THE LENAPE and the TRADITION of GIANTS

The LENAPE HISTORY

and the

TRADITION of GIANTS

The LENAPE HISTORY and the TRADITION of GIANT are two histories of the same migration event.

The LENAPE meet the GIANTS about the time they crossed the MISSISSIPPI headed east.

They both desscribe ALLEGHENY as the name of a "beautiful" river.

.

The Tradition of GIANTS says,

"From Henry Schoolcraft, noted scholar on the subject, we have this reference to a most antique and mysterious tribe or nation:

The oldest tribe of the United States, of which there is a distinct tradition, were the Alleghans. The term is perpetuated in the principal chain of mountains traversing the country. This tribe, at an antique period, had the seat of their power in the Ohio valley and its confluent streams, which were the sites of their numerous towns and villages. They appear originally to have borne the name of Alli, or Alleg, and hence the names of Talligewi and Allegewi. By adding to the radical of this word the particle hany or ghany, meaning river, they described the principal scene of their residence namely, the Allegheny, or River of the Alleghans, now called Ohio. The word Ohio is of Iroquois origin, and of a far later period; having been bestowed by them after their conquest of the country, in alliance with the Lenapees, or ancient Delawares. (Phi. Trans.) The term was applied to the entire river, from its confluence with the Mississippi, to its origin in the broad spurs of the Alleghanies, in New York and Pennsylvania; and the designation, to its sources, is still continued in use by that people.

.

REIDER T. SHERWIN used Schoolcraft's information as evidence to describe the ALLEGHENY river as the OHIO river.

REIDER T. SHERWIN'S definition of ALLENGHENY

But he took the definition back to OLD NORSE words.  He wrote that the Norse called the river "fraeger vatn," which means, in Old Norse, "excellent River."

.

Shewin knew that "FR" in Norse were slurred consonents that might be heard as "AL" by a hearer who expected different sounds.

He had examples of other words that had a similar transpotation of sound through the centuries."

.

Sp the Tradition of Giants, the Lenape History, and Reider

T. Sherwin appear to start in agreement.

.

Alagheny is the Ohio river.  The name derived from Old Norse words. 

The LENAPE history was created with Old Norse words.