Remembering Vinland

Remembering Vinland

Through diligent research, integrity, and intellectual honesty, I have decided to once again re-name my blog- it will now be known as 'Remembering Vinland'.

Several things have occurred to me- first of all, as seen in my last post, scholarly research into Atlantis and other "Lost Civilizations" is a serious, tangible inquiry that has yielded quite a few results in favor of the former existence of such places- Atlantis having been an island continent in the Northern Atlantic Ocean.  The ancient Celts in particular had a strong cultural rememberence of this, which gave rise to the notion of TirNanOg, Avalon, Atlantis, The Land of the Hills (most likely New England, referring to the morning fogs, mounds and Stone Chambers), etc.  The problem is, the pre-Christian Celtic world, even the names of the ancient great monarchs, are mostly lost and/or obscured from history.

TirNanOg for instance was "the land of the Other World beyond the Western Ocean."  As author Robert Charroux had explained in one of his books, this was true in both a literal sense as well as a magical sense.  My interpretation of the New England/ upstate New York Stone Chambers has come to be thus- they were the Sun temples of the Celtic Sun God Bel (aka Baal), but probably also the final resting places of some of the ancient Celtic monarchs- for instance, the twin chambers at Gungywamp (which is an ancient Celtic word, and not a Native Algonquian term), in Groton CT., may have been the resting place of a male and female monarch, possibly somebody with the prefix -Con as a title to their name, ancestors of St. Colomba, abbot of Iona circa 565 A.D.- these were sea-faring people.  For instance, the King may have been buried in the Sun Chamber, the Queen in the "Mother Earth" Chamber.

And, in fact, a Celtic urn (possibly a burial urn with former cremated remains) was indeed found in one of the Stone Chambers by two amateur enthusiasts at Gungywamp many decades ago- the sample, when handed over to professional archaeologists for further analysis simply disappered and was never heard from again.

We do know that the Norsemen's Vinland, circa 1000 A.D. which was the New England region, was a reference meaning "VineLand" (an abundance of wild grapes), which in turn referred to an earlier Celtic settlement of New England by sea-faring Celts- references of encounters with these people, who spoke an Irish language are referrenced in some of the Sagas of the Icelanders such as the account of Thorfin Karlesefni- in one excursion in New England, aka Vinland, circa 1001 A.D., two Irish-speaking boys were captured (two of the ancient New England Celts), and they gave the names of their parents and two Irish Kings their people paid tribute to who lived across "the great water" of the Atlantic Ocean- one of their names (off the top of my head- I have no notes for this post, but will for my next post- this post is really just an "announcement" post)- was King Avalldamon.  These two Celtic boys also told the Norsemen that their people built crude stone fortifications and "dens" which sound very much like Stone Chambers to me.  This is documented evidence from the Icelandic Sagas circa 1000 A.D. that Celtic people were already in the New England region and preceded Viking exploration of the area.  And what is more, we have a reference to this Celtic people building in stone- the New England Stone Chambers are an exact match of their counterparts from the ancient western European seaboard region.  

I do not exclude that there were probably Stone Chambers built which represented a Celtic/ Native American hybrid type of stone construction- in fact, I very much get that sense when looking at some of the Stone Chambers.  But, lets be realistic- we have the above-mentioned account of ancient Celtic people building crude stone forms of architecture in ancient New England.  When one goes to King Philip's rock for instance, which is a Wampanoag sacred place, we  are looking at a fortified natural rock den/cave, which is nothing like a Stone Chamber.  The Stone Chambers are Celtic, not Native American.

William B. Goodwin, who wrote "The Ruins of Great Ireland in New England" in 1946 was at that time, the world's pre-eminent scholar on the Icelandic Sagas.  Yet, in today's environment, his research has been disregarded and trashed by so-called "antiquarians", such as the members of NEARA, some of whom are not really antiquarians at all.  In other words, people like William B. Goodwin and Berry Fell should be respected, but instead their findings have become belittled and trashed because it does not fit certain accepted narratives and notions of ancient history, even when the evidence is already "in."  (Some of this evidence that becomes "in" apparently disappears.)  

Vinland went by the names Great Ireland and Albania, among other names.  Today there is still an Albany, upstate New York, the only other region besides New England where the Stone Chambers are present.  One has to wonder why certain groups of colonists named Albany as such in the first place.  Grapes were sacred to Celtic people, as it was the main ingredient in their initiatic drink greal, which later merged with the concept of "the grail" in later Christian times (read "The Wine That Causes Insanity" from the book "Masters of the World" by Robert Charroux.)  SouthEastern New England, the home of the most Stone Chambers, is Vinland, the land of the grapes.  Many native muscat grapes and others grow wild in my area.  The Concord grape was perfected in Concord, MA. in the late nineteenth century.  I enjoy plucking and eating wild grapes off the vine this time of year in Holliston, Milford, etc.  In fact, the Celtic folklore states that the Tuatha de Dannon (ancient cultural initiators of the Celts) brought the first grapes to the European Celts from TirNanOg, the "land of the other world across the western ocean."  The Tuatha de Dannon were survivors from Atlantis.

Also, concerning Stone Walls.  According to the 1890's survey of New England stone walls, there was more stone walls at that time than could go around the circumference of the Earth more than ten times.  Therefore, it is a statistical impossibility that all New England stone walls were built between 1620 and the 1890's.  This is because many New England stone walls, such as the ones that run up granite ledges and into mega-ton boulders, (thus qualifying as megalithic structures in their own right) were built by the ancient New England Celtic people- it stands to reason then, that some of the stone cairns associated with these walls are also ancient Celtic in origin.  

For some reason. the real ancient history of this land has been forgotten.  There are academics and archaeologists who are currently engaged in trying to erase this very important history.  There are people from NEARA for instance who convinced some of the representatives of the local tribes such as the Narragansett that the Stone Chambers were built by their ancestors.  Peter Waksman was one of these people- he is not really an antiquarian in any true sense, but rather, was thinking in terms of conservationism- which is a good idea.  However, the subject has become more befuddled and confused than ever due to this.  It took a long time for a younger researcher such as myself to ascertain the true nature of the ancient Stone Chambers and other ruins.  Therefore, this blog will be herefore known as "Remembering Vinland."