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L O W L A N D S - L - 26 February 2009 - Volume 01<br>
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From: <span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span> </span><span><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span>LL-L "History" 2009.02.25 (04) [E]</span><br>
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How times change! I bet modern Swedes would be a bit taken aback at being seen
as a rapacious threat!</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Paul</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Secretly
plotting to restore Repton, Derbyshire, to the status of Capital of Mercia.<br><br>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
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Subject: History<br>
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Well, Paul, more educated Swedes today must be aware that they used to be
perceived as a threat in places like Norway, Denmark, Northeastern Germany, the
Baltic Countries and Finland. Bear in mind that there used to be a good deal of
turf fighting within Scandinavia, and both Denmark
and Sweden
used to be colonizing powers until not terribly long ago.<br>
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And certain<span> </span>communities of speakers of
what they claim are separate Scandinavian languages still have gripes about
Swedish language domination and non-recognition of their languages ~ dialect
groups (Elfdalian, Gutnish, Jamtlandic, Scanian).<br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="DE">Jamtlandic: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/jamska-info.php" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/jamska-info.php</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></p>
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