<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 24 April 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">
wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "History"
2007.05.05 (02) [E]</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Jonny Meibohm <<a href="mailto:altkehdinger@freenet.de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
altkehdinger@freenet.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "History"</span><br><br>
<div><span><font face="Courier">Beste Lowlanners,</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">some days ago I read a book dealing with the history of the Normans settling in the French Normandy.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">One interesting fact I dealt with since a couple of years I became reminded at again.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">en. wikipedia says it better than I could:</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier"><u>quote</u></font></span></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff">After a generation or two, the Normans were generally indistinguishable from their French neighbours.</font></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier"><u>unquote</u></font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">From Rollo, the famous Viking (and
ancestor of William the Conqueror) who commanded the last fight against
the French in 911 till the Battle of Hastings- just ca. 150 years!</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">They also didn't leave much in Normandy's place names, perhaps <em>Cherbourg</em> and <em>Le Havre</em> could be of Scandinavian origin.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">fr. wikipedia (about <em>Cherbourg</em>):</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier"><u>quote</u></font></span></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff"><em>Carusburg</em> signifierait en scandinave « forteresse des marais », de <i>kjars</i> (marais) et de <i>borg</i> (château, ville fortifiée), issu du latin <i>burgum</i>.</font></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier"><u>unquote</u></font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">(BTW: <em>burgum </em>of course is of Germanic origin, not Latin! Perhaps the prefix <em>cher </em>also could be cognate with E: <em>shore</em>, G: <em>Schaere, </em>and in LS we still have the word
<em>schaar</em>, meaning <em>'close to the shore'</em>.)</font></span></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier">Allerbest!</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier">Jonny Meibohm</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left">I thought there were at least a few -bec and -torpe placenames in Normandy. I'll have to search Google Maps.</div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
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<div align="left">Paul Finlow-Bates</div></span><br>