Subject: Re: more thinking about breitenstein<br/>
Date: Aug 30, 2001 @ 16:53<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-650515935">In a couple of days I will post some (translated into English for the <br/>
benifit of most of you) stuff from some books I have, that both <br/>
unequivocally state that the Breitenstein is still a boundary marker <br/>
between Lorraine (the Bitscherland) and Alsace (&quot;Crooked Alsace&quot;).<br/>
<br/>
I haven&#39;t got time for it right now, but I thought I&#39;d give you <br/>
a &quot;warning&quot; ;-)<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; if the monster &or any of its suspected companions do prove to be <br/>
as alive & <br/>
&gt; working today as peter & i would both like to believe<br/>
&gt; then i think the only remaining question is<br/>
&gt; when did it or they become a boundary demarcation<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; & i realize this is not necessarily the same question as<br/>
&gt; when were they erected<br/>
&gt; for we dont know whether their original purpose was to mark a <br/>
boundary<br/>
&gt; or whether they were only subsequently appropriated for that purpose<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; but leaving that loose end hanging<br/>
&gt; the monster does appear to stand approximately on the traditional <br/>
celtic <br/>
&gt; germanic frontier as described by caesar in the first century bc<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; & i believe both the rocks & the frontier could be far more ancient <br/>
than <br/>
&gt; that<br/>
&gt; tho i would trim my earlier guess of coeval with stonehenge<br/>
&gt;   thus 4 or 5 millennia old<br/>
&gt; back to perhaps only 3 millennia old<br/>
&gt; if druidic is truly the operative word here<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; & the fact that it was so elaborately christianized<br/>
&gt; as one might expect the rock of ages to be<br/>
&gt; a quirk of history perhaps<br/>
&gt; or a cosmic joke<br/>
&gt; or what really<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; m<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
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