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Erling
Haagensen & Henry Lincoln.
The Templars' Secret Island: The
Knights,
the Priest and the Treasure.
London: Cassell &
Co., 2002.
xi,
194pp.
Paperback ISBN
1841881902.
Publisher's
recommended price £12.99
The
Templars'
Secret Island describes the intriguing links between mediaeval
Scandinavia,
France and Jerusalem. How men of influence such as Bernard of
Clairvaux,
the Templar Grand Master Bertrand de Blanchfort and a Danish
bishop
all worked together in the twelfth century to preserve a fantastic
secret.
The trail has spanned Europe and has led as far as ancient Palestine. A
further twist came when the authors found that in 1911 a forgotten
Swedish-led
expedition had burrowed beneath the City of David, echoing the
activities
of the fabled Knights Templar, almost eight hundred years earlier. What
that expedition unearthed forms a bridge to the island two thousand
miles
away.
Bornholm
is a
tiny island in the Baltic Sea barely twenty miles by ten. Its fifteen
extraordinary
mediaeval churches and many hundreds of standing stones mark the island
out as a sacred site since remote antiquity. These ancient markers -
and
especially the churches - demonstrate a brilliant and unexpected skill
in land surveying, geometry and mathematics.
The
authors' discoveries
have also led to a link with the village of Rennes-le-Château - a
place with its own enigmatic mysteries - and this book reveals how
those
two specks upon the surface of the earth are tied indissolubly
together.
They both appear to have been touched by the hands of master builders
who
shared a common body of knowledge - as well as a common desire to find
secret hiding places for their treasures.
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