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Atland
_Atland _n : details of Atland or The "Other [2]Atlantis" as it is
sometimes called can be found in the mysterious _Oera Linda_ Book.
This book contains details which almost attempt to re-write history.
It speaks of a northern continent called Atland which although totally
lost like [3]Atlantis still differs considerably.  Atland was
supposedly a semi-circular mass situated off the Netherlands' Frisian
coast.  the climate was allegedly subtropical and its inhabitants
highly contented up until 2193 BC when a great catastrophe destroyed
the area, but not all of the inhabitants.  The people who survived
supposedly went on to found some of the world's most significant
civilisations including the Egyptians, Greeks and Indians.  There is
even suggestion that Britain was once used by the Atlanders as a penal
colony.  Attention was first drawn to Atland when a Frisian
antiquarian called Cornelius Over de Linden (i.e. _Oera Linda_) took a
manuscript to the Provincial Library of Leeuwarden in Friesland.  Here
it was examined by a Dr. E. Verwijs who was a librarian there.
Although Dr. Verwijs was keen to publish the1256 manuscript which was
written on cotton paper using iron-free black ink and copied from a
previous version; the Frisian society dismissed the whole thing as a
hoax.  Eventually it was published with the original script, alongside
an English version by William R. Sandbach which was in turn derived
from a Dutch translation, by J.O. Ottema of the Frisian.  The
publisher was Trubner & Co based in London.  Historians were highly
sceptical and merely pondered about who had produced the hoax,
Cornelius _Oera Linda_, Verwijs or both.
Later attention was briefly drawn to the manuscript again via two
books by Robert J. Scrutton, namely, _The other Atlantis_ and _The
secrets of Atland_.  Generally the Atland version of history being so
radically different to that of orthodox history, failed even to
impress the adherents of Immanuel Velikovsky's individual but well
researched views of human history as seen in the work Worlds in
Collision. It is still generally accepted as a hoax, but who knows.
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