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<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);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.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 "History" 2008.05.19 (01) [E]</span><br><br></span><div><span><font face="Courier New">Beste
Ron,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">you
asked:</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
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<div><span><font face="Courier New"><font color="#008080"><font face="Arial">> Doesn't immigration from what are now the
Netherlands figure into this at some point
too?</font><br></font></font></span></div>
</div><div><span><font face="Courier New">From AD 1168 till
1178 there had been an Archbishop <em><strong>Baldwin from Holland</strong></em>
in Bremen- he was the direct follower of <em><strong>Hartwig von
Stade</strong></em>, the last Earl (Markgraf) von Stade, who donated his
'Markgrafschaft' to the Archbisdom of Bremen. Baldwin may have started to
call 'Hollandish' settlers into the region, but I am not sure about this.
Assured knowledge about Dutch settlers dates into the 13th
century.</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#008080" face="Arial">> What
about a possible Frisian element? Erstwhile Frisian-speaking presence is
definitely attested all the way from what is now Belgium to > Land Wursten at
the southern end of the mouth of the Elbe, on the island of Heligoland off the
mouth of the Elbe and then again north of </font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#008080" face="Arial">>
Dithmarschen into the southwest of what is now the Danish part of the Jutland
Peninsula.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
</div><div><span><font face="Courier New">Sorry- but Land
Wursten is situated at the Weser river ;-)!</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Yes- the Frisian
element came very early. Some historians refer to the fact that, after a good
part of the Saxons had left the coastal areas and sailed to Britain (mainly in
the 5th and 6th century), the Frisians used the vacuum and spread along the
whole coast. But for my opinion this did not take place before the 9th/10th
century, ergo <strong>after</strong> Charlemagne had defeated the Saxons.
Charles had made some special contract with the Frisians, so they hadn't
anything to fear from the Francs.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">But except of
Wursten (the name refers to 'Wurth-Friesen', related to E 'wharf', but here
meaning 'dwelling mound') and what now is called Northern Friesland
they came in small numbers and made small settlements, probably arm in arm with
the Saxons from the neighbourhood. I think they merged with the natives
within short time, but possibly left some influence in our regional language
(what hardly can be proven because of the above mentioned later waves of
'Hollandish' settlers).</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Summa summarum: the
people here always felt themselves explicitly to be 'free
Saxons'.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">You mention <font color="#008080">'Büsum' </font>as a possibly Frisian settlement, and you're
probably right with your guess. A village close to my home is named
'Belum' and is referred as 'Bedelem' in ancient time, which shift is
aspected to be typical for Frisian location names. There are some additional
hints that this place could be a very early but small colony of the Frisians.
</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">BTW: The whole
sub-region formerly was called 'De Neddern Landen' ('The Netherlands') and was
situated on both sides of the mouth of the Oste river (a
southern feeder of the Elbe river). The inhabitants were no friends of the
Archbishop of Bremen, too...</font></span></div>
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<div align="left">Allerbest!</div>
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<div align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div>
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<span><font face="Courier New">(PS: Dat
slayt all meist in't Aosen mit sou eyn neyschierigen Keyrl as Di ;-)! Kaomst
knapp noch tou 'n Slaopen bi...)</font></span><br><br><br>