The Mists of Time Only those individuals who stood in the gap between the pre-written and the writen languages might claim that their genealogy and history recollections were truely enscribed from "the source". And even so, it might be a cause for debate between the "wise ones", the memory masters, the learned historians of those pre-written civilizations -- as encountered similarly throughout "written" Ireland. Thus, the verbal traditions, or missing writings, of the former earliest ages, some of which may have been passed on in verbal or written form, may have eventually been initially writen down, copied, or summarized, by scribes or poetic license structures or mnemonics. In modern times, scholars use the term pre-historic if it is NOT documented in found or dated writings. In similar circles of anaylitic theories, it seems that most researchers generally agree on a "known" or "accepted history" beginning with the year of 776 B.C., the first Olympiad in Greece. Anything older they call legendary, mythic, or speculative, folk-tales. Many cultures, of course, reference timetables much further back, even per their surviving written claims. In Ireland, many antiquarians use the gauge of the historian Tigernach (circa 1000 A.D.) who saw "acceptable" the chronology of Erinn after 300 B.C. These memories or lost writings may also be termed proto-historic. Others, more conservative, prefer 200 to 300 A.D., or the early Christian era, as a more verifyable place to start. =welcome>about>help> back(to"start")>VerbalBeginnings>NEXT

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