Albion Revisited

A series of articles on Ancient British Christianity

8th  December 2006

 

 

Part 9.  The Kolbrin (cont.)


Further selections from the Kolbrin

 

BRT 2. Selections from The Jesus book. Written by Elfred, husband of Marcella, maid of Ilted. [Did he mean Ilyid?]

 BRT 2:5 Aristolas taught that Ilyid had been one who commanded with the ships of Rome, but was not without ships himself. So it was that when Jesus went down to the Western Sea of the Jews, (which is not the sea of the setting sun,) He being one skilled with His hands, worked on them. Jesus was brawnily built and not one to take money without labour.

 BRT 2:6 Jesus, our Master, Light of our life, was hung on the shameful cross in His 27th year, this being the 1099th year of Britain, in the reign of Tiberius, ruler of the Roman lands to the east. [The chronology is out of phase. Jesus was crucified in His 33rd year]

 BRT 2:7 Within a year, Ilyid and others departed from their homeland shore by ship, and although this was demasted in a heavy storm it made safe haven in Sankel. There, he and his son were joined by several other holy persons. They tarried awhile before crossing to Laidlow, from whence they took a ship to Tarsis.

 BRT 2:8 In the year of Britain 1112, our father came from Rome with others, because of the decrees of Claudius, ruler of all the Romans to the east, seeking refuge beyond the oppression of Roman might where the true light could burn undisturbed. But the circle of Roman might spread even wider, like a thrown fisherman’s net.

 BRT 2:10 Now the daughter of Caradew was Gladys, red-haired, blue-eyed, and slim, who married Pudens, Commander of the Legions, beloved of Paul the martyred in God, who died in the 1130th year of Britain. Lein, son of Caradew, brother of Gladys, being the first Christian in Rome.

 BRT 2:11  In the year of Britain 1127 . . . [here follows a detailed account of the battle under Boadicea].

 BRT 4:1 This is an account of certain Wise Strangers to the sea-girt realm of Britain. Taken from the Books of Britain, and rewritten into the appendices to the Bronzebook.  This being that part safeguarded by Rowland Gasson.

 BRT 4:2 After our Lord died, having been hung on the cross outside the city walls of Jerusalem, Joseph of Abramatha took Mary the mother of Jesus into his home until John could make suitable arrangements.

 BRT 4:3 Aristolas wrote these things in the Sacred Island . . .

 BRT 4:6 Joseph, our father in faith, came across the storm-tossed seas to the place called Balgweith, and from thence to Taishan, where he met the envoy of the king, who was sorely troubled. For the Chief of all Druthin, called Trowtis, was away . . .

 BRT 4:7  When Trowtis returned, he met Joseph at the place called Henmehew (because of the strange tree that grows there.) The Druthin held a feast of welcome in the place called Nematon, which is below the great hill. . . . . Trowtis made an offering of salted barley cakes and gave some to Joseph, called Ilyid by the people here.

 BRT 4:22 Joseph said, “Know this, great king. I am a servant of the Great God of Light. I am sent in order to build a church here where it will serve your people well. I will establish a place of light unto them. I come to teach the perfect commandments. Ask among your own about me, for I am not unknown to them. I have no human teacher from whom I learned the wisdom from whence I got these things. I lived in the light of Christ, but learned tardily. Then I had a message from God Himself, ‘Go, preach to those who dwell at the edge of the earth.’”

  

BRT 5:18 Joseph Idewin and his brave band came to flowering Britain three years after the death of Jesus. He converted Gladys, sister of Caradew, who married a Roman, and her sister Aigra who was the wife of Salog, lord of Karsalog. [Caer Salog = City of Salisbury] After landing, he and his band passed through an avenue of oaks and standing stones. They first built huts against the holy vineyard where the fruits were bitter.

 BRT 5:19 After the saints had gone to their rest, the first church and its surroundings became a wild place, a refuge for wild creatures. Then, as the land remained holy, saints came from Gaul, who restored it, and one was Fairgas the Briton, who had served at this place as a youth. Idewin was buried in a shirt of fine linen which he had worn when burying Jesus, and which was stained with three spots of blood on the chest. He was buried by the two-forked cross. The saints had lived in twelve huts around a never-diminishing well at the foot of the holy hill.

 BRT 5:20 Joseph Idewin was related to Avalek whose kingdom bordered that of Arviragus, through Anna the Unfaithful. He converted Claudia Rufina, the daughter of Caradew, previously called Gladys, who married Pudens, a Roman, and had a daughter Pudentia. In his 28th year Caradew was betrayed to the Romans by Arisia, queen of Bryantis. He married Genuissa, daughter of Claudius, to bind the peace agreement. . . .

 BRT 5:21 Gladys, sister of Caradew, married Aulus Plautius, a Roman Commander. Caradew held an estate in Siluria and he was made warchief when Guiderius, son of Kinbelin, [Cuno-belinus = Cymbeline] was slain by a slingshot near the river Thames. In the year 59 of our Lord the British rose up under Woadica, the horsefighter, who died nearly three years later when Gulgaes became warchief.

 BRT 5:23 I, [Abaris, who wrote this chapter] am one who lived in those brave days.

 

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