The writings of Konered on Purity of Language Schools and Friendship

(Here has the recorder, Heddo oera Linda turned one leaf too many, and thereby leaped over two pages.) ¹

His wife, said he who had been maid at Texland, had thence received many records, which are not written in the book of the Adelings.
From these writings had Gosa included one in her last will, which must be made open by the eldest maid, Alberthe, as soon as Friso was dead.

Here is the Writing with Gosa’s advice

When Wralda gave child to the mothers of the human race, then laid he speech upon all tongues and upon all lips.
This gift had Wralda given to the people, so that they might make understandable to each other, what one must avoid and what one must seek in order to find happiness and to keep it in all eternity.⁵
Wralda is wise and good and all far-seeing.

Afterwards he now wist, that happiness and bliss must flee from earth, if evil may deceive virtue, so has he bound a justifying characteristic fast to the speech.
This characteristic is laid therein that one may therewith tell no lies, nor speak deceptive words without stammering or blushing, whereby one can at once recognise the evil of the heart.

After our language was thus dedicated to joy and bliss, and thus guarded against the bad inclinations, therefore is it with all right called god’s speech (the speech of good), and all those who hold it in honour, have honour thence.

Then what happened.¹⁰
As soon as there emerged deception among our half-sisters and half-brothers, who pose themselves as god’s servants, is that become otherwise.

The deceptive priests and the badnatured princes, who always conspired together, would live according to whim and do without god’s laws.
In their wickedness went they hence and have created other languages, so that they might speak secretly in the presence of all others, of evil things and all unworthy things, without that either stammering might betray them or blushing defile their countenance.
But what is borne out.
Even as blithely as the seed of good vegetables arise out from under the ground, which are openly sown by good people in the bright day, even as blithely brings time the harmful plants to the light, which are sown by evil people in secret and by darkness.¹⁵

The lewd maidens and unmanly boys, who whored with the foul priests and princes, allured their lovers to the new speech, thereby are they come forth among the nations, so that they have gladly forgotten god’s speech.
Wilt thou now wit what is become thereof.

Now neither stammering nor countenance betray their evil designs, now is virtue fled fromoutof their midst, wisdom has followed and freedom is gone with them, harmony is nowhere to be found and strife has taken its place, love is flown and whoredom sits with envy at the table, and where earlier justice reigned, rules now the sword.

All are become slaves, the people of their masters, the masters of their envy, evil lust and greed.
Had they now invented but one speech, then would it be yet possible that it might have gone a little well.²⁰
But they have devised as many languages as there are states.

Thereby may one folk understand the other folk even as little as the cow understands the dog and the wolf understands the sheep.
This might the seamen attest.
Though thence is it now come away, that all slave folks regard each other as other (foreign) people, and that is as punishment for their unreasoning and audacity, to have to make war on and fight one another until all are destroyed.

Here is now my advice.²⁵
Art thou so desirous that thou wilt alone inherit the earth, thus aughtest thou never more to let no other speech come over thy lips than god’s speech, and that aughtest thou to use, until thine own speech remains free of outland-ish sounds.

Wilt thou that some of Lyda’s children and of Finda’s abide, so do thou even likewise.
The speech of the East Skenlanders is degenerated through the foul Magyars;
the speech of the Celtic followers is corrupted by the filthy Gauls.

Now are we so generous as to take the Hellenia followers again into our midst, but I have reservations and am sorely worried, that they shall repay our generosity with the degeneracy of our pure speech.³⁰

Much have we withdrawn, but of all the burghs, which through bad times are overwhelmed, has Earth kept Fryasburgh unharmed;
also may I thereby report that Frya’s or god’s speech is even kept unharmed here.

Here at Texland must one thus found schools, of all states which hold with the old morals, must young folk be sent hence, after which might those who were educated there help the others who abide at home.
If the other folk buy iron wares from thee and with thee speak and bargain so must they return to god’s speech.

If they learn god’s speech, so shall the words being free and right come into them, in their brain shall it then begin to glimmer and glare so that all turns to flame.³⁵
This flame shall rend all bad princes asunder and all hypocritical and filthy priests.

The near and foreign emissaries had pleasure from that writing though there came no schools.

Schools and Friendship

Then founded Adel himself schools, after him did the other princes likewise.
Yearly went Adel and Ifka to observe the schools.⁴⁰
Found they among the natives happy ones who bore each other friendship, so let both great joy be shown.

Had some of the blessed sworn each other friendship, so let they all people come to one another, with great stateliness let they their names be written in a book, through which, the book is called the book of friendship, after that was a festival held.

All these practices were done in order to tie the separated branches of Frya’s stem back together.
But the maids who were envious of Adel and Ifka said, that he did it for naught else than for a good reputation and gradually to rule over another’s state.