LL-L "What does it mean?" 2008.05.03 (04) [E]

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From: Pat Reynolds <pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "What does it mean?" 2008.05.02 (02) [E/LS]

Thank you  Jonny (Meibohm) for solving the mystery of the Tor-Haus letters.

Ron asks "My (perhaps wild) hypothesis is that it is these regions of
Britain that originally were primarily Saxon for quite some time, and that
it is these regions that promise discovery of some sort of Saxon continuum
with the Hadeln region."

I think "for good historical reasons" as they say, that apart from the Hanse
connection, the linkages between Hadeln and England  have gone unmarked
(compared, for example with the links between East Anglia and Holland, or
Kent and the Pas de Calais).  I think the 'good historical reason' that the
links have not been sought out is that this part of the world has not had
the prominence in English consciousness that the others have had.  It is in
archaeology and in the smaller histories - individual merchants and
craftspeople that the connections are to be found, but without the larger
kings-and-battles histories, people don't think to look.

Thanks again,

Pat

-- 
Pat Reynolds

It may look messy now ...
       ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).

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