Okke my Son, These books must you guard with body and soul.¹
They encompass the history of all of us folk and of all of our forbears.
Last year, I saved them from a flood as well as thee and thy mother.
However, they had become wet; thusly they went rotten afterwards.
In order not to lose them, I transcribed them on foreign paper. ⁵
So, wherever thou inheritest them, must thou also copy them.
Thy children likewise so that they may never come away.
Written at Liuwert, the threethousand, fourhundred and nine and fortieth year after Atland sank.
That is, after the Christian reckoning, the twelvehundred six and fiftieth year.
Hiddo, surnamed Oera Linda- Watch!¹⁰