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Saga America

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I worked with the author of Saga America because I lived nearby one on the sites he discussed, the source for the INYO ZODIAC. Originally, I was quite skeptical, but became convinced that Fell was correct. Besides the recognition of the Zodiac, Fell also found a notation that seemed to refer to the Vernal Equinox. That led to the discovery of the functions of a complete solar observatory. This book is a true landmark in epigraphic research. The good Professor Fell is no longer with us, but this book will help his memory last forever.

Barry Fell's 3 books on European and Mediterreanian peoples exploration/colonization of North America are the best and most important work on this subject I've ever seen. I am trying to find copies of Saga America and Bronze Age America, having purchased America B.C. a few years back. It isn't politically correct writing that he did, but it was all true.

I am sad to see that most of Barry Fell's work is either out of print or going out of print. If you think you have American pre-history "wired", you better think again. This is not pseudo-history; it is the work of a chair of University history department and it is based on well-founded research and documentation. Forget the "Siberian Ice Bridge" and other things that are the distant past and consider the evidence for Libyan sailors on the Mississippi River - and Hebraic script transcriptions in a "prehistoric" cave in Los Lunas, New Mexico - I could just go on and on.... in short - get this before it cannot be had anymore. I am just amazed that such things go out of print....

This is the study of waves of pre-Columbian colonization of the New World from the Old; mostly Libyans, but also Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Iberian Gaelic-speakers, Vikings, and more than I could keep track of; mostly across the Atlantic, but the Libyans were such super astronomers and geometricians that they sailed east across the Indian Ocean, taught navigation to the Polynesians, and colonized the West Coast from the Pacific.

Never heard of any of this before? There's a reason for that: the mainstream story is based on real research, consistent across many disciplines. Fell gets his theory from looking at Native American petroglyphs and squinting until they look kind of like they might be financial tools and mathematics texts written in pre-Islamic Libyan squiggles (plus some Ogham and some furthark), by people who spoke many different languages, and most of them pretty sloppy with their spelling and none of them using vowels. If you can read them, it all becomes obvious.

Yes, Fell was a world-famous Harvard professor--of marine biology. Clearly he doesn't know very much about how economics or navigation actually work, nor the social history of the Roman Empire--nor anthropology neither, obviously. Yes, some of the finds he reports are anomalous and intriguing, but unfortunately the most fascinating and definitive of all have been lost and can't be re-found (but they're out there somewhere and at least they're safe from vandalism this way!).

Fell even edges into real conspiracy theory a bit: "It is apparent that the bishops of Greenland and Vinland did not disclose the extent of their see to the Icelandic bishops," because Rhode Island does not appear on the Skalholt map, and they *must* have known about Rhode Island because of the cathedral they built there at Newport! Sadly, there aren't enough moments like that to make the book actually funny; even sadder, of course, is there are people out there who believe this is real, but I cannot change that in one book review on Amazon.

Saga America is volume 2 of the groundbreaking series by Barry Fell that introduced thousands to possible pre-columbus voyages to America. People opposed to that idea often sling mud at Fell, but he is no fringe writer. He was a respected scholar who earned the support of many other scholars (his critics fail to mention this). As Fell points out, many blantly ignored accounts and artifacts of Vikings right up until ruins were found in Canada. Afterwards, they still clung to "no one before Columbus except a few wayward Vikings." Decades later, the opposition to Fell and others like him is not as great as people see the pre-1492 Americas as an ancient and sophisticated world. Sure, some of the book is dated, but this is still a classic in the field. Maybe not every one of his translations is perfect, but what about the rest? Hopefully someone will reprint Fell's books. See also Vikings in America, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 1421: The Year China Discovered America,America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World, The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America & Columbus Was Last: From 200,000 BC to 1492, A Heretical History of Who Was First.

My mother asked for these rather dated books and I loved how easy they were to find and how quickly they were sent to her...

Look, people, this book is NOT REAL. It's a hoax. Every single word of it is made up, though I must congradulate Dr Fell on imagining so many details. There were no Vikings, Romans, Arabs, or Celts waltzing around the Americas. The closest that it ever came were some Viking expeditions up in Canada. Don't you think you'd see the remains of Roman towns, or buried viking ships, or anything other than some scribbles that, if you squint, can look like Ogham? It's like seeing shapes in the clouds. Dr. Fell is NOT a historian, nor an archeolgist, nor anything related to history. What is he a doctor of? Marine biology. I kid you not.

So stop reading this stuff. The history of the Americas is far too interesting to clutter up with hoaxes like this. If you want to know the real Native American history, go ask them.

In general, there is no good reason to accept Fell's linguistic and epigraphic identifications. See my review of America B.C.