Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

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

>
> > > 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
>

Fascinating story. Saxony was huge at that time --if
you include Lower Saxony --just about everything in a
straight line between Hamburg and the border of
Silesia.
So, maybe some of the Obodrites took refuge from the
Danes a bit farther to the west --but I'm speculating



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