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266 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: Anglo-Saxon Myths and the Origin of Fairies

The Symbolic World

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The Salter of the Quatrains

There was a huge treasury of these pseudopigroful texts, usually translated first into Latin and then into old Irish that were kept in these Irish monasteries. For instance, there is an old Irish called the Salter-Narrain, probably said that wrong because it's old Irish. Most of the manuscripts they had were destroyed by Vikings during the Viking Age. There are two or three main theories of what fairies come from: They are unwashed children of Eve, depending on whether God or Archangel Michael blesses them.

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