LL-L "History" 2010.03.14 (02) [EN]

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From: Jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2010.03.14 (01) [EN]

 Beste Ron,

you wrote:

Middle German?! For some reason I was assuming that it was Middle Saxon
("Middle Low German") and that that was the reason for which we are
discussing this on Lowlands-L.

And so thought I (and I guess, Hanne as well ;-)!) when I first read the
inscription *"myt wyllen dyn eygen". *I was waiting for special explanations
about the Northern, i.e. Low Saxon origin of the ring.
But going further in the text I learned that it probably was manufactured by
a Southern German (Augsburg) goldsmith who had lived in Venice for a while.
And later we find some passages written in a German dialect which I guess to
be late Middle HIGH German.

Doesn't help very much, I fear! Perhaps someone else will read the book and
bring more light into the dark.

Please also bear in mind that Northwestern Croatia has been having a lot of
contact with both Italy and Austria (as well as Hungarian), and that
Croatian minorities have been present in both Italy and Austria for a long
time.
Might this be interpreted the way that a part of Northern Croatian people
were able and willing to speak and, if educated, to write German instead of
Italianic or its early derivates?

Allerbest!

Jonny Meibohm
Lower Saxony, Germany

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