After "Horissamadaga" and "Marahanni", now 17th cen record of nearby "Tomb of Sheikh Seide the saint"
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:48 pm
Apparently "Horissamadaga" isn't the only place that underwent a name change, going by "Barudadda" today near Eritrea-Djibouti-Ethio border
So did Marhabout Sheekh Seide, or the "Tomb of saint Sh Seide" in nearby Masawa, Eritrea called today "Green Island" or colloquially "Sheikh Said."
In 1771, James Bruce in hs famous travel identified it as "Sheikh Seide" and as a tomb. The spelling is important as a phonetic record because in his 5 part series, James Bruce distinguishes very clearly the phonetic sound of "AYD" and "EDDE" and spells them accordingly in many places.
This plus the historical evidence of it being a Saint's tomb, hardly reflected in modern information, plus in the same vicinity as where maps from that era label nearby locations as "Marahanni, Marehan stream, and Horissamadaga" is incredibly important information in the attempts to retrace our past and remove some of the haze
1771



So did Marhabout Sheekh Seide, or the "Tomb of saint Sh Seide" in nearby Masawa, Eritrea called today "Green Island" or colloquially "Sheikh Said."
In 1771, James Bruce in hs famous travel identified it as "Sheikh Seide" and as a tomb. The spelling is important as a phonetic record because in his 5 part series, James Bruce distinguishes very clearly the phonetic sound of "AYD" and "EDDE" and spells them accordingly in many places.
This plus the historical evidence of it being a Saint's tomb, hardly reflected in modern information, plus in the same vicinity as where maps from that era label nearby locations as "Marahanni, Marehan stream, and Horissamadaga" is incredibly important information in the attempts to retrace our past and remove some of the haze
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