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20.12.11

Foreword for FROZEN TRAIL to MERICA



The Norse in Greenland “vanished” between the years of 1340 and 1410. 


Where did they go?

At least eighteen American tribes: the Leni Lenape (Delaware), Christinaux, Asslenipolls, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Arapaho,  Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Miami, Shawnee, Nanticoke, Conoy, Mahicam, Ojibwa, Abenakis, Wapanaki, and Wapamnaog, all have traditions of their ancestors coming to Northeast America by crossing over a salty sea in the East.

Where did they come from?

In 1836 a white man, Rafinesque, published The American Nations, a book about American people before Columbus. The book contained the Walam Olum, which is a history of the Leni Lenape told by oral stanzas keyed to pictographs. The Walam Olum, chapter 3, shows people walking across ice to a new land.

Is the Walam Olum a hoax?

The Frozen Trail focuses on the three questions above. The book is written in narration to give human scale to an incredible feat that appears beyond man’s ability. Some of the events actually occurred as written. Conjectural prose adds the unknown details of several events. Most characters are fictional, but under the same circumstances the actions of people would have been similar.

Maps are included to provide a scale of the panorama of places. A genealogy is included to provide an understanding of the relationships of people. The footnotes are keywords. The Factual Fiction appendix contains relevant information to the story under the heading indicated by the keywords.

Come. Walk The Frozen Trail seeking answers.

 Is the Walam Olum a real history?

Did the ancestors of the eighteen tribes really come across an eastern salty sea?

Did the Norse Greenland people really vanish?

TABLE OF CONTENTS


[As much as possible the Frozen Trail to Merica was written to tell the story of the twenty stanzas represented by the twenty pictographs in chapter three of the Maalan Aarum.  The plot was written by a man who was sitting in the woods of Canada 660 years ago.


The stanzas in blue have been deciphered.  Those in black are the result of the Moravians priests who tried, in 1820, to understand what the Lenape man was saying.]

     MAALAN AARUM
When the waves were calm
in the land they left,
the decent people
lived together there
in strong hollow houses
with thick roofs


WHERE SHALL WE GO? 
Floating up the streams
in their canoes,
our fathers were rich.
They were in the light
when they were at these Islands.

WILL YOU GO WITH US? 
"Head Beaver and Big Bird
said 'Let us go to Akomen'"

ARE YOU READY TO GO?
All say they will go along,
All who are free to go.

  The BISHOP'S GAMBIT 
Those of the north agreed.
Those of the east agreed.
Over the waters
Over the frozen sea
They went to enjoy it

LEAVING HOME 
On the wonderful slippery water,
On the stone hard water, all went
On the great tidal sea,
Over the [puckered pack ice]

The MOB 
[I tell you it was a big mob]
In the darkness,
all in one darkness
To Akomen, to the [west],
In the darkness
They walk and walk,
all of them





The MEN 
The men from the north,
the east, the south,
The eagle clan, the beaver clan
the wolf clan,
The best men, the rich men,
the head men
Those with wives,
Those with daughters,
Those with dogs
EVERGREEN
They all come.
They tarry at the land
Of the spruce pines,
Those from the east
Some with hesitation.
Esteeming highly their
Old home at the mound land

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