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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);">Marcus Buck</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org">list@marcusbuck.org</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 "Culture" 2008.06.26 (06) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> <mailto:</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Marcus, how about writing a piece about Low Saxon Faslom for the new
"Traditions" presentation? I did not grow up with it and wonder if it
belongs mainly to Roman Catholic communities. I take it the name
/Falsom/ is related to /Fastelavend/.<br>
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Yes, Faslom is a form (what do you call "verschliffen" in English?) of
Fastelavend. It is not a catholic festival. Contrary, I believe it is
better described as the Lutheran counterpart of the catholic
Karneval/Fasnacht/Fasching. Its epicenter in modern times is South of
Hamburg in the Lüneburg Heath with offshoots into some other regions,
among them my home area. But historically it was spread in a wider
region (although I don't know whether the customs connected to Faslom
were the same in all regions). There are some villages in my region
still having Faslom, but sadly my own village has lost it (or never had
it? I don't know. I don't know any accounts of Faslom here. Perhaps the
village wasn't big enough...). So I can report second hand only. I
don't think, that would make a good report.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
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Marcus Buck</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Culture" 2008.06.26 (06) [E]<br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
From: jonny <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" target="_blank">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <mailto:</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" target="_blank">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
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Subject: LL-L "Culture" 2008.06.26 (01) [E/LS]<br>
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Beste Marcus,<br>
at first: another excellent posting of yours! Worth to give a critical answer...!<br>
You wrote:<br>
*Back to the Northern identity: The Northern identity manifests in
memes like "Fischköppe" (Northerners being called, but also calling
themselves "fish heads"), or a "Rock attitude" (the Rocker subculture
and Heavy Metal are more widespread in Northern Germany than in the
south of Germany, as far as I could observe this). In metal and Rock
Northern Germany has much in common with Scandinavia. They (or "We")
even identify them/our-selves with the Vikings. Or think of Hip Hop
bands like Fettes Brot or Fischmob performing songs in Low Saxon. Like
the song "Nordisch by nature". Northern identity pure. The band
Torfrock even combines Viking rock and Low Saxon. This Northern
identity is my hope (actually my only hope) for the future of Low
Saxon.*<br>
** 'Northern idendity' and 'Low Saxon' are different things, as well as
Hip Hop and Metal (the two of them I never would write within one
single sentence *s*).<br>
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I didn't want to say, that Northern identity and Low Saxon are closely
connected. But Low Saxon is one aspect of the Northern identity
(Northern means Northern German, that I mentioned the "Vikings" didn't
mean I wanted to extend it to Scandinavia, although some sympathy to
Scandinavia is another aspect of this special identity). Of course are
Metal, Rock and Hip Hop different subcultures, but they are to some
degree aspects of the identity. The fraction of "Northern identity
carriers" speaking Low Saxon will not be significantly higher than in
the general society, but if you can establish the equation "Low Saxon =
Nordish" carriers of the identity will be more eager to use (some) Low
Saxon than others, cause they try to be Nordish, if they feel Nordish
by identity (just like carriers of Metal culture accept Middle High
German music as cool, cause it is part of their subculture).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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There are dozens of Low Saxons bands in the coastal regions, but I
don't know any (not even one single) in Eastfalia or Brandenburg. The
difference does not correlate to the speaker numbers. There should be
at least some bands in more Southern Saxon regions, if it were only the
number of people. No. The big difference is identity. Low Saxon is
"cool" in the north (at least to some degree), but in the south Low
Saxon is not cool. They are even proud to have lost their ancestral
language ("In Hannover we speak the best and purest High German."). Or
if you don't believe the "Low Saxon is cool" thing, let's say: Low
Saxon has a lobby in the north, but not so in the south. There's a
difference in the minds.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
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Marcus Buck</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">