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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="PT-BR">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 14 March 2009 - Volume 05<br>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: History<br>
<br>
Hi, Folks!<br>
<br>
I wrote about the Pirate Störtebeker's name:<br>
<br></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I assume that this thing about Störtebeker's last name is a case of folk
etymology, perhaps already created in his lifetime ("Look how he pours
down the beer, true to his name!") </span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
If it were German it would be something like Stürz(e)bacher. The verb <i>störten</i>
(German <i>stürzen</i>) has basic meanings like "to fall heavily",
"to plummet", "to crash". In connection with <i>Bääk (Beek</i>)
(brook, rivulet) it suggests the rushing of fast streaming water.</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
<br>
Of course, some claim that Störtebeker, known as Stortebeker in older
documents, was a nickname or a nickname-derived surname in which the last part
is etymologized as <i>beker</i> (> <i>Bäker</i> ~ <i>Beker</i>) 'beaker'.
Legend has it that he was able to empty a four-liter beer stein in one gulp.
Again just legend, though Middle Saxon <i>storte den beker</i> (something like
"down the hatch") > <i>Stortebeker</i> is not an impossibility. <br>
<br>
If the name is place-derived we would have to locate a place once called *<i>Stortebêk</i>.
But places and their names came and went.<br>
<br>
There are several theories regarding Störtebeker's place of origin. As far as I
am concerned, the most plausible of these is Wismar,
a Hanseatic port town in Mecklenburg. This
would favor Störtebeker's life as a seafarer and contacts with the Hanseatic
Trading League (for not many people at that time left their place of birth).
Furthermore, a contemporary document mentions that two persons had been banned
from Wismar on
account of brawling, one of them named <i>nicolao stortebeker</i>.<br>
<br>
My basic point is that we need to take stories about Störtebeker with several
grains of salt. Much or most of relevant popular literature, TV programs and
the annual Rügen Störtebeker Festival are based on popular legends.<br>
<br>
The same apparently applies to a portrait that has been attributed to him and
has been circulated in relevant literature, now also on the Web. <br>
<br>
<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Kunz_von_der_Rosen.jpg">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Kunz_von_der_Rosen.jpg</a><br>
<br>
First of all, anyone that knows anything about historical art ought to know
that the fashion displayed there is that of about one century later. Serious
historians attribute the portrait to the German (more precisely Swabian)
aristocrat Kunz von der Rosen.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunz_von_der_Rosen">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunz_von_der_Rosen</a><br>
<br>
According to records, in 1401 Störtebeker was beheaded on the then island of Grasbrook,
a part of Hamburg.
Toward the end of the 19th century, an impaled skull was found there. It was
determined that it belonged to a person executed there around the year 1400,
and that led to the assumption that it was Störtebeker's. A reconstruction of
the owner's head is now an exhibit in the History Museum of Hamburg (Museum für
Hamburgische Geschichte):<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rekonstruierter_Schaedel.jpg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rekonstruierter_Schaedel.jpg</a><br>
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,569321,00.html">http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,569321,00.html</a><br>
<br>
Anyway, legend furthermore claims that the mayor later broke his promise and had
all 73 pirates beheaded and their heads displayed impaled. Besides, the found skull
was merely the only fairly intact one among skull fragments that were unearthed.<br>
<br>
What may have contributed to the assumption that it was </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Störtebekers skull </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> was the popular assumption that
Störtebeker was the only one among his men that suffered this fate. This again
is based on the legend that the pirate made a deal with the authorities according
to which all those men be freed past whom his headless body managed to walk. He
went past the eleventh comrade when the executioner tripped him ... Even if this
were true it would be no grounds on which to assume that the skull belongs to Störtebeker.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></p>
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