LL-L "History" 2007.03.28 (01) [E]

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From: john welch <sjswelch at yahoo.com.au>
Subject: LL-L "History" [E]

Hi Paul,
Here are 2 quotes on Sutton Hoo:
"We learn most about the way of life of the aristocracy from the ship burial
of an East Anglian king in the royal cemetery at *Sutton Hoo* in Suffolk.
This was Redwald who died in AD624/5. The burial chamber in the ship
contained a good many grave-goods including weaponry, royal regalia and
domestic equipment of the royal household. A strange ritual accompanied the
burials of the royal personages on this hilltop. Inhumations were placed on
the perimeter of the royal mounds containing the almost decayed remains of
individuals who had suffered torture and/or a traumatic death.
www.btinternet.com/~ron.wilcox/ <http://www.btinternet.com/%7Eron.wilcox/>
onlinetexts/onlinetexts-chap19.htm - 27k -

An interesting but sinister reflection of Anglo-Saxon society are the graves
surrounding Mound 5 – the so-called "sand-men", which also appear to have
been human sacrifices. This practice was known among Germanic peoples in the
early Middle Ages. One explanation is that the Anglo-Saxon people of Sutton
Hoo were rebelling against Christian beliefs, and making a statement about
their allegiance to Scandinavia and their shunning of Christianity.

It is also possible that these people were executed for committing crimes.
All that remains of them are stains in the sand, but their postures are very
odd - some had their hands tied behind their backs, some were face down, and
in some cases the neck was broken or the head had been cut off and placed by
the hand or knee.
www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/sutton-hoo-helmet/features/other-graves-at-sutton-hoo
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They mention "perimeter" and "surrounding". The skeleton of the chief was
not found, but his bones are not the issue. A chamber built on a boat is an
odd concept, but is consistent with the light frame-chamber buried in the
Scythian mound of Herodotus' account.
I wrote that I don't say Scythians brought Sanskrit north , and so with
Saka.  Normans dropped their language for French, and probably Scythians
would have adopted local dialect if they were the culprits who raided
Jutland. (Norman rulers then merged with Saxon subjects' language to make
OE).
Possibly "Saxon" as /sahs/ "knife,sword", and Scythian as /scythe/
"grass-cutter" Gmc.*segitho, scissors, are both from the root "skua" as in
"skinned" by knife. After 900 years inside Ukraine-Poland, it would be hard
to define whether the hyper-active Scythians were  Iranian or European. They
seized Greek Punjab in India and with the fellow tribe of Kamboja, built
Angkor Wat in Cambodia. There the king climbed the tower to meet the Naga
dragon ancestress, as the monarch climbs the steps of Royal Peculiar chapel
at Windsor to meet George who has a dragon. The Sutton Hoo stuff is in a
dragon, as Vikings would say about the boat.
John
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