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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 22 February 2008 - Volume 05<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="HcCDpe"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.02.22 (04) [E]</span><br><br></span><div><font face="Times New Roman">Is it so universally true that a connection
with "Haag" is nothing to be proud of? How come that in the Nibelungenlied there
is a nobleman named Hagen, and many places, towns, manor houses etc. are
"-hagen" places? Couldn't it also mean that a person was a
land-owner?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"><div class="Ih2E3d"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a>sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</div><div class="Ih2E3d"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>I guess one is tempted to
ask what this says about me and my ancestors. </span></div></font></div></blockquote>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">No, dear Reinhard, even if you had got the
name by blood-line and not by adoption, that would give information only
about 1/128, 1/256 or 1/512 orr even less of your ancestry (the older the name
is, the less), since it is most probably the name of but one of your ancestors
-- probably a man. We would prefer to judge you by *all* your ancestry, all the
nameless women included -- or would *you* prefer to be judged only by what you
*yourself* are? That can be done, and we won't like you the less for it!
:-))</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">Marlou</font></div><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><span></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Etymology</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks, dear Marlou!</span><br><br></span><font face="Times New Roman">We would prefer to judge you by *all* your ancestry, all the
nameless women included -- or would *you* prefer to be judged only by what you
*yourself* are? That can be done, and we won't like you the less for it!
:-))</font><br><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That's lovely. I'll go with whichever of the two makes me look better, please.<br><br>I don't think that Hagen ~ Haan ~ Hahn as a surname carried any negative connotations, and I don't only say this because it's close to home. I believe that originally it referred to a settler by or with a haw (enclosed land). The negative stuff our Luc dredged up surely came later, or so I like to think.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br>
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