7.
PART SEVEN
AUTHOR'S AFTERWORD
I FOUND much difficulty in deciphering
and editing the manuscripts of Olaf
Jansen. However, I have taken the liberty
of reconstructing only a very few expressions,
and in doing this have in no way changed
the spirit or meaning. Otherwise, the
original text has neither been added to
nor taken from.
It is impossible for me to express
my opinion as to the value or reliability
of the wonderful statements made by Olaf
Jansen. The description here given of the
strange lands
and people visited by him, location of
cities, the names and directions of
rivers, and other information herein
combined, conform in every way to
the rough drawings given into my
custody by this ancient Norseman,
which drawings together with the
manuscript it is my intention at some
later date to give to the Smithsonian
Institution, to preserve for the
benefit of those interested in the mysteries
of the "Farthest North"—the frozen
circle of silence. It is certain there
are many things in Vedic literature,
in "Josephus," the "Odyssey," the
"Iliad," Terrien de Lacouperie's
"Early History of Chinese Civilization,"
Flammarion's "Astronomical
Myths," Lenormant's "Beginnings
of History," Hesiod's "Theogony,"
Sir John de Maundeville's writings,
and Sayce's "Records of the Past,"
that, to say the least, are strangely in
harmony with the seemingly incredible
text found in the yellow manuscript of
the old Norseman, Olaf Jansen, and now
for the first time given to the world.
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