Tex, was supposedly composed in 2194 BC, whereas the most recent part, the letter of Hidde Oera Linda, dates to AD 1256. Almost half of the entire book comprises The Book of Adela's Followers, the original text around which the rest grew. It is purported to have been compiled in the 6th century BC from a mixture of contemporary writings and ancient inscriptions. The last two sections of the Oera Linda Book contain a number of lacunae and the book itself breaks off in mid-sentence. It also describes a lost land called Atland (the name given to Atlantis by the 17th-century scholar Olof Rudbeck), which was supposedly submerged in 2194 BC – the same year as 19th-century Dutch and Frisian almanacs, following traditional Biblical chronology, gave for Noah's flood. Sections The Oera Linda Book is divided into six sections, further subdivided into a total of 53 chapters. Letters The Book of Adela's Followers The Writings of Adelbrost and Apollonia The Writings of Frêthorik and Wiljow The Writing of Konerêd Fragments See also Book of Veles, a similar likely-forged document relevant to Slavic mythology Old High German lullaby, an Old High German lullaby mentioning Germanic deities that is also generally held to be a hoax Kensington Runestone, a runestone of supposedly Scandinavian origin found in the United States, considered a hoax by archaeologists and historians Germanic mythology, the historical pre-Christian beliefs of the ancient Germanic peoples Pseudohistory Fakelore References Breuker, Ph.H. "It Friesch Genootschap, it Friesch Jierboeckjen en it Oera Linda Boek. De striid om taalbefoardering tusken 1827 en 1837", De Vrije Fries 60 (1980), 49–65. Vinckers, J. Beckering "De onechtheid van het Oera Linda-Bôk, aangetoond uit de wartaal waarin het is geschreven.", Haarlem, Erven F. Bohn. 1876. Oera Linda Boek External links Oera Linda Boek Original manuscript (scanned facsimile) Oera Linda Book Sandbach's 1876 English translation with Frisian text Thet Oera Linda Bok 1872 books 19th-century manuscripts 19th-century hoaxes Books about Atlantis Catastrophism Esotericism Frisian languages Linguistic hoaxes Pseudohistory Works of unknown authorship