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From: "~Ford~" <>
Subject: Re: [Gen-Ancient] Georgia & the Caucasus - Garden of Eden?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:46:56 -0500
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From: "Francisco Antonio Doria" <>
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Sent: Sunday, 18 April, 2004 06:36
Subject: RE: [Gen-Ancient] Georgia & the Caucasus - Garden of Eden? [Was:
Edessa, Judea, and Armenia]


>
> On the Armenian connexion in Spain and Portugal:
>
> There is an old legend that says that Dom Mendo Alam
> [Lord Hermengild of the Alans] in the 11th century
> raped an Armenian princess who was doing a pilgrimage
> to Santiago de Compostella [Compostella derives from
> compostum, garbage]. That was in the monastery of
> Castro de Avelãs.
>
> I at first thought that this legend had to do with
> very early migrations from the far East to Portugal.


I had never heard of this thesis. Why the far East?


> Now I think that it reflects the origins of
> Ardabasto/Artavazd who sired several of the late
> Visigothic kings, and from whom the 9th century Counts
> of Coimbra are very likely descended, including
> Hermengild [Mendo] Guterres, 878. But perhaps there
> was some kind of conflation of both memories...
>
> fa

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