King Askar – The black nobility

‘All these latter writers describe a period during which the Frisian tribe became warlike and vigorous but bought power and influence by sacrificing the most precious property, which Frya had appointed them to guard. Friso's lineage certainly lent new splendour to the name of the Frisians, but it was a splendour from which the ancestors would have turned away in horror. With cunning and lies they wrapped a ribbon around the widely scattered tribes of Frya's race, but it was a ribbon that bound freedom in chains. They ruled as overly ambitious tyrants. The final section of the book therefore charts the sad picture of the moral decline of the Frisians.’

This is how Anne Johan Vitringa introduces the exiled Frya and Fleet King Friso, who emigrated from India with his and other clans, but who never became king of the Fryas himself. Friso was the first head count of the Fryas, who after more than two millennia (!) used cunning and guile to replace the matriarchy of the people's mothers and established the patriarchy. The outcome was inevitable: the Frya people split into ‘mother's sons’ and ‘father's sons’. Friso returned from the Indus to his homeland in 303 B.C. Harm Menkens summarises his story as follows:

‘What we read here about Friso, Adel and Askar differs completely from everything that our well-known chroniclers are wont to recount, or they look at it with completely different eyes, for example: all the accounts claim that Friso came from India and that the Frisians therefore originated in India, and yet they then add that Friso was Germanic and belonged to a Persian tribe that Herodotus called Germanic (Germánoi). According to the reports we encounter here, Friso also came from India with the fleet of Nearchus, but that doesn't make him Indian; he is of Frisian origin, of Frya's people. He belonged to a colony of Fryas, which after the death of Nyhellenia (1551 B.C.) ... settled on the Pangab (Indus) under the leadership of a priestess Gert and adopted the name Gertmannen. The Gertmanni are only known to one of the Greek chroniclers, namely Strabo, who refers to them as ‘Germánes’, a tribe that is, in all respects, completely different to the ‘Brahmánes’ in regard to their customs, language and worship.’

We do not learn the name of Friso's father. We know that his son was called Adel and that the people gave him the monikor Atharik (atha-rik = ‘blessed with many friends’). Adel was presumably named after his grandfather, according to the custom of the old patriarchs. We find a reference to this at one point in the chronicle itself: ‘Adel, the third king of this name.’ This would solve the annual problem of church chroniclers. According to their chronicles, Friso's reign began in 313 B.C., while that of Asega Askar ended in 11 A.D. In between, there were 324 years of rule spread over four kings. According to this, all four kings would have had an average biblical age of over 100 years. It is more likely that the church scribes turned the original 8 kings into 4 and were hence compelled to double their average reign of 40-50 years. The more likely succession to the throne after Ottema would therefore be Friso › Adel (Atharic) › Friso II › Adel II › Friso III › Adel III › Friso IV › Adel IV. (Asega Askar). Ubbo, who appears in third place among the church clerks, cannot be clearly identified here, as we unfortunately receive no information about him due to the missing pages 169 to 188. The order of the church chroniclers is Friso › Adel › Ubbo › Asega Askar.

However, the origin of the name of the aristocratic status or title goes back much further to the League of the Nobility, which was established in 557 B.C. It emerged after several strokes of fate that affected the family of Adela overa Linda, author of the 1st volume of the chronicle. Treacherous Magyar horsemen attack her house during a May festival. Her son Adelbrost, husband Apol and her father are still there. Adelbrost reacts in a flash: he grabs bow and arrow and shoots three riders from the saddle, while his father and grandfather grab their weapons but are unfortunately surrounded by the remaining riders. Adela returns and strikes down three more riders with three blows of her sword. Then henchmen rush in and seemingly bring the situation under control. But a poisoned arrow from the treacherous Magy hits Adela in the chest and she succumbs to its venom. Her son Adelbrost is found dead two months later: his head is split open and his limbs torn apart! Witnessing this atrocity, his ailing father Apol dies of shock. His son Apol swears revenge – and prevails: he builds a new castle – Lindasburg – in what is now Lindesnes (‘Lindasnase’) in southern Norway and his five sons terrorise the Magy, bringing fame to their father. Following the murder of Adela and Adelbrost, the most faithful members of the Adela clan come together from all countries and establish the Adel Alliance (Adel-Band) to protect the family.

Are we encountering here the founding tale of the white nobility, which was gradually supplanted by the black nobility some 250 years later?

The followers of Adela were still called Adelings (Adelinga, Adel = nobility in German) in the 3rd century B.C). Even 1000 years later, the covenant of the Adelings still echoes in the Beowulf epic as æþelingas. As history progressed, the name Adel/Adela came to mean the title and status assigned to the nobility. It is significant that the Vatican historiography of the Frisians begins with Friso and his descendants, who established their power with cunning and lies at the expense of the freedom of others, while the millennia-old reign of the mothers of the people before them fails to earn even a single syllable.

‘King Askar as he was always called, was about seven feet tall, and his strength was as great as his stature. Blessed with a bright mind, he understood everything that was said; but his actions were bereft of wisdom. His beautiful face was accompanied by a smooth tongue. But his soul was found to be even blacker than his hair.’

The question as to the identity of Askar's mother – from whom he inherited his black hair – is interesting in this context. It is obvious that his father, Adel III, could not have had black hair, because black hair was not common among the light-haired Frya children at that time, so that he was the first royal heir to be given the moniker ‘black nobility’.

His name Asega-Askar means a proclaimer of the law or judge (cf. to ask = to demand). According to Menkens, even centuries later ‘every judge who swore an oath to uphold the law on taking office in the Frisian districts was called ‘Asega, Asiga or Aesga’. The code of law given to Asega as a guideline was the Asega Book.’

It is the last story of the Oera Linda Book and hence the point of transition to the Vatican historiography. We learn valuable facts about the Trojans, the founding of Rome, the tribes of Twiskland (Germany), the sons of Thjoth (= Germans, see below!) and many other things.

‘[Askar] followed entirely in Friso's footsteps and pursued his plan to create for himself a cast of subordinates and a group of knights that were completely loyal to him. His whole life was dedicated to fighting the Gols [Gauls]. At that time, they had already crossed the Scheldt and were particularly powerful in Scotland. It is clear from this that they were constantly expanding northwards, or – to use the correct expression – that they were constantly being further to the north. In particular, they were forced to surrender the shores of the Mediterranean to the Romans, whose descent from a full-blooded Finna people from Troy is asserted in the Oera Linda Book. The Punic Wars – a protracted struggle for possession of the Mediterranean between the Roman Finda children and the Finda bastard race of Phoenician or Carthaginian Gols [Gauls] – resulted in the Phoenician Gols [Gauls] being driven out of Marseilles and the south of France. They then sought to regain the lost territory further and further to the north, so that – as we have already mentioned – they started to threaten Frya's land as far as beyond the Scheldt.

Askar began his endeavours with a march to Scotland under the noble pretext that he wanted to save the ancestral Frya children living there from the yoke of the Gauls. These inhabitants consisted partly of followers of the Kaelta or Celts and partly of exiled Frisians who had fled northwards – we must remember that Britain, as far back as anyone could remember, had been the place to which Frisian criminals were banished. His campaign was successful. The leader of the Golen [Gauls], who had settled in Kerenaek (elected, chosen corner), the former castle of the Kaelta, was captured. But it was evident that Askar had a secondary goal in this march, as he brought with him royal guards consisting of 600 Scotsmen.

He then convinced the peoples on the Baltic Sea and in Germany, the Jutes, Danes, Lithuanians, Alemanni and Franks to join his conquest. Although all these peoples were strongly mixed with Magyar blood and given over to idolatry and superstition, Askar did not adopt their practices, as he only obeyed the voice of his unbridled ambitions. And when he added the final flourish to these pernicious alliances by taking Frethogunsta, the daughter of the King of Hals (Holstein), home as his wife, the influence of the Finda priests started to gain traction as it had done before. The princess had a Magy in her entourage, and soon a pagan church was founded in Staveren. It was said that ‘Askar bowed down to these idols with his Frethogunsta at night and any other ungodly hour.’

Once the evil priests of the Magyars had regained a foothold in this country, there was nothing left to prevent their ascent. Askar became more and more intimate with them and soon turned into, as goes without saying, the compliant instrument for eradicating the Frya customs for all their sakes. Unexpectedly, the castle on Texland was attacked by Holstein ships and reduced to ashes. The last unnamed scribe (presumably a son of Bedens) is attributed the honour of having rescued the people's mother Prontlik and the maid Reintja and kept them hidden in his refuge or fortress in the middle of Krylwalde, east of Ljudwerd, a remoter site that can only be reached along winding paths on foot.

In other respects, too Askar sinned heavily against Frya's commandments. Because he increasingly turned fine countrymen into a nation of warriors and buccaneers, work in the fields ground to a halt, and foreign labourers had to be recruited in to do the work that had fallen into disrepute among the Frisians. Askar chose a common method in antiquity: he brought a large number of Phoenician slaves who had been captured by buccaneers into the country, partly to work for Frya's sons – who increasingly found it more glorious to make a profession out of war – and partly to use them as oarsmen in the fleet. This offence against Frya's commandment – which threatened anyone who deprived another of their freedom with death – did not go unpunished. The foreigners brought a contagious plague into the land, which spread far and wide, so that it was said that Askar had removed a thousand times more free people from his states than the dirty slaves brought in.

Finally, the moment arrived to make the decisive move against the Golen [Gauls] in Belgium and France. It was agreed that the Franks, Alemanni and Thjoth's sons (Germans? [see below!]) would cross the Rhine with a mighty army, while Askar intended to mount an invasion across the Scheldt at the same time. Askar had assigned his nephew Alrik to the allies as duke (army commander). But when the time came to put the plan into action, the King of the Franks refused to be under the foreigner's control. Betrayed, Askar was met by a large enemy force on the Scheldt. His own followers fled, and he fell into the hands of the Golen, but was later returned when the Golen failed to realise that their prisoner of war was the king of the Frisians.

It is at this point that the Oera Linda Book suddenly and finally comes to an end. His last words create a sad impression. Endlessly proud, waves of Magyars flooded over Frya's land. They commissioned the construction of a church built at Egmuda (Egmont), ‘even larger and splendid than the one built by Askar at Staveren.’ So, we bid farewell to the children of Frya, while they languish in the dark night of priestly rule and idolatry, in a slavery even heavier than that before the great flood of 305 [B.C.].’

This is where the chronicle ends, but from this last report we learn something so valuable about our origins as Germans – something that all the sources of the church scribes fail even to mention: we learn for the very first time the name of our name, one that we adopted ourselves!

‘Among the Twisklanders, there were two peoples who did not use this name. One people came from far away in the south-east. They called themselves Alemanni... The other people, who moved from place to place nearby, called themselves Franks... The peoples who bordered on them called themselves ‘sons of Thjoth’, which means ’sons of the people’. They had remained free men because they never wanted to recognise a king, prince or lord, except the one who was elected by common will at the ‘Mena Acht’.’

In other respects, too Askar sinned heavily against Frya's commandments.Because he increasingly turned fine countrymen into a nation of warriors and buccaneers, work in the fields ground to a halt, and foreign labourers had to be recruited in to do the work that had fallen into disrepute among the Frisians. Askar chose a common method in antiquity: he brought a large number of Phoenician slaves who had been captured by buccaneers into the country, partly to work for Frya's sons – who increasingly found it more glorious to make a profession out of war – and partly to use them as oarsmen in the fleet. This offence against Frya's commandment – which threatened anyone who deprived another of their freedom with death – did not go unpunished. The foreigners brought a contagious plague into the land, which spread far and wide, so that it was said that Askar had removed a thousand times more free people from his states than the dirty slaves brought in.

Finally, the moment arrived to make the decisive move against the Golen [Gauls] in Belgium and France. It was agreed that the Franks, Alemanni and Thjoth's sons (Germans? [see below!]) would cross the Rhine with a mighty army, while Askar intended to mount an invasion across the Scheldt at the same time. Askar had assigned his nephew Alrik to the allies as duke (army commander). But when the time came to put the plan into action, the King of the Franks refused to be under the foreigner's control. Betrayed, Askar was met by a large enemy force on the Scheldt. His own followers fled, and he fell into the hands of the Golen, but was later returned when the Golen failed to realise that their prisoner of war was the king of the Frisians.

It is at this point that the Oera Linda Book suddenly and finally comes to an end. His last words create a sad impression. Endlessly proud, waves of Magyars flooded over Frya's land. They commissioned the construction of a church built at Egmuda (Egmont), ‘even larger and splendid than the one built by Askar at Staveren.’ So, we bid farewell to the children of Frya, while they languish in the dark night of priestly rule and idolatry, in a slavery even heavier than that before the great flood of 305 [B.C.].’

The proof that the term Thjoth's sons actually refers to the Germans can be traced unmistakably in the linguistic development of this term:

Thjoth-his suna, Old Frisian for ‘sons of the people’ (cf. Tuisto as progenitor of the Germanic tribes) ->

Old Nordic. Þjóð (Thjod), Old Danish. Thiuth, got. Þiuða (Thiuda), Old-Germ. Theuda, Old English deod for ‘people’ ->

Theodisces (Theodes), Latin for ‘the nations’ ->

Teutisci / Teutones / Teutoni (Teutons) -> Teutsche -> Deutsche (Germans)

As an adjective: theodiscus -> diutisc -> teutsch -> deutsch (German)

Over time, the Old Frisian sons of Thjoth became the Old Germanic Theuda, which the Latins called Theoden and Teutonen, which eventually became the New High German Teutsch and Deutsche (cf. the Wikipedia article German (etymology)).

They were the neighbouring tribes of the Alemanni and Franks, which means that they probably lived in what is now central Germany in around 50 B.C. Research into antiquity has also discovered that the earliest historically documented ancestral seat of the Germans is Thiuth, now Thy, in Jutland – as evidenced by the visit of Pytheas to the Teutons around 345 B.C. (Schütte, p. 183).

It is also worth taking a look at King Théoden from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The fact that Tolkien's story is not just pure fantasy, but based on myths, legends and, in part, history, has already been proven several times (he was Professor of English Linguistics at Oxford University!). Arnulf Krause's on article Tolkien offers more than banal fantasy, while Ludwig Gartz's publications The Symbolism of Tolkien, The Destruction of the Ring as well as his Radio Sputnik show decode The Lord of the Rings.

According to official doctrine, the Minoan civilisation is afforded this status. On closer inspection, however, it becomes evident that the Minoans are merely one of the last heirs of the gradually decaying Fryas civilisation (see, for example, the documentary Crete in Minoan Times – A History of Powerful Women by Arte from this year).