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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);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "History" 2008.02.29 (07) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><font size="3">> From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be" target="_blank">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span><br>
> Subject:
</font><font size="3">LL-L "History"
2008.02.28 (01) [E]<br></font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">>> I'm still packing out after my move from the Antwerp
to the Brussels area.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">>> If I happen to find more, I will post it in the
coming days.</font></div>
<div>> Here is something about Bruges</div>
<div>> <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/brug1.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/brug1.jpg</a></div>
<div>> <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/brug2.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/brug2.jpg</a></div>
<div>> scanned from pp ...</div>
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<div><font size="4">1 - Brugge</font></div>
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<div>I found an other sketch of the very same building on p. 77 in:</div>
<div>Valentin Vermeersch e.a. "<strong>Brugge</strong>"</div>
<div>2002 Mercatorfonds</div>
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<div>I scanned both pages 76 and 77 (they are a bit lager than my scanner, sorry
for the quality).</div>
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<div>p. 76 <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/brug3.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/brug3.jpg</a></div>
<div>The left column gives some history of the Hanze in Brugges</div>
<div>The 2d column, lower part, describes the preceeding building and the
scetched new Hanze building</div>
<div>The 3d column lower part: caption for the scetch of the building</div>
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<div>p. 77 <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/brug4.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/brug4.jpg</a></div>
<div>the scetch is at the top right</div>
<div>the left column deals with the word "<strong>Oosterlingen</strong>"</div>
<div>the right with the etymology of "<strong>beurs - bourse</strong>"</div>
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<div>Since the connection with the see, the "Zwin", was sanding,
<strong>Brugge</strong> lost its see-harbour status. <strong>Damme</strong>,
midway to the see toke over for a while (finally Antwerp would come in the
picture).</div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="4">2 - Damme</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div>"Dit is West-Vlaanderen", </div>
<div>St Andries, Flandria, 1959 in 3 vol</div>
<div>describes all West-Flemish municipalities.</div>
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<div><strong>Damme</strong> is dealt with vol 1, p. 301-309</div>
<div>quote p. 306</div>
<div><font size="3">"In <strong>1240</strong> stichtten de steden van de
<strong>Hanza </strong>een faktorij te Damme."</font></div>
<div>no precision about the exact place.</div>
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<div>Is it a coïncidence that in Flemish versions "<strong>Tijl
Uilenspiegel</strong>" lived in
<strong>Damme</strong>?</div></font></div></div></div></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">quote p. 307</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">"... Maar ook in Vlaanderen was Uilenspiegel sinds lang
gekend. Een bewijs ervan kan men zien in de eigenaardige verwarring waartoe de
grafsteen van Jakob van Maerlant in de kerk van Damme aanleiding gaf. Van Male
schrijft in het begin van de achttiende eeuw "" dat alzoo de lessenaar, die vóór
Maerlant op zijn lessenaar [??] stond afgebeeld niet duidelijk meer was, men
dien voor een spiegel aanzag, en vermits er van boven een uil staet, dacht het
volk dat Uilenspiegel daar begraven was."". Naar de overlevering werd het een
ware toeloop naar het vermoede graf, zodat de pastoor een steen liet omkeren.
Toch blijft de volksoverlevering volhouden dat Tijl onder de toren begraven
ligt."</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Actually this all preceedes De Coster's more modern version of
"Tijl Uilenspiegel" in Damme.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4">Web:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.brugge.be/" target="_blank">http://www.brugge.be</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.damme.be/" target="_blank">http://www.damme.be</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger<br><br></font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">