Posted on 05/08/2025 11:22:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Variations on the classic Merlin and King Arthur legends span hundreds, if not thousands, of retellings. Many are documented within handwritten medieval manuscripts dating back over a millenia—but some editions are far rarer than others. For example, less than 40 copies are known to exist of a once-popular sequel series, the Suite Vulgate du Merlin. In 2019, researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered fragments of one more copy in their collections, tucked inside the recycled binding of a wealthy family's property record from the 16th century. But at the time of discovery, the text was impossible to read.
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university's Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), archivists have finally been able to peer inside the obscured texts—without ever needing to physically handle the long-lost pages.
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
“Look! Its RIGHT THERE!”
Do these people not have gloves?
👎
Relative to other New World warblers, it is not well studied.
Anyway, as I had already written and formatted, so I'll name him "Arthur"...
Experts now believe the sections originally belonged to a shortened edition of the tale.
There's *always* a Jewish angle:
Avalon (/ˈævəlɒn/) [note 1] is an island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann. Since then, the island has become a symbol of Arthurian mythology, similar to Arthur's castle of Camelot.
abbreviation = a shortened edition,
the mystery location of the Isle of Avalon [אי אבלון] is in the roshei teivot, meaning the heads of [written] words, from the beginning:
The Shema -- The Daily Declaration of Faith
Deu 6
4. Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
5. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might:
6. And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:
And you shall love...
the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul
את יהוה אלהיך בכל לבבך ובכל נפשך
(see also Deu 10:12; 13:4; 30:6, 10)
and with all your might:
"Further examination revealed it to be part of the Old French Vulgate Merlin sequel, a different and extremely significant Arthurian text," she said.
>>>...and includes Merlin appearing in Arthur's court while disguised as a harpist.
With the sections translated and digitally preserved, the team hopes the same techniques can be applied to other conservation projects, particularly those involving delicate and obscured artifacts.
Obscured artifacts in Old French:
and the spirit of God was hovering. The Throne of Glory was suspended in the air and hovered over the face of the water with the breath of the mouth of the Holy One, blessed be He and with His word, like a dove, which hovers over the nest, acoveter in Old French, to cover, hover over.
(to recline, rest)
The timing of Old French, now appearing at the Gates of Rome, because what's in a name:
One placed in charge: a head, a chief, particularly..
The soul of Mashiach has two dimensions. One is the enlightenment that all of creation will enjoy; and one is that there will be an individual (or a couple) that will master mind and master heart this giant planetary-scale project of coordinating all of humanity into a single, smoothly operating organism, that will run as efficiently as a person's body...
"And the spirit of G-d hovered upon the waters." (Gen. 1:2) Midrash Rabba explains that this "spirit of G-d" hovering upon the waters is actually the "soul of Mashiach," a term that refers to the highest possible G-d awareness/truth awareness that human beings are capable of.
In summary, the content flows from the assertion of the oneness of God's kingship. Thus, in the first portion, there is a command to love God with all one's heart, soul, and might, and to remember and teach these very important words to the children throughout the day.
Pretty sure that’s an image of the document, not the original document itself. Gloves wouldn’t matter for that.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
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Welcome to this weeks video. This week we make a.... remake of a BBC Documentary I saw many years ago, plus add a few more modern bits into the mix. So credit to Professor Aubrey Manning and his doc on ths site. Glastonbury Tor is a fascinating place and one can't help let a few myths, legend and folklore creep into your mind as you scale its stunning hill. With views over the mendips, Dorset, The Somerset Levels, what more to love.How we Misunderstood GLASTONBURY Tor | 11:57
Paul Whitewick | 175K subscribers | 118,842 views | November 10, 2024
I would go around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me.
Bloody peasant!
Avalon is a legendary island in Arthurian mythology, often associated with magic, beauty, and a utopian paradise. It is most famously known as the place where King Arthur was taken to recover from his wounds after the Battle of Camlann, and where his sword, Excalibur, was forged. Avalon is depicted as a mystical, otherworldly realm, sometimes linked to the Celtic Otherworld, and is often shrouded in mist, accessible only by certain individuals or through magical means.We live in a very nice neighborhood, indeed "magic, beauty and a utopian paradise... mystical, otherworldly realm."
Auspicious!
(People might 🤔 be sick of my postings, but I need to document, not win a popularity contest.)
Avalon gets even better because
Avalon [אבלון] is
...a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made...
The sword lore involves it being stuck in a stone.
The Hebrew word for stone is even [אבן]. No need to actually know the letters to see and compare the images, that inside of the letters "אבן" is "לו", thus the word Avalon [אבלון] lit. contains "לו" inside a stone.
Happy to draw this out for any interested readers.
The letters lamed-vav ("לו") spells "to him". It also is the numeral 36 (ל"ו), which holds much mystique in the Jewish World because it relates to the first 3 days of Creation (36 hours of light), linking to the 36 Chanukah candles for the 8-day miracle of lights.
Also, the "lamed vavniks" -- the 36 righteous whose existence keeps the world from falling apart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadikim_Nistarim
But back to the "to him". I've previously posted about the "missing David" in the Strong's entries. Basically,
Strong's Number H1732 matches the Hebrew דָּוִד (dāviḏ), which occurs 1,075 times in 910 verses in the WLC Hebrew.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1732/kjv/wlc/0-1/
Yet set it just to search the "Old Testament", and being a Hebrew word what difference should it make, yet...
KJV Strong's H1732 matches the Hebrew דָּוִד (dāviḏ).
"H1732" occurs 1,076 times in 911 verses in your custom selection ' in 'The Old Testament'' in the KJV.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=H1732&t=KJV&csr=1#s=s_primary_0_1
The "missing David" turns up in the [911th] verse where Jonathan told David he'd be noticed for his seat, being empty that is (inside translators' joke?):
1 Samuel 20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
"David" is not actually in the verse. The KJV does not italiansize his name there, which is the normal way to tip off the reader that a word in the English is not in the Hebrew text.
In the verse, the Hebrew just says "to him" [לו].
Then Jonathan said to David [לו]..
Italiansize it, because you'll find the missing David no. 1076 outside of the Old Testament.
He's the most famous David in the world, a veritable Renaissance ("reborn") Man of stone:
Data sheet
Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date: 1501 - 1504
Collection: SCULPTURE
Technique: Marble
Dimensions: h. 517 cm
Inventory: Inv. Scult. n. 1076
https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it/en/artworks/david-michelangelo/
Like I always say, the weird is the tell. 👍
(It's a Big Dig after all.)
Avalon Train | 3:17
Ed Gerhard - Topic | 812 subscribers | 4,446 views | September 8, 2018
Thanks. Wow, that is a GREAT tune!
I love Gerhard and have him on several playlists. I added that to my “favorite” and “guitar” lists on Spotify. Others on the list are Leo Kottke, William Tyler, Phil Cook, Al Petteway, Franco Morone, Julian Lange, Chris Eldridge, Jesse Cook. I feel like I’m missing a bunch, too.
Gerhard’s “Wild Mountain Thyme” is wonderful..
WMT is an oldie, popular with all those English folk guitarists and such back in the 60s.
https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/102217/versions
Wild Mountain Thyme
And
Shady Grove
I’ve seen Shady Grove performed, not sure by whom, and it’s possible that I just remember an old live recording of its performance. I have seen the late Jean Ritchie, there’s an off chance that I saw her perform it, but it didn’t sound like this 1956 recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDhbMK2FmU
I probably saw Bob Carlin do an instrumental version.
https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1051100
I’m giving up and going to bed. :^) It may have been the “Matty Groves” version.
It is
Boorman had thing for positioning colored gels so that every scene had its own nearly monochromatic atmosphere.
It worked beautifully.
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