Mention of Norway brings visions of the hardy Vikings in their long-ships sailing to the uttermost parts of the earth. A band of Northmen led by Leif Erikson discovered America in 1000 AD., 400 years prior to the appearance of Columbus. In his book Northmen of Adventure, Charles Marshall Smith tells how the Asar, led by Odin, who was later deified by the Norsemen, left their home at Asgard on the east bank of the Don migrated northward through Russia to the shores of the Baltic and finally crossed into Scandinavia. He also points out that the most reliable historian of these early years, Snorri Sturlason of Iceland, informs us that these Asar people were fair-headed, blue-eyed and big-bodied, a strong and dominant race mentally and physically.

Students of Israel Identity will note the similarity between Asgard and Arsareth where the Ten Tribes of Israel were last heard of after throwing off the Assyrian yoke. Another point of interest is that one of the signs of Nordic culture was the perforated battle-axe which were the handiwork of the Northmen of Scandinavia and the heroes who fought at Troy. Students of Israel Identity will also remember that Brutus the Trojan, who laid the foundations of the City of London, was a great-grandson of Zarah, son of Judah.

Tradition fairly well founded, tells of a Benjamite migration fleeing from the power of Rome to beyond the boundary of the empire, making its way to Scandinavia and settling in Norway. There they founded the Viking strain. From that point history is clear enough. They settled in the Orkneys and in the Shetlands. They traversed the coasts of Britain and North Europe as the Vikings. Under their great leader Rollo, they went into France, making themselves so formidable that the King of France made a treaty with them and gave them Normandy as a place to dwell. In the eleventh century under Roger the Great, the Normans invaded Italy and conquered and settled in South Italy and Sicily. In 1066 under William, the Normans came to Britain and established sovereignty.

About the middle of the present millennium Bretons and Normans together settled in lower Canada and are the French-Canadians of today. They are not Latin; they are Celtic and Norman. They are the same people as the Cornish and Welsh, the Highland Scotch and the Northern Irish and the Normans in Britain today. So Anglo-Saxon Canada and French Canada -- so called, are “sib to the marrow” as John Buchan and other Celtic writers would say; that is, they are of the same race!

What the Normans have done and what they are in Britain, in the Overseas Dominions, in the British Colonies and in the United States of America is well known to all. So we open our biological map and see that Benjamite, Norwegian, Norman, the French Canadian and the British -- in fact all the Celto-Saxon peoples are of one kindred and of one blood (the children of Jacob). So we greet Normans among the people of Israel and make note of the fact that two Lions of Judah stand before the Parliament House of Norway and statues of wolves can be found throughout the country.

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