LEIBNIZ (LEIBNITZ), G.F. - THE APPEARANCE OF THE THEORY OF NORDIC ISRAELISM OR NORSE ISRAELISM.

Accessiones Historicae quibus potissimum continentur Scriptores Rerum Garmanicarum, & aliorum, hactenus inediti sequentes. Tom. I-II. Tom. I: 1. Chronographus Saxo. 2. Joh. Vito Durani Chronicon. 3. Gesta Trevirorum. 4. Vetus Chronicon Holsatiæ. (Tom. II, Titlepage: Alberici Monachi Trium Fontium Chronicon, è Manuscriptis nunc primum editum à Godofredo Gvilielmo Leibnitio.). 2 Vols.

Hannover, Nicolai Förster, 1700 - Leipzig, Nicolai Förster, 1698. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. (16),315,40,124,119 pp. Tome 2: (12),292,592 pp. First titlepage and Praefatio (16) leaves a bit browned, otherwise clean with only a few scattered brownspots. Some neath marginal notes in 2 contemporary hands.

Second edition of volume one, and first edition of volume two. In the 15 century chronicle "Vetus Chronicon Holsatiae", first printed here by Leibnitz, states, that the Danes were of the Tribe of Dan, while the Jutes the Jews. This is the first announcement of the theory later called Nordic Israelism or Norse Israelism. "It is the belief that Scandinavian peoples, or the Nordic countries (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) descend from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Although there is evidence of such a belief from literature during the Early Modern Period, Nordic Israelism as a movement and ideology only emerged in the latter half of the 19th century among several early proponents of British Israelism."(Wikipedia).

Ravier: 49 (tome I), 44 (Tome II, but Ravier is not clear on this point)

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