Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

From: tgpedersen
Message: 56981
Date: 2008-04-07

> > Moving Wends to Western Germany I think would have made us much
> > sense to German administrators as to American administrators the
> > idea of moving the Navajo to Pennsylvania. I don't think they did
> > it.
> >
> >
> > Torsten
>
> Perhaps, but there were Polabians not very far away
> --at least on the map. How far west did they make it?
> It would be possible that the Germans may settled them
> as slaves or serfs a ways away from the linguistic
> frontier --but I'm just speculating. I would imagine
> that with the Carlovingian conquest of western Germany
> there was some depopulation that may have necessitated
> new settlements.

Apparently there was, at least east of the Elbe.
http://tinyurl.com/4uqpkn


Torsten