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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 May 2008 - Volume 03<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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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);">Mark Dreyer</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</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 "Etymology" 2008.05.21 (01) [E/German]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<div><font size="2">Dear All:</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Subject History</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">(Ron, this is far from 'Lowlands' matter, so if you
see fit please nix it, but I am leaning on the broad knowledge-base of our
Lowlanders.)</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">I'm looking up information about a diminutive race
of people in the Basque country dating to as recently as our Christian era.
Reputedly they were of extremely slight stature, fair with very dark hair &
eyes, & for a last distinguishing feature, had no lobes to their ears. It
seems they provoked the hostility of the Basques themselves, to the extent that
they obtained a Papal Injunction against this folk, prohibiting them from
trying to associate with men of normal stature, & compelling them to live in
their own communities, worship separately, & show their 'caste' by wearing
an arrowmark embroidered on their garments. I was lured to the impression that
they have by this time acquired the aura of a faery folk, rather more mythical
than actual.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Quite beside the point, Ruth & I are friendly
with an ethnic Portuguese family, going by the name 'de Vasconselos', which
seems to me to be a dead giveaway right there.</font> T<font size="2">he entire family, man & wife, son & daughter have long straight
ebony hair (the females), eyes of such deep blue they are almost black, &
very fair complexions. They all stand about 1,5m (for Americans, about 5
foot tall) in their bare feet, & for the last point of note have indeed
no earlobes whatsoever. They apparently know nothing at all about this tale
I have just told you.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">They have not the least bit of resemblance, in
features or in build to the Basques I have met, & I mentioned the point of
earlobes to a Basque & his wife on Kibbutz Ulpan in Israel, & the man
said, pointing to his wife's adornments, "Why do you suppose our mothers
have their daughters' ears pierced since almost before toddlers stage - to show
they have earlobes." So it appeared.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">By the way, leaning into my anthropological
interests, the daughter Berengaira & for all I know her mother too knows far
more than a good girl should about the 'Magna Mater' & I am NOT referring to
'Wicca'.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Ron would probably prefer you to respond
privately.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Yrs,</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Mark.</font></div></div>
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