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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "History" 2010.03.14 (02) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">
From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jonny</span> <span><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" target="_blank">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><font size="2">Subject: <span>LL-L
"History" 2010.03.14 (01) [EN]<br>
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<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"><span>Beste
Ron,</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"><span>you
wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span><font color="#008080">Middle German?! For some reason I was assuming that it
was Middle Saxon ("Middle Low German") and that that was the reason for
which we are discussing this on Lowlands-L.</font></span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"><span>And
so
thought I (and I guess, Hanne as well ;-)!) when I first read the
inscription <strong><em>"myt wyllen dyn eygen". </em></strong>I was
waiting for special explanations about the Northern, i.e. Low
Saxon origin of the ring.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left"><font size="2"><span>But going further in the text I learned that it
probably was manufactured by a Southern German (Augsburg) goldsmith
who had lived in Venice for a while.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left"><font size="2"><span>And later we find some passages written in a German
dialect which I guess to be late Middle HIGH German.</span></font></div>
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Low German/Saxon, Middle German, Upper German, there is no way to know,
the text is too short and doesn't show any non-Gemeingermanisch
features. "dyn" may look Low German, but even today there are Upper
German dialects who don't show the Middle High German diphthongization
(</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://137.248.81.135/diwa/ECW.asp?ID1=191" target="_blank"><http://137.248.81.135/diwa/ECW.asp?ID1=191></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">).
The Middle High
German diphthongization started roundabout 1200 and spread from the
extreme south-east. The spread ended in the 16th century. So perhaps
the ring is from one of the areas which were not yet affected by the
Middle High German diphthongization about 1500. Or the area was already
affected and it's just conservative spelling. From the text we cannot
tell.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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