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cybalist@egroups.com, Håkan Lindgren <h5@...> wrote:
> Darwin R. Garcia -
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> Possibly, the Danes were named after the river which they
predominantly used to trade with the eastern folk. The locals would
not know of the originating location of the Danes and most probably
had little or no knowledge of their language either. I wonder if this
idea has any precedents in other parts of the world/history.
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> Why would the Danes call themselves the same name as a far-
away "eastern folk" used to call them? That doesn't seem likely to
me. Most peoples prefer not to borrow their own names from other
languages, for example: the Germans are called "Germans" by the
English, "Allemands" by the French, "nemeci" by the Czech, but they
call themselves "Deutsche".
>
> Hakan
But if they immigrated into Denmark from there, or used Denmark as a
base for trading there, those "estern folk" would not be far away.
Torsten