As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The United States from time to time has put a warship upon the waters called the Essex, but most people will not have any idea what the Biblical origin of the name means. For in England, there is Essex, Wessex and Sussex, and those Anglo Saxon names explain little, until one knows that Sex is Sax, as in Saxon. These places were old Israelite Saxon invasion and colonization points in Britain, when the Romans abandoned the isles.
Essex means East Saxon, Wessex means West Saxon and Sussex means South Saxon.
Saxon means Sons of Isaac in Abraham's son.
The Saxons made war in England on the Welsh, and drove out and exterminated them. These Britons were Romanized and servile, and apparently unprepared for what took place. In the north at Northumbria, it seems it required another century for the conquest to take place, as there is not a Norsex so named. In the south, just 14 years after Ælle with his three sons, Kymen, Wlencing and Cissa took to shore in 477 AD in the year of our Lord, at the island Kymenes ora, had driven out the Welsh and taken the Roman strongholds of Regnum and Anderida.
The Welsh annals of Northumbria though speak of Ida coming to rule there in 547. He is named Ida "the flame bearer" and from Forth, which was a postage stamp principality, this Ida fought his way to complete control of the coast, against stubborn guerrilla resistance.
I have featured here from the writings of W.W. Greener a British monk expounding upon the use of gunpowder in England. The mention was of the "lamps" which the children of Israel had. Upon inquiry in this "flame bearer" in Ida, had a firearm which was planted on the ground. It was of iron and fired lead balls.
This is the first recorded incident outside the Bible in the Israelites using some type of flaming charge in war.
It would fit, in being a doomsday weapon, in Ida had little power, but conquerred quickly a stubborn adversary outnumbering him. The legends of the history simply record it "as he came to rule" in Northumbria.
An uneducated people, coming across something that shot flames from it and you died, would be the like of the Latin American Indians fleeing from the Spanish gods in their technology.
In 547 AD Ida came to rule and was named the flame bearer.
You do learn things here always for the first time.
"the pedigree of Ida, King of Northumbria, runs as follows:—"Ida was Eopping, Eoppa was Esing, Esa was Inguing, Ingui Angenwiting, Angenwit Alocing, Aloc Benocing, Benoc Branding, Brand Baldæging, Bældæg Wodening."
Grant Allen. Early Britain / Anglo-Saxon Britain
Nuff said.
agtG
