Empire (1611–1721), the fortress of Nevanlinna (literally, "Neva Castle"; Swedish: Nyenskans, Nyenschantz) was built in the Finnish port town known by that same name, Nevanlinna (Swedish: Nyenskans, Nyen). Nevanlinna – today best known as Saint Petersburg – is located at the mouth of the Neva River, on the easternmost coast of the Gulf of Finland. The Finnish word neva means bog. In Nevanlinna, a fortress had been erected by "Sweden-Finland" already over three centuries before, either in 1299 or 1300. That fortress, known in Finnish as Maankruunu and Swedish as Landskrona, was destroyed in 1301 by the forces of Novgorod, the predecessor state of Russia. Nevanlinna gained official town rights in 1642 when it became the administrative center of the part of the Swedish Empire known as Ingria (Finnish: Inkeri; Swedish: Ingermanland). Until the early 18th century, Ingria was inhabited nearly entirely just by Finns and the Finnic Ingrians. In Nevanlinna, there had been also a small Swedish-speaking minority population, and an even smaller German-speaking population, prior to the Great Northern War (1700–1721) when Ingria became part of the Russian Empire (1721–1917). • Ingria in 1698 – http://1698.kvenland.org The annexation of Ingria allowed Tsar Peter the Great of Russia – for the first time – to have a seaport on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Before then, Staraya Ladoga (Finnish: Laatokanlinna) had been Tsar Peter's only port where seagoing vessels arriving from the Baltic Sea could have anchored. Arkhangelsk at the coast of the White Sea had provided Russia access to the Arctic Ocean but was closed to shipping for months during wintertime. • The Varangian northern trading route – http://1004.kvenland.org (Kainuu, White Sea) ➖ THE FINNISH-INGRIAN TOWN OF LAAATOKANLINNA PAVED WAY FOR THE BIRTHS OF UKRAINE, BELARUS, RUSSIA Staraya Ladoga (Finnish: Laatokanlinna, Laatokankaupunki, Vanha Laatokka; Russian: Ста́рая Ла́дога; Old Norse: Aldeigjuborg, in Norse sagas) is a rural locality in the Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast (Historically: Ingria) in Russia. In the 8th and 9th centuries, it was a prosperous Ingrian-Finnish trading center. Staraya Ladoga is located on the Volkhov River (Finnish: Olhavanjoki), near Lake Ladoga (Finnish: Laatokka), 8 kilometers (5 mi) north of the town of Volkhov (Finnish: Olhava) – the administrative center of the district –, and 13 kilometers (8 mi) south of Lake Ladoga. Staraya Ladoga could be accessed by ships via the route of the Neva River (a.k.a. Vane River up to the late 10th century) from the Gulf of Finland. ➖ RURIK'S ARRIVAL IN LAATOKANLINNA, THE FIRST CAPITAL OF WHAT BECAME RUSSIA In 862, the Finnic Kven-Varangian (Rus') Prince Rurik and his brothers Sineus and Truvor arrived in the Finnish-Ingrian town of Staraya Ladoga (Finnish: Laatokanlinna, Laatokankaupunki, Vanha Laatokka; Russian: Ста́рая Ла́дога; Old Norse: Aldeigjuborg, in Norse sagas) from Kvenland. Rurik had been invited there by the local Finnic chieftains, to act as a mediator in the ongoing unrest between members of the Finnic tribes inhabiting the area and Slavic tribes trying to spread their influence to the area. Thereafter, Laatokanlinna was governed by members of the Finnic Kven-Varangian – a.k.a. Rus' – Rurik Dynasty (Rurikids). For this reason, the town is often referred to as the first and oldest capital of Russia. The earliest known written mention of it is from 753. Prince Rurik is believed to have lived also in Rurikovo Gorodische (Finnish: Ruurikinlinna, meaning "Rurik's Castle"; Old Norse: Holmgård, Holmgard; Russian: Рюриково городище), by the mouth of the river Volkhov (Finnish: Olhavanjoki) from Lake Ilmen (Finnish: Ilmajärvi). Rurikovo Gorodische was a predecessor center to what became Novgorod, 2 km north of Rurikovo Gorodische. Although Novgorod is first mentioned already in 859, no archaeological evidence of its existence in its current location exists from before the late 10th century. Novgorod is one of the most important historic cities in Russia. The earthly remains of Rurik are believed to have been buried on a bank of the Volkhov River in Staraya Ladoga, like are those of some other Rurikid princes. Recent archaeological excavations have produced evidence of a 9th-century village having existed very close to where the Staraya Ladoga fortress stands today. • Excavation site in Staraya Ladoga – http://youtu.be/qz9TEAlnMSY (Video, in Finnish) ➖ KVENS GAVE BIRTH TO THE RUS' KHAGANATE AND RURIK DYNASTY From the late 8th to mid-9th century, the Kven-Varangians – a.k.a. Rus' – created the Rus' Khaganate, an early polity southeast from the modern-day country of Finland. Varangians included also members of other Finnic peoples. The Rus' Khaganate came under the leadership of the Kven-Varangian (Rus') Prince Rurik (c. 830 – c. 879), a chieftain who established himself in Novgorod in c. 862, according to the Primary Chronicle. The name Rurik is believed to derive from the ancient Scandinavia term Rørik, which means "known leader". In the process, Rurik gave birth to the Rurik dynasty, a.k.a. Rurikids, which was the ruling dynasty of the Rus' (the Varangians). It founded the Tsardom of Russia and ruled it until 1598. ➖ FINNIC VARANGIANS (VARYAGS, RUS') FOUNDED KIEVAN RUS' Kievan Rus' was a loose federation of Finnic and East Slavic tribes in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, under the reign of the Rurik dynasty. The modern peoples of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors. An etymological connection between Kvenland and Kievan Rus' is apparent e.g. in old Kievan names. Ancient names for the residents of Kiev include Kwänen, Konae, Chonae, Kwäne, Quene, Choani, Cunni, Chuni, and Hunni (who chased away the Goths). Ancient names for Kiev include Kiaenuborg, Kianugard, Kaenunland, Kuenaland, and Hunugard. Kievan Rus' began with the rule (882–912) of Prince Oleg, Rurik's relative and successor, who in 882 ventured south and conquered Kiev, founding the polity of the Kievan Rus'. Before this, Kiev had been paying tribute to the Khazars. Subsequently, Prince Oleg extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley, to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east, and moved his capital to the more strategic Kiev. Oleg, Rurik's son Igor and Igor's son Sviatoslav in this process subdued all local East Slavic tribes to Kievan rule, destroyed the Khazar khaganate, and launched several military expeditions to Byzantium and Persia. Sviatoslav I (died in 972) achieved the first major expansion of the territorial control of Kievan Rus', fighting a war of conquest against the Khazar Empire. Vladimir the Great (980–1015) introduced Christianity to the region, with his own baptism and – by decree – that of all the inhabitants of Kiev, and beyond. At its greatest extent, in the mid-11th century, Kievan Rus' stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, and from the headwaters of the Vistula river – located in what today is Poland – in the west to the Taman Peninsula in the east, uniting the majority of East Slavic tribes. Kievan Rus' reached its greatest extent under Yaroslav I (1019–1054); his sons assembled and issued its first written legal code, the Rus' Justice, shortly after his death. Starting in the late 11th century, Kievan Rus' gradually declined, and during the 12th century disintegrating into various rival regional powers. It was further weakened by economic factors such as the collapse of the Rus' commercial ties to Byzantium, due to the decline of Constantinople and the accompanying diminution of trade routes through its territory. Kievan Rus' finally fell to the Mongol invasion in the 1240s. ➖ DNA CONFIRMS IT – RURIK WAS A FINNIC VARANGIAN In 2007, a genetic study by the Polish-led 'Family Tree DNA Rurikid Dynasty Project' was conducted on the 9th century Varangian Prince Rurik's modern-day male-line descendants: • The first Rurikid prince tested "was found to belong to the genetic haplogroup N1c1 – the so-called “Finno-Ugrian”." • Later, "it was discovered that the N1c1 Rurikid princes belong to the so-called “Varangian Branch” in this haplogroup." • Source – http://varangian.dna.kvenland.org In Fennoscandia today, people representing the “Finno-Ugrian” “Varangian Branch” – i.e. the closest relatives of the Rurikid haplotype – can be found especially among the now partly Swedish-speaking Finnic people historically inhabiting the coastal areas around the Gulf of Bothnia, mainly in what today is Finland. That region was referred to in medieval accounts as Kvenland. Its inhabitants, the Kvens, are believed to have given birth to the language which developed into what now is known as Swedish. Up to the late Middle Ages, the vast modern-day Northern Swedish province of Norrland was inhabited solely by the Finnic Kven and Finno-Ugric Sami peoples. Consequently, the settlers arriving in Norrland from the more southern parts of what today is Sweden and from elsewhere, and their offspring, typically do not belong to the Y-DNA haplogroup N1c1 as Rurik belonged. Most other present-day inhabitants of Finland in the “Finno-Ugrian” category belong to the 'Finno-Karelian Branch'. The N1c1 haplotype is not widely found in the Scandinavian countries but is overwhelmingly found among Finnic ethnicity. It possesses the distinctive value DYS390=23, which too is rare in non-Finnic populations of Scandinavia. These DNA findings support other evidence indicating that Rurik was a Finnic individual, born – allegedly – on the Roslagen seashore of the Gulf of Bothnia, in what today is Sweden. At the time of Rurik's birth in the 9th century, Roslagen represented the southern border-region of Kvenland, where only quite recently the Sveas (Old English: Sweonas; Latin: Suiones, Suehans, Sueones) had begun integrating with the indigenous local Kvens. The Rurikid DNA study also supports the view that Rurik descended from the Yngling Dynasty, a.k.a. Fairhair Dynasty, i.e. members of the Fennoscandian Finnic Kven royal lineage introduced in several medieval accounts, and that the Rurik Dynasty is a branch of the Yngling Dynasty. Numerous noble Russian and Ruthenian families claim a male-line descent from Rurik. Via Anne of Kiev, the wife of Henry I of France, Rurikid ancestry can also be argued for numerous Western European lineages. ➖ THE TALE OF BYGONE YEARS 'The Tale of Bygone Years', a.k.a. Primary Chronicle (Nestor's Chronicle, Nestor's manuscript), is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev in c. 1113, but possibly already in 1095. The chronicle is unique as the only written testimony on the earliest history of East Slavic people. Its comprehensive account of the history of Rus' is unmatched in other sources, although important correctives are provided by the Novgorod First Chronicle. The chronicle was allegedly authored or compiled by Nestor (c. 1056 – c. 1114), a monk of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev (modern-day Ukraine) from 1073 onward. Presumably, there were several earlier texts and/or versions of the chronicle, which were updated and combined by Nestor for his work. Nestor's many sources included earlier, now-lost Slavonic chronicles, the Byzantine annals of John Malalas and of George Hamartolus, native legends, and Norse sagas, several Greek religious texts, Rus'-Byzantine treaties, and oral accounts of Yan Vyshatich and of other military leaders. The early part of Nestor's Chronicle features many anecdotal stories, among them those of the arrival of the three Varangian brothers, the founding of Kiev, and more. ➖ CATHERINE II PROUD OF HER FINNISH ORIGINS The most influential proponent claiming that the founders of the early stage of Russia (subsequently of Ukraine and Belarus as well), including their leader Rurik, were ethnic Finns has been the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, a.k.a. Catherine II. During her 34 years, 3 months, and 10 days long reign in Russia in the latter part of the 18th century, Catherine II was the most powerful woman in the world. Both she and her husband, Emperor Peter III of Russia, were Rurikid descendants. In her writings, Catherine II placed the origin of the Varangians in the region between Ingria and Finland, i.e. in Karelia. She even wrote a play about Rurik, in which the dying Gostomysl instructs his followers to elect his daughter's son, grandson of a Finnish prince, to be their ruler. During the reign of Catherine II, three editions of a short review of Russian history were published by Timofei Malgin, who too was an advocate of the Finnish theory. Also, a work of similar persuasions was published by Ivan P. Yelagin, the literary adviser to the Empress and the founder of Russian freemasonry. The proponents of the Finnish theory include – but are not limited to – the following: • Catherine II • Vasily Tatishchev, Rurikid descendant, the author of the first full-scale Russian history • Mikhail Shcherbatov, Rurikid prince, historian • Viktor Paranin, historian, 1990 • Johan Adolf Lindström, historian, has presented also a Goth-Varangian theory • A. H. Snellman, historian, a.k.a. Artturi Heikki Virkkunen • Yrjö Koskinen, historian • Jalmari Jaakkola, historian • Matti Klinge, historian • Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander, archaeologist • Carl Fredrik Meinander, professor of Finnish and Scandinavian archaeology • Eero Vilho Kuussaari, historian (1935). According to Vasily Tatishchev, the "father of Russian history", the Rus' were Finns. Among other things, he based his knowledge on the Ioachim Chronicle. The original chronicle was lost. Its contents are known through Tatishchev's 'History of Russia'. The Ioachim (Ioakim, Joachim) Chronicle was discovered by Tatishchev in the 18th century. It is believed to be a 17th-century compilation of earlier sources describing events in the 10th and 11th centuries, about the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus'. Further support for Tatishchev`s Finnish theory has been provided e.g. by 'Chronicon Finlandiae', written by an unknown author, published by Christian Nettelbladt in 1728. In the view of Viktor Paranin, the home region of the Rus' was the Finnish Karelian Isthmus. • Continue reading – Catherine II – http://1762.kvenland.org ➖ • Rollo and William the Conqueror were Kvens – http://846.kvenland.org • Kvenland in 814 AD – http://814.kvenland.org • Links to related posts and info – http://history.kvenland.org

Columbus's Travel Guide and Map Courtesy of the Vatican and Jesuits. 2022-02-21 Jorma Jyrkkanen

Columbus's Forgotten Viking Travel Guide Columbus Probably Had a Map of the New World Added : Friday, February 27th 2009 by quarksandgenes Related Tags : geography, history, books, discovery Did Columbus Have a Portuguese Viking or Cicilian Map of Vinland and a Travel Book? 26 February 2009 The Catholic Church was very much involved in settlement of Greenland and Vinland, and the New World was mentioned in 1072-76 in the Document Descripto Insulariu by Archbishop Adalbert [Adam] of Bremen who was the Custodian of Greenland. He consulted with the King of Denmark to draft his document. The Church would have had enormous interest in seeing that a Catholic Explorer 'Laid Claim' to the New World. I found the document but its in Latin. Is there anyone out there who can translate it for me? Adam's Clip, note Qui Latitudenum: Capitulum 38. Praeterea unam adhuc insulam recitavit a multis in eo repertam occeano, quae dicitur Winland, eo quod ibi vites sponte nascantur, vinum optimum ferentes. Nam et fruges ibi non seminatas habundare, non fabulosa opinione, sed certa comperimus relatione Danorum. [Post quam insulam, ait, terra non invenitur habitabilis in illo occeano, sed omnia quae ultra sunt glacie intolerabili accaligineinmensaplenasunt.CuiusreiMarcianusitameminit:'UltraThilen',inquiens,'navigationeuniusdieimareconcretumest'.TemptavithocnuperexperientissimusNordmannorumprincepsHaraldus.Qui latitudinem septentrionalis occeani perscrutatus navibus, tandem caligantibus ante ora deficientis mundi finibus inmane abyssi baratrum retroactis vestigiis pene vix salvus evasit.] Schol. 37. Odinkar filius erat Toki ducis Winlandensis et sedem in Ripa habuit. Nam tercia pars terrae Winlandensis patrimonium eius fuisse narratur, et tamen vir tantarum divitiarum mirae fuit continentiae. Cuius unum virtutis exemplum comperi, quod omni quadragesimali tempore, semper altero die intermisso, iussit se verberibus a quodam suo affligi presbytero. More Attributions: Adam visited the Danish court during the reign of the well-informed monarch Svend Estridsson (1047-1076), and writes that the king "spoke of an island (or country) in that ocean discovered by many, which is called Vinland, because of the wild grapes [vites] that grow there, out of which a very good wine can be made. Moreover, that grain unsown grows there abundantly [fruges ibi non seminatas abundare] '

My Note: The Grapes they refer to are probably non other than Huckleberries, Partridgeberries, Cloudberries, Cranberries, Raspberries and Currant that grow wild along the rivers, all of which make good wine. JJ iSmoking gun. Qui Latitudinum means 50 degrees latitude! I nailed it. This suggests that the main settlement was futher south than L'Anse Aux Meadows and several candidate sites immediately pop up. I place my bets Vinland is the one with the pin because it has a sheltered estuary with probably salmon and a lake headed fresh water river. Both sites are at 50 degrees latitude. Another possibility is on the West side of the Peninsula where the lake drains into the ocean. A couple of good sites for Viking Boats.

Near the park there are several good haul out sites and available land for ssettlement. I would pick Sops Arm behind George's Island for shelter from storms on the sea and a nice bay to moor in. Another is the Estuary in the park of two drainages which almost certainly had salmon but Natives might have already occupied this site.

A map to accompany the document as any navigator would know, would be top secret classified information which any Empire Seeking Explorers would keep close to the chest, the Pope's chest to be sure who would have requested such in any case. It would be in the Churches of Greenland where all the hubub of discovery would boil over and blessing would be bestowed upon the explorers and settlers. A very interesting hint in this story was the fact that Lief Eiricksson the Lucky, went to be converted to Christianity from his Aesir religion in Norway in 999 or 1001 and was charged by the church to bring Christianity to the Settlers in Greenland, and this was also around the time of the supposed settlement of Newfoundland. However, he didn't honor his conversion though his wife did, and she had a church built in Greenland. Lief was the first Viking Explorer of Labrador and further south. His brother Thorvald explored the New World Coast between 1001 to 1003 and he would have almost certainly drawn a sketch map of the Coastline to aid with navigation, location of hazards with depth soundings in suitable bays recorded and to aid rediscovery and the return trips to Greenland and L'Anse Aux Meadows. Lief built the Settlement Huts at L'Anse Aux Meaddows and he offered their use to Thorfinnr Karlsefni when he went there with 150 people to start a settlement between 1003 and 1015. He would of course have had men on board who knew the location and they would have relied upon the elevation of the pole star to find it again or the height of the sun. The Norse were latitude sailors and might have known the value of keeping a record. On those records would probably have been the angle of the Sun or Polaris, to record latitude. The latitude of Home, L'Anse Aux Meadows, 51-52 degrees, and the Furthest south reached would have been recorded on that map, Death comes quickly to those on the ocean who forget the location of hazards and home. They may also have carved it on a paddle or shield or some such thing. I read somewhere that one of the wives of the Vinland settlers at L'Anse Aux Meadows Newfoundland had in fact travelled to have council with the Pope. Now what possible purpose would that have served, and what information would she have given him? A secret map might be one item with Polaris's or sun angles and dates, Thorvald's and others detailed Charts, along with drawings of every minute detail of life there, conditions, resources of furs, fish, forest and minerals, and the Skraelings dress, weapons and customs. Possibly a Viking Book? Europe was keenly interested in furs at this time because the Finnish Fur Traders were depleting the Continent at an alarming pace. There were also Marine Traders and among them a possible Cartographer, who visited the Greenland settlement. He was a Sicilian geographer al-Idrisi, who in Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, describes what could be taken for Eskimos to trade for Ivory, and of course an alternate purpose in going to trade in Greenland might have been to map the coast of Vinland which would be of profound interest to Traders. Admiral Piri Reis capture this map from one of C olumbus's Ships and it was probablyh obtained from Jesuits who had close connections to the Vatican and it would have been top secret at that time. It includes the New World so Columbus ventured into known territory but not adequatrely mapped as it turnedout. This map is proof he had a travel guide courtesy of Bishops-Vatican-Jesuits and p Leif Ericksons Wife in Greenland.

Timber was in high demand in the Mediterranean region at that time and he would have heard of it from the Norse at Greenland and been tasked to assess the availability. The Cod stocks were impossible to ignore as were the colonies of easy to kill and catch Great Auks. There was also a Portuguese Navigator with the Eunuch Chinese Fleet when it went on its World Excursion and its quite likely that he ended up with a collection that most likely also found its way to the Vatican, at least if not in fact, then copy. They became quite an Imperial Naval Empire shortly after those sailings. So how would Columbus get a map if one existed? He met with Monks who had direct connections with the Pope in the Mediterranean before departure, and of course they would have conveyed the wishes of the Pope at that time to him and possibly a chart. So I wondered why he never went further north in a broader survey in his explorations and one reason possibly is that it had already been mapped and he had privy to such map and it was no good discovering what had already been discovered. Another reason was that he might have wanted to avoid the heavy seas of the North Atlantic. Circumstantial to be sure, but too juicy to be cast away willy nilly. The question is, does such a document still exist in the Vatican in a special secret stash, or a Portuguese archive, or a Bishop's secret stash in Bremen. I believe he did and such a map exists, because he did not venture further north and the Vatican's involvement in Greenland was just too juicy an opportunity to ignore. Keep in mind that the penalty in those days for leaking a map was death. Today we get nailed with copyright violations, but it was the axe in those days! Talk about rediscovering the Wheel. I typed Mappa Vinland and got the Vinland Map. Incredible. Might be a forgery however, but is starting to look genuine. Carbon 14 dating puts the document before Columbus's voyages. If it was a Norse map, or Germanic, I think the Baltic would be more accurate because they were very involved in trade in that region. Vinland Vikings would have positioned Canada's coastline more accurate in relation to Greenland. If it was a Chinese map they would have known about longitude and South Africa and had accurate charting of Asia which is not the case. That narrows this map down considerably as to source. Italy seems accurately portrayed. The script should narrow the field. Adam mentions a Mappa terre Saxonie. Thats one I want to see and the one in the Vatican archives if it exists. Obviously, Adam used maps! Wonderful news to further the quest. Ottoman Turk Naval Admiral, accomplished Cartographer and pirate, Piri Reis made a World Map in early 1500's and he used all available maps of the time period and Colombus's Maps acquired from a ship which had a sailor on board who had been to the New World with Colombus and maps of the New World. That reference collection is an enormous treasure if it still exists. Here is the citation from the Piri Reis Map of the Columbus story on the Map Legend. He was called Colombo at that time. Here is what Piri Reis tells us in a long legend on the map itself: These coasts are calledtheshoresofAntilia.Theywerediscoveredintheyear896oftheMuslimera[AD1490]. It is reported that a Genoese called Colombo was the first to discover these territories. It is said that a book came into his hands which stated that at the end of the Western Sea, on its western side, were coasts and islands and different kinds of metals and precious gems. This man, having studied the book thoroughly, explained these things one by one to the great men of Genoa and said: "Give me two ships and I will go and find these regions!" "O foolish man" they said, "in the West there is nothing to be found but the end and limit of the world! It is full of darkness" The said Colombo saw there was no help to be had from the Genoese so he went to the king of Spain and told him his story in detail. The king gave him the same answer as the Genoese. At last, after Colombo had been very insistent, the king gave him two ships, equipped them well, and said:"OColombo,ifwhatyousayistrue,Iwillmakeyouadmiraloverthatcountry!'Having said this, he sent the said Colombo to the Western Sea.

My question is, is this a book he got from the Vatican, the one supplied by Vikings, and did it have a chart associated with it? I think the story is heating up. What book was that? Therein lies the story I have been chasing. Thank you thank you thank you Piri Reis for including that reference on your Chart and I am so sorry you ended up getting beheaded when in your 90's because you wanted to protect your treasures, but your Arabic medieval scholarship has unlocked a mystery. What started out as pure supposition in my mind some years ago is now looking feasible and suggesting that history has been knowingly falsified. It would seem that the history we have been taught as kids in school is not quite right. What did he do with that (Viking?) book I wonder? Probably had it on his shelves the rest of his life. I would hazard a guess that my research here has probably made that book the most valuable book in the World right now. Jormawankenobe Copyright 2009. J. Jyrkkanen. All rights reserved.(except images)

Love is a Natural Drug Addiction. 2022-02-16. Jorma Jyrkkanen.

My Story Love is a Drug in 9,10th April 2008 Goes Global. Jorma Jyrkkanen, BSc, PDP 2022-02-16 February 16, 2022 Love is a Medical Condition, OCLHD. Love Addiction I believe that love is a of obsessive compulsive disorder but since its natural its not exaction a disorder but rather a natural physiological phenomenon. The term I would choose preferably is an obsessive compulsive love hormone dependency OCLHD. I believe that hormones like endorphins, melatonin, oxytocin and seratonin are aroused during love and in thoughts of love and are addictive and losing love causes painful withdrawal symptoms just as a drug addict might experience. This love hormone or natural drug dependency evolved to enable and cement pair bond formation is order to ensure that the resulting progeny’s genes are nurtured and cared for by the couple who share this affliction. It is not so much a disorder but a genetic pathway nature has established through evolution and natural selection to ensure propagation of our species and quite likely most species. Those who love and have well functioning hormone systems will produce more offspring and ensure propagation of their genes and their species which is the measure of fitness nature uses. This raises the intriguing question, can we substitute these hormones during breakup or separation to get over it when reunification becomes impossible? Jormawankenobe/quarksandgenes Copyright 2008 Jorma Jyrkkanen Tags: melatonin, oxytocin, seratonin, endorphins

Are Greenhouse gas induced temperature anomalies causing global photosynthesis to fail. Oxygen decline argues yes. Jorma Jyrkkanen 2022-02-115

PHOTOSYNTHESIS FAILURE. IS IT OR ISN'T IT FAILING. OXYGEN TREND AS AN INDICATOR

MAUNA LOA GLOBAL CO2 CURVE

GLOBAL MEAN TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES

PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESPONSE TO TOLERANCE AND FAIL CURVE

INTEGRATED GLOBAL OXYGEN BUDGET SUGGESTING FAILING SUPPLY

THESE CURVES WHEN CONSIDERED IN TOTAL SUGGEST A GLOBAL FAILING OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS TO MEET THE OXYGEN DEMANDS AND SEQUESTRATION RATE

Natural Supplements to improve mitochondrial function or long covid sufferers. 2022-02-09 Jorma Jyrkkanen

Integr Med (Encinitas). 2014 Aug; 13(4): 35–43. PMCID: PMC4566449 PMID: 26770107 Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Chronic Disease: Treatment With Natural Supplements Garth L. Nicolson, PhD Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Loss of function in mitochondria, the key organelle responsible for cellular energy production, can result in the excess fatigue and other symptoms that are common complaints in almost every chronic disease. At the molecular level, a reduction in mitochondrial function occurs as a result of the following changes: (1) a loss of maintenance of the electrical and chemical transmembrane potential of the inner mitochondrial membrane, (2) alterations in the function of the electron transport chain, or (3) a reduction in the transport of critical metabolites into mitochondria. In turn, these changes result in a reduced efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation and a reduction in production of adenosine-5′-triphosphate (ATP). Several components of this system require routine replacement, and this need can be facilitated with natural supplements. Clinical trials have shown the utility of using oral replacement supplements, such as l-carnitine, alpha-lipoic acid (α-lipoic acid [1,2-dithiolane-3-pentanoic acid]), coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10 [ubiquinone]), reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), membrane phospholipids, and other supplements. Combinations of these supplements can reduce significantly the fatigue and other symptoms associated with chronic disease and can naturally restore mitochondrial function, even in long-term patients with intractable fatigue. See also my suggestions on this subject.

Hunting the Skagit Alpine for Big Bucks in the 1980's. Jorma Jyrkkanen

When i worked as a biologist in the Skagit Valley I discovered the deer liked to rut in the alpine and that is where I spent five fabulous hunts. I went by myself mostly and was very lucky, bringing home 4 bucks in five years. I always packed minimally because the hike back is long and hard. Had to cross the Skagit river by canoe and then hike to the top, and with a deer in the pack it was hard work getting back. On this occasion, I got my buck late in the day and just got him cleaned and packed when it started to snow so I climbed into my sac after having a feed of cooked liver. Next morning the trail back was hidden by deep snow and I fell off the ridge crashing with full pack into juniper and fir 100 feet below. After an hour of extrication, I managed back on the trail. I slipped crossing a swollen creek halfway down and fell into it face first. After getting up soaking wet I made it down to my canoe, across the river and to my truck at the end of the old dump road, now grown right over. When i took my boots off, my big toe nails had been torn right off but due to cold feet I hadn't felt it. Boots were full of blood. I had three months in convalescence while growing new toenails and they never did get it right fully. Who got who is the question. I loved these hunts. They were tests of endurance and spunk though. I miss the Skagit Alpine in fall. Beautiful and loaded with blue berries. This is how I fed my wife and kid while a zoology student at UBC.

My Armed Take Down of a Drug Crazed Knife Wielding Would be Killer. Around 1980.

Me Deer Hunting the Alpine Around that Time. I had to pack a big buck 10 Kms.

My Armed Takedown of a Would be Knife Wielding Murderer in Squamish around 1980. Years ago when I was getting ready to go deer hunting, I had everything laid out on the bed ready to load up including my 30-30 Winchester and some bullets and had my fatigues on. My wife and young son and I lived in an Apartment quadrangle at the corner of Tantalus Way and Garibaldi Way. Jeff came running in saying, "Dad, Dad, there's a guy out there bugging the girls and he is trying to kill one". Jeff never fibbed except when he said my stomach was too big so I took it truthfully. I ran out in fatigues and saw neighbors outside who said a big guy with a knife grabbed a girl by the leg and dragged her over the balcony into that apartment. I yelled "Call the Cops" and went for my rifle loading up as I crossed the quadrangle thinking time is of the essence. I went through the door and saw him standing behind her, a tiny red head in baby dolls, kneeling on the bed bleeding from the neck. She had two cuts, neither arterial. He had her by the hair. I saw his eyes were blurred by drugs so ordered him away from the girl and to get out of the apartment. I could have shot him easily but didn't want to cause I didn't see the knife. She said he has a knife in his pocket and his left hand was in that pocket. He grabbed her in a headlock and started out the door and I backed away to let him. When he passed me and had his back to me the knife came out towards her neck and I instinctively swung the butt and hit him over the head breaking the stalk. Frank, the young landlord had come in at that time and jumped on the knife arm. The blow stunned the Perp but he didn't go down so I whacked him again this time end on with the butt and down he went. I told him not to move but he was out at that time still clutching the knife loosely though. A neighbor who witnessed this through the doorway ran in and grabbed the girl and took her to safety. I held him there at gunpoint for a few minutes til I was able to hand control to a cop. He had a large gash on the back of his head where I opened his scalp. An RCMP member came through the door and a neighbor yelled don't shoot him, he's a good guy. He took the knife out of his hand and cuffed the Perp and took him to the cruiser and took a statement from me and the neighbors. He got charged with attempted murder to which he pleaded guilty. Apparently he was a chokerman on a logging crew who was doing angel dust and heroin and she, being a young mom with a baby decided she wanted none of it, flushed his stash down the toilet. I walked out into the courtyard with the rifle over my arm unloading to the cheers of a pile of kids who had gathered. One of them was my son yelling "Thats my Dad. He's a Hero". I gave the kids a lecture never to use drugs cause you can see how much trouble it can cause. I was trained as an infantry soldier so this was no big deal for me. I saw it as my civic duty to save a maiden in distress. If we had waited for the cops, she might be dead. Cops I talked to later told me they would have shot him in that situation so I saved his life, her life and risked mine cause the loaded lever action rifle was pointed at my chest when I clobbered him with only a squeeze or a bump to set it off. When push comes to shove, I'd rather not kill a guy if I didn't absolutely have to. My Dad had to do a lot of that in the Finnish Wars and it didn't leave a good taste in his mouth. We citizens are often the first responders to life or death drama and whether we choose to help or wait for others can mean the difference between life or death. It was the best story of the day in Canada and never even made the local newspapers and I never got any acknowledgement of it from anybody or any thanks. Copyright 2012 Jorma Jyrkkanen. All rights reserved. Tags: attempted murder, perpetrator, drugs, apprehended, crime, Squamish, BC, Jorma Jyrkkanen

Cecil McCulloch who rescued April Smith from Pedophile rapist. Jorma Jyrkkanen 2022-02-06

https://jorma-jyrkkanen.livejournal.com/215597.html Unsung Hero Cecil McCulloch Rescued April Smith from Pedophile Serial Rapist Unsung Hero Rescued April Smith from Pedophile Serial Rapist 16 October 2012 Kelowna, BC There is an old chap who sits with his buddies having a smoke now and then downtown and we got talking. I told him I saved a young Mom's life once from a drug crazed killer and never got thanked for it. Its just what Dad's do when kids are in peril. http://jorma-jyrkkanen.livejournal.com/204676.html Well, he had couple of stories of his own. His name is Cecil McCulloch and he is retired in Kelowna. If your name is April Smith and you were a little girl on Ontario Street in Victoria back in the 1960's you probably owe your life to this nice old man. Cecil McCulloch who rescued April Smith from Pedophile rapist.

Cecil15 He saw a stranger come into the neighbourhood and snatch a little girl who his son played with. He ran into the house where she lived and asked if it was anybody they knew and they said no. Cecil jumped in his hotrod and gave chase. He pinned the perverts car against a telephone pole and ran to the car and snatched the girl back taking her to the nearest house. She was sobbing like crazy. He told his brother who came with him to watch the guy but he left the Perv's keys with him so he took off and got away. Turns out the guy was wanted in the USA for prior abductions. Cecil said she would have been murdered after he had his way with her. Her folks and the cops never thanked him and if any of you are alive, he can be found at the Kiwanis Towers in Kelowna BC. April Smith, if your out there, give him a call. It would make him so happy. Turns out he also rescued folks in a house fire in Victoria back in them days and nearly lost his own life doing it. Just an ordinary Canadian Hero. Oh by the way, he fought in the Indochina War which ended in 1954 for him in the 3rd Canadian Guards. Canada, you should be so proud. Cecil was Captain of a salmon Troller for a number of years and has many good stories to tell about those days as well. After developing cancer Cecil moved to the bush on the north end of Vancouver Island for a few years, possibly anticipating dying. He bought no store bought vegetables and lived off the land. He ate Gooseberries, Saskatoons, Cat-tails, Nettles, St. John's Wort, Rose hips, Mint, Salal berries, Burdock, Elderberry (red, leaves for tea)m Red clover dried and in tea, Dandelion, Miners lettuce, Wild ginger, Willow bark, Salsify, Kinnikinik leaves for tobacco, Indian potato, Chantarelles, Wild asparagus, Wild teragon, Huckleberry, Raspberries, Salmonberries, Thimbleberries, Current. He said during this time his cancer went away and has never come back.