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L O W L A N D S - L - 10 October 2008 - Volume 02<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "History" 2008.10.09 (02) [E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Beste
Jonny</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Subject:
LL-L "Etymology" 2008.10.09 (01) [E]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You report:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The saga
tells, that a special group of people, a probably Celtic
tribe, living around there (near the Alpes) had invented a method to find
the arch (crater?)of the meteorites. This made them capable to forge weapons
you would not have found anywhere else in Europe.
Even the Roman Empire partly bought their
swords there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Ja, in 1881
there was a bad drought, & Lake
Constance sank to its
lowest level in historic times, exposing piles from a Helvetian lake-town
(destroyed, we may suppose in the campaigns of Big Julie). In amongst the dross
they found Gallic long-swords (spathas)of such quality these blades could
be bent into a bow & sprang back straight, as perfect an example of
spring-steel as was hard to meet even in Napoleonic times.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">This casts
a certain light on a certain calumny. Other Classical sources write of how a
Gallic warrior frequently had to step out of the battle-line to straighten his
sword-blade under his foot. Nonsense: I don't see a man stepping out of the
battle-line for any reason. If the enemy doesn't gut him, his outraged buddies
will. This is an old Classical lie told against sundry enemies, one the Romans
stole from the Greeks like so much else. Less-than-tool-steel-quality could
make six spearheads to one sword-blade, & not need to be such quality steel
either. You can kill with a spear, & arm five more warriors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Jonny:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(BTW: What
means 'to channer on it.' and when and what was the 'La Teinè expansion', </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">svp?)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">' Channer'
comes from the Scots, (to gnaw - om te knaag). As in 'The channering worm doeth
chide' (the gnawing worms complain), so say two brothers called from the
grave to "explain themselves" to their grieving mother, & must in
haste return.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The La
Teine period runs from about the fifth century B.C. First typical samples of
the culture being recovered from graves from about 480B.C.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Groete,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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