Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 56996
Date: 2008-04-07

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > > Kuhn does consider it and brackets out, on the
> side of caution,
> > > all Wend- names in Thuringia and also in Hesse.
> The rest
> > > he views as safe. I'll get back to the article
> tomorrow, it's
> > > getting too late for translating from German.
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > ****GK: There were Wend collaborationists. I don't
> see
> > why Germans should automatically be exempt from a
> > tactic employed in many other contexts. Only
> careful
> > examination can tell. No a priori exclusions.****
>
> True. Kuhn points out a couple of fun facts about
> the Wend- and
> Welsch- names:
>
> 1) They don't overlap.
>
> 2) There aren't any in central NWBlock territory,
> Holland and south.
>
> Kuhn takes 1) to mean that Wend- and Welsch-
> designated the same
> ehtnic group. I think they may be two groups. 2)
> seems to mean that
> whoever lived in central NWBlock they were never
> colonized to the
> degree that their settlement stood out from the rest
> so much that they
> were named for the ethnicity of their inhabitants.
>
>
> Torsten
>
I see your point --there aren't too many places called
Waltons in Welsh speaking Wales , Scott is not a
Highland last name and Langley and Inglis aren't
(originally) English surnames.
I noticed the Wend- topos are a way to the NW. It
could well be that the locals there just assumed that
Wendish meant anyone who spoke differently --perhaps
this is what Kuhn was getting at. Or they could have
been Wends.



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