In 720 BC the Assyrians invaded Samaria ie North Israel and carried the Ten Tribes away far to the Caspian Sea area and immigrated various pagan tribes that became the Samaritans one woman of who was surprised that Jesus would ask her to give him a drink of water.
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The first tribe to leave Israel ahead of the Assyrians was Dan who eventually reached and settled Denmark. Centuries passed before the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh arrived. Later as the Danes they invaded my own area leaving waymarks such as Danes Dyke - a great defensive ditch .
Satan's Wikipedia compleetly confuses the origin of the Vikings and suggest they WENT to the Mediterranean when they actually CAME from there! Vikings - Wikipedia
Here are a list of Danish words I still mostly use though modern tv and radio listening has reduced their use. The stream 50 yards away is the beck, and I can hear the bairns laiking in't schooil playground in lunchtime breaks. We like to drive into the hills of the dales and along the little narrow ghills at weekends. If shocked we say we are flayed't dearth.
Words and Phrases:
In I Kings 9:26 we see that King Solomon built a “navy of ships.” Moreover, the passage describes a joint trade expedition from a Red Sea port of Israelite ships manned by both Israelite and Phoenician sailors. “And Hiram sent with the [fleet] his servants, shipmen who had knowledge of the sea with the servants of Solomon” (verse 27). This expedition, which went to Ophir and brought back gold, was the first of many joint maritime trade expeditions between Israel and the Phoenicians. In fact, a fleet of the “ships of Tarshish”—an Iberian seaport city along the western coast of Spain or Portugal—manned by Phoenician and Israelite sailors made a worldwide voyage every three years, bringing back an assortment of exotic cargo (II Chron. 9:21).
Our British poem Cargoes was commonly taught at school in my younger days but I'm not sure if it is nowadays and it includes imagery from 11 Chronicles.
Chapter Nine - The Tribe of Dan—Trailblazing Pioneer of Israel
Book: America & Britain - Two Nations that Changed the World
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The first tribe to leave Israel ahead of the Assyrians was Dan who eventually reached and settled Denmark. Centuries passed before the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh arrived. Later as the Danes they invaded my own area leaving waymarks such as Danes Dyke - a great defensive ditch .
Satan's Wikipedia compleetly confuses the origin of the Vikings and suggest they WENT to the Mediterranean when they actually CAME from there! Vikings - Wikipedia
Here are a list of Danish words I still mostly use though modern tv and radio listening has reduced their use. The stream 50 yards away is the beck, and I can hear the bairns laiking in't schooil playground in lunchtime breaks. We like to drive into the hills of the dales and along the little narrow ghills at weekends. If shocked we say we are flayed't dearth.
Words and Phrases:
- Bairn: Meaning "child," derived from the Old Norse word "barn".
- Beck: Meaning "stream or brook," from the Old Norse "bækk".
- Laik: Meaning "to play," from the Old Norse "leika".
- Laithe: Meaning "barn," from the Old Norse "hlatha".
- Dale: Meaning "valley," from the Old Norse "dal".
- Fell: Meaning "mountain," from the Old Norse "fell".
- Foss: Meaning "waterfall," from the Old Norse "foss".
- Gill/Ghyll: Meaning "narrow valley or ravine," from the Old Norse "gjöll".
- Lathe: Meaning "barn", derived from the Old Norse word "hlatha".
- Ley: Meaning "scythe", derived from the Old Norse word "le".
- Flayin kreeaks: Meaning "frightening crows", derived from the Old Norse word "flaja krage".
- Chuffin' \'Eck: Meaning "chuffing lovely", "good, great, life is good!".
- Sithee/Sithi: Meaning "goodbye, see you later", contraction of "See Thee".
- Ta: Meaning "thank you".
- Mun: Meaning "must, will, shall".
In I Kings 9:26 we see that King Solomon built a “navy of ships.” Moreover, the passage describes a joint trade expedition from a Red Sea port of Israelite ships manned by both Israelite and Phoenician sailors. “And Hiram sent with the [fleet] his servants, shipmen who had knowledge of the sea with the servants of Solomon” (verse 27). This expedition, which went to Ophir and brought back gold, was the first of many joint maritime trade expeditions between Israel and the Phoenicians. In fact, a fleet of the “ships of Tarshish”—an Iberian seaport city along the western coast of Spain or Portugal—manned by Phoenician and Israelite sailors made a worldwide voyage every three years, bringing back an assortment of exotic cargo (II Chron. 9:21).
Our British poem Cargoes was commonly taught at school in my younger days but I'm not sure if it is nowadays and it includes imagery from 11 Chronicles.
