LL-L "Names" 2003.02.19 (12) [E]

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From: Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann <Friedrich-Wilhelm.Neumann at epost.de>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2003.02.19 (05) [E/LS/V]

Hi, Ron, Lowlanners,

You wrote:
>
> I hope you had a good time in Lunenburg.  It's a pretty city with a lot of
> interesting sites, originally the home of Slavonian-speaking
> Draveno-Polabians.
>
> Aulet Baste,
> Reinhard/Ron

Is there any UG-name for those our ancestors? I've never heard about them!

B.T.W.: I don't think them having lived WITHIN the old"en" Lunen-"burg" in
special, but just in the next (e.g. "Wendisch Evern" or similar), because
those Germanic (German??)  (UG) "Burgen" (E) "castles" had been built
against the Slavians in basic purpose.
Though- as far as I know there was a very friendly commonship between
germanic and slavonic people in that special region even at that early times
(early middle-ages). It did- for example-  look differently from the Baltic
regions of Holstein, where sudden attacks from Slavonian boat bounded bands
(hey!) had been a plague for centuries.

Regards

Fiete.

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Names

Fiete:

> Is there any UG-name for those our ancestors? I've never heard about them!

Yes, _Drawäno-Polaben_ (_Drawaeno-Polaben_, sometimes written as one word).
The language is usually referred to as _Drawänopolabisch_.

> B.T.W.: I don't think them having lived WITHIN the old"en" Lunen-"burg"

No, in close proximity on the heath (Hannoversch Wendland) in the same
parish, but I believe some of them later moved to Lunenburg once they had
been "civilized" ...  (Reports about them describe them as have "loose
morals" ...)  The last native speaker of this Polabian language variety died
in 1799, I believe.  That language is full of Lowlands Saxon (Low German)
loanwords.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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