Klocksin is is a village in Mecklenburg, exactly on the watershed between the drainage basins of the North Sea and the Baltic, only three kilometers south of lake Malchin. To the north-west one of the largest - presumably even the largest - megalithic sites of Germany is situated exactly at the highest point of the ridge. Its sheer largeness votes against being a grave or even a graveyard - as described by the information boards in situ - the more so as there are numerous clearly megalithic graves along the gorges at the northern flank of that ridge towar
ds lake Malchin. This site probably is a military or civil rather than a religious one, wherefore first and foremost its strategic location does speak. It points to an early and densely populated region in the megalithic era 4000 to 2000 bChr. However, a linkage to the early Middle Age remains of the city in the floodplain forest at lake Flache See is unlikely, albeit we have to assume that these remains overbuild older ones.
In the floodplain forest of a peninsula on the western bank of lake Flacher See south of Klocksin, there lies a city, which is high Middle Age or - less likely early modern era - according to its overall impression. This dating results from fragments of red roof tiles, spread around. This site is well-known to the locals with carvings in the tree trunks, even of late. The city is not easy to arrive at, except by boat. From Blücherhof in the west one has to trudge through cultivated fields, which is possible only after harvest. The stonelike sites opposite on the eastern bank of the lake were collected in the megalithic era, or are simple field stones, piled up during all times.
a city, living from the trade across the watershed
The Site
Description of the city: Whether this city is placed on an artificial filled up lake ground, or was flattened by digging down an elevation to the level of the lake, remains open. Such flat peninsulas covered with floodplain forests are to be found in all lake districts of northern Gerrmany. Usually they were shallow lake grounds to become marshy. Walls around the city do not exist, it was protecteed by clearly artificial trenches ( see below ), which after the city was abandoned were filled up or petered out. The waterfront is flat, presumably artificial quays or piers were present, however, no longer are visible.
there must have been a pier
The Citadel
in the north of the city area lies on top of a hill some 5 m high. Its layout is a circle with a diameter of less than 100 m. On top there are rests of brick-built walls, which date the city into the ( early or high ?) Middle Age, at any rate after the Slavic era. The citadel is protected all around, also against the city, by an approximately 6 m wide trench, which, like all ditches there, today is too wet for agriculture.
the rubble in the trench around the citadel should contain many datable artefacts
The Schloß berg
is a hill spectacularly overlooking the city from the south-west, already outside its area. Although one finds this place name on all maps of the region, there are no visible traces of a castle on top. Viewed from above, also in Google Earth, there are two artificial trenches, nearly 100 m long and 20 m wide, running from its foot to the lake shore. Today they are solid but watery ground.
has the city been lost before the castle was constructed ?
Mysteries
Open questions If this city still existed in historical times - what was its name? Are there written or oral sources? If so this name must have been made sounding German. When the city was first founded ( because of the favorable location presumably already during the megalithic era ) on the main waterway from the Baltic to river Elbe? And when it was abandoned - only late during the 30-years war, when any trade broke down in Germany, hence also across the watershed, and whole swathes of land were destroyed and depopulated? Or was it merely relocated to Klocksin and there later overbuilt, a distance of only 5 kilometers. Are there remains of sites and facilities to transport boats between the lakes of the cataract down to the Müritz which were not overbuilt by later water mills or those of emporer Wilhelm II? This city cannot have been Rethra since that place was located further to the east, even east of lake Tollense. And it cannot have been Jumne, the second unidentified Slavic place. However,
is a military ansatz - the same as in Malta's small island Comino - which gives rise to the assumption that this hillfort (?) is to be located somewhere between the Tollense- and Oder-valleys. Also with a military meaning,
Rethra
⭮
r a ظ r a ظ
≡
to crack, smash, break
with two s in ظ canceled, located at (Burg-) Stargard ?
gives rise to the impression that Rethra was the main defense of a military borderland - a Mark - and Jumne was located as a kind of backup to the north.
This is suggestive of Jumne being some kind of northern retreat for Rethra in this borderland - since danger looms in the south. 🏹Because of the military bearing in eastern Semitic
sta+radd sta+radd
≡ ≡
to get back, regain to come back
p 263 p 262 ]
and also in Assyrian
redûmmmmm
≡
(to) lead, escort troops, persue, chase enemy
[BGP p 301
Rethra
⭮
+la+ad
≡
nobody + till
p 173+p 4
+râḫu
≡
left over
p 303 ]
one even can think of both bulwarks having played a role in this battle at river Tollense: Accordingly the megalithic defenders were well prepared for any assault from the south, retreating north to Jumne in order to lure the attackers towards the footbridge at Conerow in the swampy valley of river Tollense, and to stab them in the back. Both locations together are an excellent geo-strategical block against raids of the Indo-Europeans of the urnfield-culture in the south. • Only 4 km north of the village Wodarg - the place wherefrom any attack from the east onto river Tollense has to start - there is the broad, swampy, east-west basin Großer Landgraben. Two wet arms surround a small island on which obviously in the upcoming Modern Era someone also has reckognised the strategical value of an offensive defense against invaders from the south - the Veste Landskron. This situation resembles that one of Ragnarök between Stuer and Röbel. On top of both benches we find megalithic structures, but those to the south of the Landgraben hardly are reckognisable - some erratic boulders which may have drifted downhill. In ancient times there only were connecting plank roadways - in swamps they are easy to mask against aliens. • For the southern location Rethra there is only, the most likely one solution - (Burg) Stargard. The name means Old Town in Slavic, which tells that already in that late era it was old. It is situated on a hill, one of seven ones, which in turn are situated on a high plain. For ruling the country this place is essential - today this center has moved downhill and a few kilometers westwards to Neubrandenburg at lake Tollense. However, this encounters two challenges −
🛑 there should be archeological traces of the battle on both sides of the track ( from the east ) down to the motte at Conerow close to the river, 🛑 morphologically the letter l must have been assimilated by the letter r in one of the three changes of the population up to present or simply have been misunderstood by the German chronicler.
Altogether we assume
Jumne at Landskron and Rethra at Stargard ❗
Stettiner Haff, river Peene and Großer Landgraben enclose a broad coastal plain in which
Span+te +k +ow
⭮
sapannu + t â m t immmm +ī kumm +ow
≡ ≡ ≡
coastal plain mm+ ditch mmmm+ Slavonization
standard Accadian tant i [P&W] also dyke - a Babylonian loan? meaning someone from there
is situated around 11 km from the Schwedenstraße, connecting Anklam with Ducherow, east of which there only are wet lands up to the Haff. For the middle row there is alternatively a Sumerian retrospection
has to be mentioned here - with, however, the challenge that the last consonant in the earliest Slavic written record is unexplained. These northern locations have names from geography. Since danger was looming from the south, the urnfield-culture, we expect south of Stargard mainly names with a military bearing. Exception
Rebel(+ow Ramel(+ow
⭮
ram l (+...
≡
sand (+...
north south of the Graben
straightly on the sand dunes siding the Landgraben - only 9 km southeast exactly in the same proximity of the Landgraben we have the place name Sand hausen❗
Ramla in Gozo, Amelân in Friesland, Amrum in Schleswig, Rømø in Denmark, now Ramelow here — it remains to find such sand-names in all megalithic territories.
Up to the Prussian railway construction, deeply cut into the high plain at a lake and connected to the outside only by one path
Cammin
⭮
ka'm i: n
≡
seek shelter
like above in Jumne
6 km south of Stargard was one of the the loneliest hamlets in Germany.
Usadel
⭮
usātu + el
≡
help, assistence + high
view from above on- to the large lake Tollense
[ BGP p 428+p 69 ,
obviously was a main station on the way north, overseeing the lake from above.
Peckatel
⭮
puāgu +ta mmmmmm+el
≡ ≡ ≡
take away forcibly from mmmmm+ from mmmmmmmm+ high
shorter pēgu a Sumerian reminiscence Usadel in view 8 km east
obviously was a station to block any traffic and trade west of lake Tollense. Only some 4 km north of Usadel
Nemer (+ow
⭮
nāmeru (+...
≡
watch tower (+...
here all towers for signalling
[ BGP p 235 ]
was a kind of backwards station. Close to Stargard at
Rowa
⭮
rab i a ramû
≡ ≡
warden quit a place
a kind of castellan m → w
[ P&W p 90, p 91 ] [ BGP p 297 ]
administration begins. 4 km south of the military bolt Peckatel-Usatel
Weisd +in
⭮
usâtu + i i n
≡
Usadel╱ +troop
garrison of Usadel
is a kind of advanced post at a southern border of the Megalithicians - there are numerous megalithic sites spread over this area around lake Lieps. In Weisdin the site still can be seen at the highest point of the hill, although many of its stones have been used for road construction and the wall around the cemetry besides - it looks like that one at Randow near Demmin. On the other sites they probably are overbuilt by manors and castles. Like halfway between Peckatel and Usadel as the crow flies the castle Hohen
Z i er (+itz)
⭮
zuāzu, zu ᦱ ᦱ uzu za ᦱ uzzu
≡ ≡
divided, distribution distribution
ᦱ ↔ r or a phone- tic r filled in later
[ BGP p 446, p 450 ] [ P&W p 178 ]
as a kind of distribution center exactly in the central hill of these megalithic borderlands. The suffix +its may be added in the Slavic and the prefix Hohen in the German era. Some of them may have been only watch towers, to have intervisibility. They therefore were a military locking bolt of the Megalithicians and may have played a role in the battle of Conerow at river Tollense.
only excavations can disclose these mysteries
The True Sensation
is, however, the huge megalithic site at the highest point of the watershed some 1.5 kilometer northwest of the village Klocksin: Seen from above it is a perfect half-disk on the southern side of the gravel road following the watershed. Since it is well-known that a circle has the optimal quotient of area to circumfence, there must have been a second half-disk north of the gravel road, looted probably already in prehistoric times and in the following was totally robbed of all stones. There must have been two gates exactly at the gravel road. Whether the two wooded pit-like structures to the north, spared from agriculture, were included is difficult to decide without excavation. Such circular gills can be seen all over that region, most of them without an archeological background.
Before the teardown of its northern half it was one of the largest megalithic sites in Europe. We take it for the treasury of the Nibelungs.
Its affiliation to the landing at the northern end of lake Fache See is akin to that one of the Ahrensberg to the dry overland passage from Twietfort to Stepenitz. In both cases we assume military guardance of the long distance road together with the storage of goods. Whether it also is mentioned in the conflict between Vanir and Asir, remains open.
Only recently the Fossa Carolina was reckognised as being a completed and in use waterway between the basins of river Main and river Donau. Thus this predecessor of the modern Rhein-Main-Donau-channel was not only a trial of the era of Charlemagne but already a successful waterway, until it later ( during the Interregnum? ) went bust and was forgotten [ LZ& ]. It even is possible that this Fossa Carolina plaid a decisive role in the subjection of the Bavarians by the Franconians and the subsequent ousting of the Bavarian gentry of duke Garibald and their replacement by Franconian knights - 200 years before the replacement of an Anglo-Saxon by a Norman nobility after the battle of Hastings. Between lake Malchiner See and the Müritz, hence between the basins of the Baltic and the North Sea, there exists a matchable trial to construct a waterway which for sure hasn't been completed. This western variant of the amber route, however, has been in existence for many centuries - may be even millennia - until bronze was replaced by iron and until therefore the Germanics - coming into existence in this Urzelle around Seddin - exited to the west, south and north. Pre-historic trading routes follow natural ridge- and waterways, mostly installed much earlier by the bell-beaker-culture: Here - in principle north-south river Peene upstream - passing the lakes of Kummerow and Malchin, then across the watershed at Klocksin. Therefrom it continues via a cataract of seven small into the large lakes of the Müritz-lake plain:
These seven lakes were connected by short streams, navigable with canoes. Today they are partly interupted by water mills. At the spring of river Havel it was as recently as emperor Wilhelm II to make the waterway navigably for canoes by building lorries to carry the canoes over short distances between the lakes of the cataract, even erecting the railway station of Kratzeburg dedicated to „his" canoests. Its prolongation leads via lake Plauersee, and from Bad Stuer at its southern landfall by a wandering through dry forests to river Stepenitz at the cloister / convent Marienfließ in the village Stepen i tz. A question remains: At the Klocksin end of lake Flache See there is a channel 100 m long and 20 m wide, which today is swampy. Has here somebody tried to cut through the watershed? Since we do not find a counterpart at lake Malchiner See - say at the hamlet Peenehäuser or on the lakefront in Dahmen to the east - we have to explain this site as a harbor, thus attributing to the nearby island in lake Flacher See the role of a staple market - but one with a megalithic tomb!
is relatively simple: A junction on top of the waterhed, hence in west-east-direction is possible, but here in northern Germany unproven. To the north the Baltic Sea itself was a trading route, and in the south the prolongation of the Hellweg from the west via Potsdam to the Baltic states was a major competition. Hence the need for a west-east-trading route on the watershed was low, such routes usually only were important locally. Contrary to this trading of amber along several trading routes from the Baltic to the Mediterranean in all epochs remained profitable and therefore stable. Hence the Semitic etymology
exactly hits the archeological situation on the watershed between North Sea and Baltic, the southern border of the Peene basin. Given that these two components, language and archeology, of a Müller-Hirt diagram go together, we assert that here the third component mythology is described by the opening, the Alberich part, of the Nibelungenlied. The lacking forth part anthropology needs at least an excavation and the DNA-analysis of human remains.
Herein probably Germanic a l l (e)(s) also is of Semitic origin - ku l l (a) - with an insular Celtic intermediate form hu i l i, see [ V&N p 274 ].
If this all doesn't appear in continental Celtic this would deliver a further clue for a megalithic voyage around Western Europe. But one shouldn't draw conclusions in lost languages from something which didn't take place.
Also noteworthy is the analogy of the mirrowing ul ⇄ lu with the well-known Slavic one gard ⇄ grad. Even more striking is the morphologic and semantic similarity with the name of the Norman province Calvados ! That in these place names the stronger enhancement replaces the weaker one in ma+gazine, which in turn traveled from Semitic via Italia into German [ Kluge ], also is a strong hint for an early megalithic wandering around Western Europe. ☟ Nearby
gives rise to the conclusion that there was a sacred place of this Semitic god, probably later overbuilt by a manor house. T. Vennemann even assumes that Hart land Point at the coast of Devon can be derived from Hercules meaning this god. Since the nobilty name von Maltzan early can be assigned to this place, we find here another family tradition of megalithic origin - this also of religious nature.
Slavic +ow only says someone from there and doesn't give the meaning of the initial❗
- counter example Rhinow north of Berlin - there was no Slav (?) with the name Rhin who gave his name to the river and the town. ☟ For lack of visible traces - overbuilt, washed away by floods or drowned in the lake, one should, however, dive for wrecks - at the southern end of lake Malchin in
one has to argue only from linguistics and geophysics: This name sounds more Semitic as Indo-European. And more likely one expects settlements south of the watershed, say near Klocksin, than north of it, where the climate is rusher.
☝
These places on resp. close to the watershed between North Sea and the Baltic are a hotspot of megalithic settling in northern Germany. Along river Peene followed from the Baltic upriver we find the place names
Brynhild's Seegard of the Nibe- lungensaga a trade center❓
[Qaf p 336]
Related to its area Rügen has the longest coast of all islands in the Baltic, with many bays and natural harbors. If there was the capital, likely Sagard on an island in the island and therefore naturally protected from over land attacs, it later must have been Germanised. Over time it was mystified and became Asgard, the place of the Asir – which, however, competes with a further southern location near Röbel. So, was it mixed up with Noatun, the capital of the Van i r, instead of a location in western French Nantes? And
have the early predecessors of the Phoenicians passed on some 4000 bChr their Egyptian name to the Van i r - House of Germanic gods ?
To the east river Peene stands out for its huge drainage basin especially lakes Malchin and Kummerow. Later during the Bronze Age the trade amber against metals culminated and the waterway along that river and over the watershed to river Elbe became busy, as described in detail in the following. In this name modern Arabic initial p sounds like b, like in the names of the countries Portugal and Poland. Only Iraqi Arabic keeps initial p, but basicly only for loanwords. The lower valley of this river has been - like Rügen and the area to the west of the Müritz - a cluster of megalithic settlement [ Wun map ], which should not have changed until - our dating to say 1900 bChr of - Sigurd's travel to Brynhild in Seegard in the land Suava.
on a sanddune high above the riverbank and therefore save against floods. Its controling situation is described by this name to the point. This place should have given up only after the arrival of the Slavs, since the western Slavs initially were midlanders and no seafarers. Only here they adopteed Viking habits and became dreaded pirates - to leave behind five of their place names on Lolland and Falster. Because of Arabic manzal ≡ rank, position we suppose Menzlin the residence of a prince. A seafaring nation will accept this location, protected against floods and enemies, as very suitable - which is shown by ongoing excavations even for the ages before the Vikings. ☟ A little further upriver lies
Qu i l+ow
⭮
ka l ī l ga l ᒼ a
≡ ≡
less big rock, fortification
+ow only being a later Slavic personalization
[WrK p 759] [Qaf p 527]
somewhat off the river on a place which is safe from floodings. Herein less means the surface of river Peene since at the height of Menzlin and also upstream in the same distance the river is much wider. The lower entry is less likely since a fortifiction makes here little sense and the rock in front of today's manor is not big enough to suit for a naming. Compare with Kiel. ☟
does convince more than any exerted Slavic etymology. Thus Demmin here is described as the midpoint of the vast basin of river Peene. This corresponds to the same place names in the middle of the Orkneys and the Farør. Herein we assume medieval s → r and the usual Slavic personalisation +ow in order to fit todays Rand+ow in Demmin into the Nibelungen lied as the place of Sigurd's family – read Wehr-Cowan's translation the uninterrupted chain of authorities on which tradition is based. Presumably there were more megalithic settlements near the mouth of river Peene, even below the well-excavated Viking site ? This conclusion is due to the numerous megalithic sites around this strategic situation at the confluence of three rivers. Once more Warnow, Peene and Demmin reveal how important isolation plays a role in naming neighboring regions resp. places. ☟
Malchin
⭮
mal i k+i n
≡
(the) royals
1215 recorded as Malekin
is situated so favorably halfway between the lakes of Kummerow and Malchin that it should have competed with Demmin as as a main center - may be there a center of trading, here a residence. Hence Lake Malchin is a Kings Lake. ☟
is situated high above Lake Kummerow. Its landing has been the no longer existent Wargenthin. Hence around the castle, royal stud and park there should have been an area for agriculture, the southern border of which should have been near.
Stäcker+sahl
⭮
mu + qa ع ع ar + sahl
≡
dished+plain
substitute mu+ by sta+
[WBS p 376]
on the other side. Possibly the first part of the name became a family name when in early Middle Age family names came into being. Its second part is telltale and once more describes the area accurately. ☟ Opposite on the northern bank of Lake Malchin
is naturally protected against pressure from the south. Since the bank 6000 years ago may have been further inland this place was visible from afar. In the third line z is pronounced as a sharp s, whence there is a missing t - which may be understood as a female suffix [ V&N p 98 ]. This in turn makes this place an estate of a noble wife, unbeloved but married only for dynastical reasons. ☟ Hence nearby
on the northwest bank, wherein remains open to which location - Bristow or already the landing at Lake Malchin, the sites on top of the watershed and at lake Flache See. ☟ Consideralby south of the watershed at the end of the cataract of smalleer lakes follows
at a junction of the waterway, well-known to the megalithic Vanir and an important stop of the journey south. Initial J+ clearly is Slavic, however, presumably overtaken by Slavs [ Jam p 3 ]. The origin of the European apple is supposed to have been in eastern Anatolia. In Germanic mythology apples are associated with the Vanir, hence the megalith-culture. With T. Vennemann we conclude that those had not only sheep but also apples on bord and first of all made southern England - Avalon - afterwards Jabel a region of apples. The archeobotanists of the University of Kiel come to the same conclusion for macaroni wheat. Because of the milder climate megalithic settlements are more likely to be found around Jabel than at Dahmen north of the watershed at Lake Malchin. This word also survives in an Italic place name, but therein apple was replaced by a different version of the Semitic root. Likewise [ WBS ] places inside this word field j-w-l ≡ to orbit and j-b-l ≡ mountain ( dome fits better ). ☟ Therefrom a change of direction to the west leads into the narrow stetched lake
and continuing into lake Plauer See. All these characterisatons also hold for the city of Flens burg and its Förde ( ≡ firth ), taking nasalisation into account: This firth separates together with the belt of sand dunes east of Tarp two Germanic tribes - the Anglos in the south from the Jutes in the north. ☟ Directly in front lies
Malch(+ow
⭮
mal i k
≡
ruler, prince, king
on a controlling island, barring the waterway. ☟ North of the widening of lake Petersdorf
Bies (+torf
⭮
wa:s iˁ
≡
broad, widening
w → b is a atandard shift
[internettranslation]
lies inside a forest with access to the lake. The soundshift to b may have been facilitated by the lack of meadows there. It must have occured when the megalithic language no longer was understood, because otherwise the result would have been the reverse of broad, namely baẖs ≡ belitteling.
☟
High above the eastern bank of lake Plauer Sees and in a strategic position there is
with a hillfort of the Bronze Age and still being in use until the Slavs, for sure being built against pressure onto the main waterway by the invading Indo-Europeans in the south. Whence a threshold of fortifications is to be expected there to the east. A natural continuation would be on the western bank of lake Plauer See near Appel burg between Plauer - and Plötzensee, however, without the same strategic relevance. But this remains to be verified. At least this place name is Semitic [ V&N p 504 ]. Conceivably Indo-European mercenaries were settling here, later contributing in making this area Germanic. ☟ At the southern end of lake Plauer Sees, at the foot of a steep rise leading to wayless forests and heathlands, impenetrable until the Middle Age and thus making a trading route from here to the south uneconomicly, lies
as a cut off settlement, so to say below a curtain. From a strategic point of view it is totally complementary to Userin to the east, considerably north of a line from the southern end of lake Plauer See to the Müritz. Looking at this line as the southern border of the megalithic Vanir, this corresponds to the strategic location of Roman forts at the Limes in Germany. ☝
At the end south-west of lake Plau we find the footbridge to the way overland at
surrounded by megalithic graves. Obviously this name is one more doubling, meaning fjord+fjord, since the little creek is not broad enough to justify that name. At the landing, today overbuilt by a large hotel, commences a steep slope onto a hill, which at its steepest point is dugged in deeply. Like for several gullies in this region this indicates longterm usage. Alluringly such an etymology holds for more Twiete s, a usual name for a narrow lane in northern Germany. ☟ The lack of natural defences by say rivers, mountain ranges with deep forests or else made defense a central problem for this overland passage, leading to military sites, as
Ganz l (+i n
⭮
q i šla
≡
barracks
plus nasalisation
[Whr p 373]
indicates. Conceivably here existed a (Indo-European ?) squad of mercenary soldiers, who later added to the genesis of Germanic as a new language, coming into use in Seddin. ☟ South of
radd
≡
defense
[Whr p 463]
Retz(+ow
⭮
rāș i d / rașad
≡
guard, overseer
even scout
[Whr p 475, p 476]
ta+raddud
≡
coming in and out
hence typical for surveillance
[Whr p 464]
razz
≡
festening at
[Whr p 466]
- like Rethra obviously a military-strategic name - visibly from afar elevates the
Ahrensberg
⭮
ح i ras
≡
surveiling
a military function
[WBS p 96]
ح i raz
≡
piling, hoarding, staple
stapleing of goods and merchandise
at the northern border of a flat saddle between lake Plau and Stepenitz. It has the same function for the overland-passage crossing this saddle as Klocksin has for the passage over the watershed in the north. The nasalisation by an infixed n sounds like being a *Vasconisation. Because of
on both elevations an archeological excavation is with excellent prospects. In Ahrensburg near Hamburg this spot presumeably is the hill west of the Bredenbeker Teich. Comparison of the place names alone gives rise to the conclusion, that Ahrens burg plays the same role at the Königsweg from Hamburg to Lübeck - all locations lie somewhat aside the route - more exactly in the backyard ( of the main locations Klocksin and the Mellingburg ) and are easier to defend but close by.
There is an offshoot to the south via the Müritz to the - in southern direction stretched - lake Nebel, running in an alluvial channel and 6000 years ago still connected with the Müritz and the more southern lakes. At the southern slope of the watershed near Klocksin this nameless (?) early Middle Ages city in the floodplain forest overbuilds an earlier staple market. The cataract of smaller lakes, whose water connections some 6000 years ago should have been considerably longer, crosses over into Germany's largest lake - the Müritz. At the Megalithic age all this should have been only one larger lake.
is a better etymology than the well-known Slavic - from little sea - one, which also hits but probably only is an adaptation at an already earlier, but no longer understood name. Indeed on its eastern bank - with many bays - on every headland there are megalithic tombs, every second being overbuilt by a bunker of world war II. East of these headlands there only are shallow ponds, swamps and floodplain forests, which foster the impression of an entrance into the realm of the death. Has this been an isolated necropolis, to be arrived at only by boat ? That we find here - in later times only liturgical - Sumerian is another success !
Educated guess :❓ Similarly the name Pomerania can be understood, because Assyrian pāna+ ≡ vor+ gives German Vor+ instead of West+. Likewise hitting mer ≡ high water and mu ≡ river [ Ppl 1 pp 57,58,59 ] - all of them being much older than the usual Slavic etymology. Assyrian pāna+mer even is closer to the name Pomerania than every usual Slavic etymology! And - German Vor+ is a word doubling because it already is part of this name. This also means that the Megalithicians came in from the west, and that this took place from the valley of river Oder, with its frequent floods because of its huge drainage basin. Thus this naming makes sense inland and not at Baltic coasts. We assume that the megalithic name of river Oder contained the short mu+, later translated to water by the invading Indo-Europeans - and therefore isn't a new name. Do we encounter somewhere in Hinter-Pomerania ark i š ≡ behind as a part of a name [P&W p 79] ❓ 990 aChr we find for and in Pomerania the name Schinesge: Assyrian šanuš ≡ differing, alternative can be looked at as a variant of German Hinter with the root šanû ≡ to be different [P&W p 111]. Arabic šanaţ ≡ fixed permanently [ B&H p 481 ] and [ Spi p 248 ] even gives rise to a political interpretation: The eastern border of the megalith-culture, especially of the province the name of which contained the name Anklam, was only a few kilometers east of the island of Wollin. Adjacent Hinter-Pomerania wasn't heartland but confederate and kept in check by a border guard on the island, whose gruffness became outspoken and only was terminated much later by christianity. It prevailed in times of weakness of the central power and then became mere piracy, for instance during the Viking era - compare history and name of the Hansa. Also because of the central location of the island of Wollin Assyrian
Misdroy ⭮ muštarr i ţu ≡ cocky, arrogantmmmm[ P&W p 69 ]
is a nice pre-Slavic derivation which avoids searching for a spring there. Since the nordic megalith-culture prevailes for more than 2000 years, and to the east there were no more megalithic sites, there also is the alternative derivation
Misdroymmn⭮ m i șru + darû ≡ border + everlasting [P&W p 65, p 21]
possible. Difficult to decide - perhaps playing with words?
In the upper line of Müritz the syllable mur only can be traced back to early Semitic gamāru [Ppl 1 p 252]. ☟
cuddles at the end of an inlet, twice sectioned by narrows. This firth is a secure place for boats, contrary to the eastern bank of the Müritz, the numerous coves of which open to the west. On the promontaries of the east bank alternate megalithic tombs with modern bunkers, into which someone during or after the second world war has built in the stones of such tombs. Therefore this east bank is a large necropolis, to be arrived at only by boat across the Müritz. Presumably this east bank some 6000 years ago still was a chain of flat islands and a scenary of swamps and shallow ponds. Hence we can understand the loss of the suffix +uġ because bāl ≡ wichtig also makes sense [Whr p 124]. ☟ South of the Müritz, lake Müritzsee and lake Kleine Müritz there is
today the central and largest lake in this lake chain, which, however, has nothing to do with river Nebel further north. However, since here there is no continuation of the waterway to rivers Havel and Elbe, this route to the south was not able to compete with that one along river Stepenitz. At the junction of the Müritz into lake Fleesensee there should have been a large megalithic site - still to be discovered? But on the hill chain east of lake Nebelsee, to be compared with that one east of the lake Mühlensee at the Havelspring, there is nothing like that. ☟ Also there are few - if any - megalithic sites more to the south, if one changes from the water basin of the Müritz into that one of river Rhin ( say near Diemitz / Luhme ), continuing the waterway for many miles till the spout of river Rhin into river Havel near the village Pritzen south of lake Gülper See. This name is another Pritz+name, like that one of Pritzerbe upriver the Havel. ☝ Further down to the south there is a short passage from lake Nebel to lake
- the historical tabloids in the nearby village Lärz even report the old name Turne for the whole area. Adding the suffix +i yye, typical for Semitic place names, we get Tronje, hence Hagen's place in the Nibelungenlied. On its eastern shore in the Lärzer Werder there is a nearly rectangular hill fort with the passed down name
- hence of megalithic origin and only adapted to Plattdeutsch and by no means Slavic. Opposite on its western shore there is one of the many German Block sberge, which we ( have to ) take for a settlement ( more probably execution ) place of the indigenous Bandkeraramik people.
is a since the 1950 years abandoned place on the Lärzer Werder north of the hill fort.
Less than 3 km to the south as the crow flies the hamlet Troja - with a connection by boat via the today mostly dried out lake Krümmel - looks like a kind of associated manor. Which may have lost the n in its name only lately due to Schliemann's Troja-hype - this is the standard explanation. However, we do not have to care for this letter n, since in the nordic version of the Nibelungen-saga Hagen's place even is called Troia❗
The geo-strategical situation of the Turne-area is simple - with only a height of less than 3 m above the lakes the place Baggeltrog is nearly completely surrounded by water. Against the Lärzer Werder in the east there remains an isthmus which is blocked by a small motte. To the south there was a sidearm of lake Tralow, which today is drained by a modern channel along swampy meadows.
Despite rare megalithic sites we see the possibility to take this lake for the home of the Nibelungen
– and the hillfort east of lake Türen as the manor of Hagen of Tronje – - and hence to associate to the route from lake Müritz down to river Nuthe in Potsdam a decisive historical role.
Perle+berg and a congruent hydro-strategic location lead to an etymology, although tentatively, of Cölln and Berlin, the usual ones sofar lacking conviction and therefore acceptance: to level out or simply flat from the Prignitz sounds alluringly - which would make Berlin a Slavic-sounding Semitic word. Because many locations around the historic twin cities Berlin and Cölln lie in plane fields and meadows, plain alone doesn't suffice for an explanation. And to level out - meaning earthwork - must be proven by archeology. And above all - Berlin doesn*t lie in the area of the megalith-culture, the nearest sites are more than 100 km to the north at lake Stiernsee and at Möllen- and Wredenhagen. At best this was an advanced post on the way south, which, however, was not to be defended against Indo-European pressure. We know such advanced posts already at the mouth of river Havel ( but without any megalithic trace ) and near Wredenhagen and perhaps near Diemitz ( with a megalithic grave ). Berlin / Cölln lie at a narrow of the glacial valley between the upper moraines Barnim and Teltow. Which makes swamps less likely than at broader courses of this valley. A Slavic name for swamps hence is less appropriate than one from an opening plane - to river Wule in the east and river Havel in the west. Contrary to this we add more weight to the hydro-strategic congruence with two more megalithic sites: Like the Schwedenschanze near Horst ( close to Seddin ) and at the outlet of river Havel near Gülpe there has been a navigable north-south-connection, an offshoot to the east - where the central places were, namely the Schwedenschanze resp. the village Priesten, in Berlin / Cölln river Spree. Because of a lack of continuation to the south the waterway Havel-Spree as a variant of the amber route was not competitive. Therefore it probably was blocked to support that one at Seddin. Cölln possibly like Kiel comes from Semitic qalyl ≡ to narrow with an +n as strengthening. The hill Kien+berg 15 km to the east can be translated, like that one at Priesten, as a retreat+ or protection+mountain, and the river name Wuhle may come from a troupe of guards, like at Walow in between the 5 lakes and Wollin at the outlet of river Oder. Like the name Havel, which is megalithic and clearly Germanic, the name Spree is supposed to be Germanic as well. Hence it may come from any of the three non-related language groups in question. If there were megalicitians here it should describe a characteristic geographical feature at the outlet into river Havel. If it has its name from the Spreewald we can think of * Vasconic zabal ≡ broad , phonetically close to zabar. However, there is a 'Vasconic name, matching the Spreewald even better.
☝ Look back to the south of the Müritz and lake Nebelsee and another variant of the amber route towards southern regions. This route, however, needs a 20 km overland passage - say through the hollow way north of the village Flecken Zechlin:
contains a Semitic root, which also is contained in Taql i m i → Anklam . The hotel with this name is located at the southern end of a peninsla surrounded by lake Nebelsee in the west and north, plus a fen in the east. Above the hotel there are two flat-topped hills with steep slopes towards the lake, and somewhat lower terraces towards the north. On the northern end one stands on a steep high earthwork with a gorgeous view over lake Nebelsee. Since such by the Ice Age naturally made elevations never are flat on top, this site must have been man-made, carrying settlements from the beginning of settling. Constructed as studwork they could not withstand erosion. Left at the latest with the exit of the newly formed Germanics at the end of the Bronze Age, they are nothing but warpings in the flat tops of the hills. All this holds on the island on the opposite westbank as well, which together with the promontory on the eastbank forms a blockade in lake Nebelsee, which should have served the Megalithicians as a natural protection against the invading Indo-Europeans from the south. Hence there existed here a third borderland, besides that one around Anklam and the major one around Seddin at river Stepenitz. ☟ Only 1 km to the west of Ichlim we interprete the role of the village
as a market, which is to expect exactly here at the southern frontier of megalithic settling. This name reveals the same pattern as the names Torgelow am See and Torgelow an der Ücker. Both mean in Slavic trading place too, but are Germanic loans, wherein the letter +l+ may have a Slavic explanation. Herein we consider plural instead of singular suuq since Arabic suqs are spatially composed of many smaller markets. But also time plays a role since markets often take place several times a year. ☟ 2 miles south of here inmidth of a dry area we find the hill Gnitter berg. Such dry areas generally are called +heide ≡ +heath in Germany.
The Gn i t t a heide is the place where in the Nibelungenlied Siegfried killed the lindworm / dragon. It is an old insight that the Sigurd- / Siegfried-part is older than the rest of this saga.
🪤 We backdate its content - the hundred fold told tale - to the epoch around 1900 bChr
🪤 and to events of the defence of the megalithic Vanir against the invading Indo-European Asir - instead to, after christianisation not completely adjustable events of the big Migration Period aChr,
🪤 and spatially tranfer these events from west to the wild east, from Rhine to Rhin,
🪤 and that the Huns were the Indo-Europeans and among others Siegfried was a Sigurd.
For sure the Middlehighgerman version of this lied was versed - from the much older scandinavian Nibelungen saga - also an artwork ? - at a time when the heathen Slavic people made its actual area unpenetrable for Christianity - note the death of the bishop Adalbeert of Bremen.
On top of the Gnitterberg there is a crossover of two roads, the cobblestone of which probably is to be dated already into the early modern age. Since such roads often follow old, even age-old patterns, this can have been a megalithic north-south connection between Sewekow and Dranse. The etymology
describes the geographic-strategical situation surprisingly accurately, but doesn't differentiate between this one and the Gnittaheide near Salzuflen - which also is situated outside the megalithic territories but close to its southern border. Heide ≡ heath sounds Germanic but also Arabic, and so typical superstrat, that this also is a favoured girls name. [ Kluge ] traces the etymology of Heide ≡ heath also back into Celtic and Latin, i.e. into western Indo-European, which semantically fits less well - but doesn't disturb this line of argueing.
Is this road the route of the Urnfield army towards the final battlefield further north near Darze / Stuer? Maintained by the Megalithicians exactly for this purpose? To lure the attacking army of the urnfield-culture into doom by capitalising on the terrain in a masterly manner? The Gnitterberg is a high plain with some revines cut in. Is one of those artificial, dug out by Sigurd, the leader of the Vanir - in order to kill the lindworm? Or has conversely todays road bank been filled up only in the modern age, interrupting an older west-east ravine? An old thought already took the lindworm a metaphor for the Roman legions of Quintilius Varus, whom we replace by the warriors of the Asir from the south on a raid towards the riches of the Vanir met a first defense site on the Gnitterberg. And in
In lake Baal see, today sectioned in Great and Little Baalsee, there is a large peninsula, which may have been the home of Baldur and is located between the northern megalith- and southern urnfield-culture areas - which is in line with this Asir god with the megalithic name. ☛ Has in this area the final battle Ragnarök
between the northern Vanir and the southern Asir taken place? Whence the name can be understood as brilliant defense. In addition rök also is pharaonic defense [ E&G 6 p 3 ] ! We assume the field of the final battle to be the above described plain in front and behind the (first) ground wave. Hence the battlefield is situated long-stretched south of todays state road till shortly east of the village Stuer and till the willows of the swamps north of Stuer. On top of the nearby ground wave there is a place which is untouched by agriculture, deeply cut in and such large, that it may have been an assembling hall after the battle Gimle. Later it may have been chosen as funeral of the leader of the Vanir Njörd, the stones of which, however, may have fallen victim to the construction of nearby roads and railway lines. Behind a swampy place to the west there is another megalithic grave in or up a hill, in which modern road construction left deep cuts. Whether this grave then was digged out or whether during the teardown of soil it plummeted remains open. To the west in Neustuer there is another passage grave containing a stone with cup marks, which indicates an end of the battlefield. We find a nice argument for a huge battle along the line from Neustuer in the west to Finken in the east on a map of trails from the Innsbruck Kompass publishing company [ Kps ] - 17 megalithic tombs spread nearly equidistantly. Estimates for preserved megalithic tombs lie between 20 and 50 %. Thus we have here a cluster which may be compared only with that one of Morbihan in Western France - but not with the long-term in use necropolis on the eastern shore of Lake Müritz. At any rate the landmark ruling in favour of the Vanir must have fallen here, better geostrategic preparation standing up against sheer fighting power. The strategic aim of the decisive assault Ragnarök votes for this localisation, and hence against any place south of the Krohnsberge range - the legend tells that the aim were the riches of the Vanir, and those were located on the Ahrensberg, in Malchow and on the watershed near Klocksin.
After seizing the ground wave - with heavy losses - the Asir warriors found themselves in a swampy area south of the much later moated castle, with the three walls and four ditches fortification besides their right shoulders - a clavicula situation. The megalithic Vanir retreated to the east behind this fortiication and thus were able to keep their troops intact. The strategy of fortification and taking advantages of the geography equalized the ferocity and fighting power of the Indo-European urnfield warriors, i.e. the Asir. The battle dissolved into skirmishes, during which the leaders of both sides mutually killed each other. In this battle a group of giant
s (Riesen) played a role - which exactly remains unclear. The lack of written records allowed the leaders of both sides to rise to gods or at least to be mixed up with already existing gods. Since the megalithic Vanir held the battleield they were able to bury their leaders killed in action nearby according to their rites, which explains the numerous megalithic tombs of this area. The successful defense of the Vanir led to negociations and frail a balance with an exchange of hostages ( who eventually were killed ). Further to the west at Seddin there was a diplomatic solution - establishing a borderland, which led to the creation of the Germanic language as creole under a megalithic-Semiti(di)c superstrat. Dating, however, is vague. Assuming that at (2200) bChr the Indo-European invasion into Europe came to an end, Ragnarök should have taken place then. Whether in the context of these wanderings or later remains open. A dating of these graves by physical methods would be helpful. But here also many of these graves were bulldozed in the last centuries. For this reading of the Germanic sagas of the gods, which only depends on three place names, we necessarily have to break the saga of the Nibelungs and amend the Sigurd- and Wälsung parts to the twilight of the gods. This only is due to the nearness of both skirmishes. A later date of the fight on the Gnittaheide is likely, except we would be able to relate both fights directly.
Another statement of place of the Ragnarök-tale is the plain
presumably on which the victors of the battle gather and kill their prisoners. This field possibly can be located in the plain east of the village Minzow below the hill with the stone with cup marks on top, visibly afar from this plain. Its passed on name is Devil's Mountain resp. ~Stone - pertinent ! It is located some 10 miles east of the battlefield, which in turn lies some 14 miles north of the Gnitterberg. Its grim role becomes even clearer from pharaonic w ⫖ ḥ, which then means to sacrifice [p 253], also taking ʔ ṯ r ≡ prisoner into account [p 151]. This only is late New Egyptian though, but a loan from a Semitic language. Because of this loan Ragnarök may have occured long before the Egyptian New Empire. Pertinently morbid hence also is the name of the street
from Minzow below the stone with cup marks towards Röbel. Herein the Germanic and the Semitic expression are remarkably close, closer than the Germanic and Slavic resp. the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European expressions [ KS Feld ]. This points to a common Urword, which, however, can have traveled with the megalith-culture. It is not included in Brunners list [ Bru ].
Possibly this plain was Asgard - instead of Rügen - before the twilight of gods to have been Asgard, the home of the Asir: The alternative translation [Whr p 582] sakā ˀ i n ≡ home of the gods even leads to a surprising localisation of Ragnarök to the eastern Prignitz, especially taking [Whr p 823] ˀ ad ῑ y ≡ to proceed hostile or something likewise hostile into account !
resembles starkly the Semitic god Melkart. Since Germanic gods have numerous bynames, this equalisation suggests itself. This is made round by the name
Sigurd
⭮
s i ح ag + ˁard
≡
overrunning + earth
name of a winner
[WBS p 215]
from the lineage Sigi → Rerir → Völsung → Sigmund → Sigurd. This dynasty of the
surprisingly exactly hit meaning and role of these two highest gods of the Asir. Can we abstain from the usual understanding of these names as acronyms of Southgermanic names? Northgermanic names usually are not acronyms of Southgermanic names. Because of the second, the German sound shift the direction of the loan more likely is the converse one. We therefore assume that before the split of the Semitics from the Indo-Europeans there were outstanding leaders with these names or titles. In favor of this speak the shared Semitic-Indo-European words
raˁd
≡
thunder
and alsobarq ≡ Blitz [Ger] ≡ flash
[internettranslation]
with convincing Indo-European affiliations. The name Donar resembles
strikingly! Herein Egyptian pr j is the Semitic loan bary ≡ competing [Whr p 85]. The parallelism of these three etymologies surprises - that one of Prignitz does also fit exactly into the prehistory followed here: If the Indo-Europeans of the south encountered the Megalithicians of the north, there must have been regions with battlefields - not all of those yet recognized as such. First of all the area south of the Krohnsberge, the Prignitz, ia a likely area of conflict. Here the Megalithicians were able to resist narrowly. However, in the end this area became Indo-European. The Megalithicians answered by fortifying the area to the north of the Krohnsberge - the Mecklenburg, the Schwedenschanze north of the hamlet Horst, and the section wall east of Horst. They feoffed this borderland to an increasingly powerful dynasty from the Indo-European urnfield-culture and their entourage, who because of success enforced a new language. This explains the creol-aspects of the new Germanic language. But the rising Jastorf-culture was a setback seen from the northern megalith-culture. Because of the shared infix +n(a)+ all such word formations and especially place names come into play, first of all river
Döm +n+ i tz
⭮
d i m +n+ i ˁzāz
≡ ≡ ≡
to tie up a boat in dicection to / of fortification
with its already described fitting geographical / archeological situation, viz the little harbor between river Stepenitz and the ( wrongly socalled ) Schwedenschanze. To discover a harbor by linguistic analysis commemorates the roman harbor at Anreppen / Lippe. Altogether we get the diagram
Rag
+na+
rök
~
Sheela
+ na +
g i g
≀
≀
Prig
+n+
i tz
~
Döm
+n+
i tz
.
With the help of Simo Parpola [ Ppl ] we can trace more words - especially the third syllables - back into east-Semitic Assyrian / Akkadian, and even further back into the non-Semitic Sumerian language. Even the name of the nearby river
Kümmer +nitz
⭮
kamāru +nār i s
≡ ≡
hoarding, piling up + river
today's floodplain forest at the out- let was a water basin
fits into this diagram. This harbor was able to gather not more that 20 boats. Since the prince of Seddin was rich we have to assume considerable boat traffic on that waterway. Whence more boats should have been landing directly below the citadel of the Schwedenschanze. Clearly this etymology also can be seen completely parallel to that one of Dömnitz above.
☝
gives some of such (superstrat-) etymologies following the wysiwyg-principle for toponyms.
We assume that among these Semitic settlers, arriving since 4200 bChr in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, there were groups of Sumerians and Egyptians. Hence the trade amber against bronze made this borderland rich and a center of might - and led to the emergence of the Germanic languages. With the upcoming of iron this might fell, leading to a first wave of emigration. This made this once powerful region for the time being peripheral a region. At the start this House of Seddin, together with their entourage, kept the name Brieger. With their growing power a new name came into use, distinguishable from the British, the tin people of the north, and the Brieger of the south. This name German ics is of megalithic origin as well. That the name Prignitz also can be derived from Brieger contributed to its survival. This emigration led to a wavelike Germanistion of the surrounding territories, from Scandinavia to the Thüringer Wald and in the west to river Rhine, where the upcoming power of the Roman Empire led to a delay by four centuries. So Roman historians, probably from reports of traders and voyagers, passed on that the name Germanics is a new one. The British Isles were captured only after the fall of the Roman Empire, and to the east the populous Baltic tribes bordered the expansion.
Geographically the main waterway north-south leads upstream river Peene via Demmin in the middle of its northern third to the watershed at Klocksin, where there are only 5 km to bridge overland. The following cataract of small lakes opens into the Müritz at Jabel, the name of which also is Semitic. There the route branches out: Directly to the south we arrive at the Kleine Müritz and lake Nebel(see), wherefrom one has to master an overland passage to Flecken Zechlin in the headwater of river Rhin. For sure this eastern variant was uneconomical, hence second choice or even less. The main route, however, turns to the west near Jabel into lake Fleesensee and ends the second half at the village Twietfort on the southern tip of lake Plauer Sees. From there a hollow way starts the second overland passage, thereafter travering a heathland to river Stepenitz. Downstream this river opens into river Elbe, starting the last third. This main variant encountered three archeological interesting settlements – south to north
the Ahrensberg ( no excavations yet ), a mountain overseeing the overland route from Twietfort to Stpenitz across the heathland,
the city in the floodplain forest on the western bank of lake Flacher See (unsought),
the huge site two miles westwestnorth of the landing in Klocksin (unsought) - on the highest top of the watershed, which oversees the passage from the Müritz into the basin of river Peene.
Due to numerous place names along this route to be understood from Semitic we date these sites into the era of the megalith-culture, i.e. in the time span between 4200 and 1800 bChr, the city in the floodplain forest being overbuilt in early Middle Age.
a channel through the watershed ? cows sheep hardwheat apples on bord ? ☛ this dervation of the names Klocksin and Stuer are a triumph for the Davis-Pokorny-Vennemann- theory of a megalithic wandering by ship around Western Europe ☜
loose ends of Wagnerian dimension: (Lang) hagen (see) Nebel (see) Troja Rhin and an unclear dating of the Sigurd and Nibelungen sagas and the twilight of the gods
The Land between the Five Lakes
is horseshoelike open to the south. It is the today so-called Land Between the 5 Lakes Müritz, Kölpin-, Fleesen-, Petersdorfer and Krakower See. Certainly it plays s strategic role in defending the main waterway from the Baltic across the watershed into the valley of river Elbe. Attacks from here could have destroyed the Mecklenburg Empire of the megalithc Vanir, thus making the later riches of the prince of Seddin - and hence the Germanic language in the first place - impossible. Here there are place names of military-strategic nature to expect, perhaps only later made sounding Slavic. Indeed it is surrounded by barrages. Four fifth of these are natural - i.e. lakes - but against the south this amounts to a further terrific construction work of the Megalithicians of the north. Commencing in the bay at Sietow there is a glacial threshold of steep slopes, lakes, moors and wetlands till the village of Darze, which 6000 years ago must have been even wetter and more impenetrable than today.
is situated north of this threshold such that there must have been a log causeway passing the moor and the two inselbergs, unvisible for strangers. With the help of which rallies out to the south were possible. At an eastern narrow, presumably close to the modern windmill, there could have been a further defense site or guardian troop. South of lake Gliensee in this swampy threshold there is a megalithic tomb on top of an elevation, previously visible from afar. With a stone cover and sculls on posts this must have been an impressing deterrence against attacks from the south. To the north of the lake there is a so-called Schälchestein, which may have served the horrid production of these sculls. ☟ After some 20 kilometers this belt of swamps ends in the lowland of river Elde, today drained, to the south of
( this place name exists more often, for instance to the west ). Nearby the place name Knüppeldamm ≡ log causeway only makes sense, if that area then was more densely populated than today. ☝ Close to the central point of this Land Between the 5 Lakes is
a likely place where to site the guardian troop. We cannot put an, at times even permanent, troop past the Megalithicians of the north. South of this point of crest there only is one lonely megalithic tomb - far to the south north of Wredenhagen. This one is completly surrounded by swamps and can be arrived at only from the north. Hence it must have been an outpost in unfriendly territory. ☝ North of Walow
is the presumptive headquarter of the military leadership of the megalithic Vanir from Malchow. ☟ Directly behind the presumptive battlefield at this defense rampart the village
Rogeez
⭮
rak k i z
≡
concentrating
near this ,Limes'
[B&H p 350]
is a candidate for the concentration of troups and reserves. ☛ In between the village
is placed on the connecting line between Groß Kelle and Rogeez. ☝ Contrary to this has the village - compare the view from the sea to that one onto Somerset and onto the Samland -
on the western bank of the Müritz no strategical but only a (convincing) geographical bearing, because the megalithic tomb and the presumably adjacent megalithic settlement are situated exactly here at the southern end of the high section of the bank of the Müritz. North of the western part of the Limfjord we also find the village Semb, the name of which may be connected to a shifting sand dune. This in turn matches the name of the town Hvidbjerg, situated only one km from Semb - i.e. the same name in two different languages at the same place ❗
☝
Given that this land between the five lakes was crucial for defending the main north-south trading route via Klocksin, Malchow and Seddin, there must be Semit(di)ic derivations of most pre-German place names. Hence there remains to understand this way Leizen at the line of defense and in the hinterland Lexow. This blockade, together with Walow, Groß Kelle and Darze integrates into the geostrategic picture perfectly, however, does not completely close the horseshoe of the land between the five lakes, which is open to the south. Being seafarer the megalithic Vanir also took advantage of the inland waterways, thus withstanding Indo-European assaults from the south. In Darze - and actually only there - pressure from the early urnfield people could become dangerous to the central soft spot of the Peene-Stepenitz-Elbe waterway - Malchow. Whence we have to expect an artificial blockade exactly from Stuer to Darze: Exactly here there is another Schwedenschanze so called on local tabloids and maps of trails. For being a Landwehr it is far too laborious. It runs from the lowland at river Elde south of the village Darze towards Stuer and abruptly ends at a ground wave, parallel to the modern overland road with a length of 4 km. At the most vulnerable spot the fortification consists of four parallel walls, which carried at least a base of stones. On the northern side there are two circular areas, the stones of which obviously are remains - perhaps ruins - of fortified compounds. There are no masoned walls anywhere here. Therefore this site is far too laborious to be built in the historical era. Several oak trees on the walls likely were planted more than 500 years ago. This region was (relatively) densely populated only during the megalithic era, When iron substituted bronze there were at least three waves of emigration. The site has nothing to do with Swedes, who may have been there at most during the Swedish wars - and also nothing with the 15th century, when the area was populated only thinly. North of the gap by nowadays overland road from Darze to Altenhof there is a chain of four megalithic grave mounds, perpendicular to this fortification. No coincidence but psychological warefare against smaller groups of attackers - if these mounds are flagged with human skulls. Conquering this line they are forced to march along the wall - a clavicula posiiion in which the right shoulder is exposed to the defenders. At the end of the fortification they find the defenders in an elevated position, and behind the ground wave the archers remained invisible to the raiders. To the west of the ground wave the defensive fortification continues till Stuer, where it might have reached the lake south of todays moated castle. A branch to the north commences at the large castle and leads in a stretched curve to this moated castle in the lake, but being less laboriously constructed than the main part of this blockade. This large scale strategic situation is similar to that one of the battle of the bulge of the second world war.
In front of this ground wave there might have taken place a battle, in which the Megalithicians of the north - the Vanir - successfully fought off the Indo-Europeans of the south - the Asir. At least this success of the local defenders is mirrored in the world of Germanic sagas. There is a tale of several battles, which may have taken place down to the Gnitterberg, 25 km to the south. This elevation then may have been the hillock of the commander of the attackers, since it is protected to the north by steeps.
There is a striking cluster of megalithic tombs along this artifical blockade - even more so most of the stones fell victim to later construction of houses, roads and here also of a railway line. Nevertheless we ask whether these are the tombs of megalithic leaders killed in action on this battlefield. Every cleverly devised if any barricade finally will be overrun by permanent pressure of scores of attackers. Except if diplomacy can prevent this. Exactly this didn't happen at river Elbe but succeeded at river Stepenitz. In the Prignitz the Megalithicians of the north were able to establish a borderland under the rule of a powerful dynasty of Indo-Europeans of the urnfield-culture - which led to a merging of the two peoples and to the genesis of the Germanic language.
securing the main megalithic trading route in Mecklenburg and Pomerania
by
well-thought-out defencesive fortifications
and a
battle of the bulge Ragnarök
River Stepenitz − the Centerpiece of the Tin Route
The principal center of this, during the Bronze Age dense population, mixed out of *Vasconic, megalithic ( from Scandinavia ) and Indo-European ( of the northern urnfield-culture ) and still bell beaker people, should have been located since the first Indo-European immigration to the time of the prince of Seddin not far of his tumulus. The actual excavators assume it west of river Stepenitz, or directly at the outlet of river Dömnitz into river Stepenitz [ M&H ], or
3 km further to the east in the forest south of a horseshoe bend of river Dömnitz,
which mistakenly is called Schwedenschanze ≡ Swedish entrenchment [ MH11 ]: Some 8 km west of the town of Pritzwalk on the southern bank of river Dömnitz, which up to here still is navigable for scows, there is an oval ring wall, the diameters of which are a little less than 200 and 170 m. Between river Dömnitz and an old alley east of the hamlet Horst, which ends in a forest track, this a little uneven site lies in a sinuosity of this small river - south of the modern biogas plant on the northern bank - such that the river gives protection from two sides. In addition the bluff is enhanced by a wall with two gates. On the opposite side there only is one gate, which proves the importance of the riverside. The southern gate to river Dömnitz is a wrong Clavicula gate, which hints a lack of security need in this direction. The wall which protects the site to the southern open country is of double height, with a filled in (?) trench in front of. A little more than 100 m from there there is another wall which cuts off in an arc the river bank, with another gate. But the flat area to the east also is protected by trenches, where probably the ordinary population had their homes. In front of the main gate there is a 1.50 m square well, whose sides are made of stones - a filled in deep-well groundwater recharge ? The area of the main site roughly is three hectare, the area inside the walls is somewhat larger [MH11]. Together with the glacis in front and the whole area protected from high tides south of the forest track, the area is more than ten hectare. Its name ? We assume that it was - Mecklenburg: Since the Schwedenschanze, being the center of a borderland, is situated at the southern border of the megalith-culture, and this name reflects a place rather than an area. The administrative change to Brandenburg from Mecklenburg occured much later in the historic era, like in the Slavic era that one of Pomerania. Only then it became the name of the whole megalithic area south of the Baltic. The Viking name of Byzantium Miklagard also refers to its situation ma+q i bly ≡ far in the south. On a prong downstream river Dömnitz there is a small pile of erratic boulders, protected by a nearly totally filled in trench - more likely a sentinel than a megalithic tomb. 50 m to the east of this town there is an astonishing cone, 5 m high, looking like a small copy of the tomb of the prince of Seddin. However, it is too well preserved to be such old. South of the forest track there also are walls and trenches. These places are naturally protected too since here the river Dömnitz splits into three creeks. Since the drainage area of this river is relatively large the danger of high tides is considerably eased. Whence - did here prehistoric water architects dig long trenches? An obviously artificial trench with at least two throngs from the river protects the southern edge of the wood, the digging of which being used for an, in sections high dyke. Even a once a century high tide would have no chance to flood this area in the woods. Together with the wet meadows in front there possibly was a huge water expense, protecting the whole dwelling area. At the eastern tip of this dyke there is an outlet between two erratic boulders, visibly a gate, leading to a road to the east, which still can be followed through the meadows and the following forest. At the end of which this road passes by two stone sites, likely a large and a small house, the arrangement of which indicates a road junction towards the south, i.e. towards Kuhsdorf. This part of the road, however, only is short because this part is distorted by still existing de-waterings. Dyke and trench are maintained of late. Since such an effort hardly suits for the protection of a simple forest and high tides are directed towards the villages Kuhbier and Horst, there also must have been dwellings south of the forest track. Two hemicircle trenches on the inner bank of the southern channel should have protected two houses. The mightiness of this fortified site corresponds to that one of tomb of the prince of Seddin on the western bank of river Stepenitz, the trisection to the quartering of the graves on the dune, 2 km to the west of the Teufelsberg. It considerably surpasses that ones of two similar contemporary sites: the eastern one at the Pagelsee south of the spring of river Havel, the western one located on the peninsula in the Neu pritz er See ( another Schwedenschanze, erring name, but the lake's name a further reflection of the name of the megalithic people ) - both roughly 55 km as the crow flies apart, one northnorthwestwards, the other northeastwards ( in an equilateral triangle - but there may be more ring walls ). Therefore this likely has been a residency of the prince of Seddin, hence everything being dated into the 9th millenium bChr. To the west of this ring wall, up to the outlet of river Kümmernitz, there are more sites - besides the excavated ones around the tomb of the prince of Seddin on the western bank of river Stepenitz - located on its eastern bank:
1.5 km east of the Teufelsberg and 1 km southwest of the big ring wall Schwedenschanze there is a water castle in a floodplain forest. In the south it is protected by a small lake, in the west and north by wo deep trenches, and on the fourth side by a wall arrangement with big erratic blocks still in situ. Smaller stones probably were used in Horst for construction purposes.
Possibly this water castle has been center of a much larger but later settlement, still to be seen in the fields. In the west it is defined by a still in use de-watering trench, continued along southwards of the field path from the water castle by a trench filled up by herbs, ending in a small forest. To the east it is defined only by the difference in altitude between two fields, hence probably a trench, fulfilled by later day's agriculture. In the forest east of the field path from Horst it still exists and is deeply cut in, but still de-watering underneath. Following the bend to the north it continues visibly to river Dömnitz, the arc of which being the northern border of this settlement. Perhaps even the square, defined by river Kümmernitz, a northern tributary of river Dömnitz, was a quarter of this settlement.
On the northern bank of river Dömnitz there is a deep 25 times 20 m rectangle so full of reed, that it is spared of today's agriculture. It is too broad to be a de-waterinng trench - it is an inner harbor. Even today the water-level of river Dömnitz suffices for scows.
Halfway between Teufelsberg and Schwedenschanze, at the eastern end of today's forest, there is a triangular entrenchment, and there is a second one in the isolated piece of forest 700 m to the east. Southwards they are marked by partly still existing stone walls out of erratic blocks and smaller pebble stones, to the west by filled in ditches in the forest and to the north by partly filled in, but still visible trenches connecting to river Dömnitz. In the forest to the west there is a V-shaped trench, too well preserved to be such old. For sure it did not serve de-watering, since it connects two elevations, the northern one of which steeply above river Dömnitz with a descent to the river - probably a landing. A similar, circular landing can be found on the river Stepenitz halfway between Wolfshagen and Telschow - on its eastern bank with the soil so hardened that there is no more vegetation. There are no more sites in the whole area on the southern bank of the river, even opposite the small inner harbor. Those stones at the southern edge of the forest north of the water castle look like rubblestones. The whole area being settled during the era of the prince Hinz of Seddin, its huge size corresponding to that one of Celtic Manching on river Donau. The name of the settlement around the Schwedenschanze should have been Kubra, that one of the whole borderland ma+q i b ly which in German tongue became Kuhbier and Mecklenburg resp. .
At the outlet of river Dömnitz into river Stepenitz the northern steep bank is moored by a stone setting. Since a path does not make sense in this direction, the adjacent field in the north may have been that settlement, which the archeologists are looking for. However, from here to the Mühlenberg in the northern forest there are no traces of a settlement. In contrast there is on the eastern side, halfway between Stepenitz and Kümmernitz, in a small forest south of Helle a partly preserved stone wall, certainly no megalithic tomb or rubblestones, with deep ponds in the north, i.e. a protection for the whole square, defined on three sides by the creeks.
The Weiße Berg, i.e. the White Mountain, northeastwards of Perleberg is 80 m high, steeply falling off on all sides. There are no walls on top, but its huge plain on the top excludes natural causes. Like at the Schwedenschanze one reckognises gate sites, leading down to river Dömnitz resp. river Stepenitz. Whereas the Schwedenschanze oversees boat traffic, this mountain oversees a road across the end of the Krohnsberge moraine. Without excavations, there much less costly than at the Schwedenschanze, it is difficult to date. Since there are no brick-built walls, for sure it is Pre-German.
We locate this western variant of the amber road from the Alps to the Baltic, resp. a tin road from the Erzgebirge to Scandinavia, exactly here, i.e. via rivers Elbe, Stepenitz and Peene, with a dense population at the tomb of Seddin, to today's cloister / convent Marienfließ. East thereof the trickle Stepenitz no longer is navigable. At the convent, in the middle of a floodplain forest we assume the pond to have been a little harbor for going ashore. Compare the ponds of the Fossa Carolina, these, however, much later, at Höbing ( the name reflects the function, which we also know at river Lippe ) in the Franconian county (Landkreis) of Roth [ Lie p 329 ]. Upstream from Telschow the river Stepenitz no longer is navigable, even not with scows. However, possibly the whole floodplain forest ahead of the outlet of river Stepenitz from the hill land into the floodplain of river Elbe has been a long trough lake of the kind of the 30 km northwards lake Kritzow or at least a cataract of smaller lakes. This may have included the area at the outlets of rivers Kümmernitz and Dömnitz and their valleys, today with plenty of reed, and the valley of river Stepenitz upstream till the cloister. This extended trough lake then was navigable with scows. In addition there is a straight and dry road from Telschow to the village Stepenitz, which shortens the water way, say from the last barrier of stones in the river ( how many? up to the first one the river was navigable up to some years ago ) or from the circular treeless place on the high river bank south of today's concrete bridge in the floodplain forest, halfway between Telschow and Stepenitz. This amounts to a narrow passage south of the outlet of river Dömnitz, a wicket, comparable to that which is described in [ MH11 ] at the outlet of river Stepenitz from the hill land into the valley of river Elbe, and even comparable to that one at Granzin south of the source of river Havel. The city museum of Perleberg exhibits a logboat of more than 3 m length from the 16th century. Even if it originates in the modern age, it proves that such boats, still existing in prehistoric times, were able to carry huge loads. [MH11] maps more find spots. The time scale then is as follows: In a first step after the Indo-Éuropean arrival north-south trade at this interface of the Scandinavian-Mecklenburgian megalith culture, the northern bronze time culture, and the Indo-European urnfield-culture created an agglomeration of power. This culminated after and because of the emigration of large parts of the urnfield-culture at (1250) bChr in all directions, leading to the prince of Seddin. Then here the Germanic language came into being as an urnfield creolisation under a megalithic superstrat. Trade in all directions led to an expansion in all directions, especially the Scandinavian megalith-culture and the Börden around the Harz mountains. i.e. one center of the urnfield-culture, at the same time. When the north-south traffic declined because of the transition from bronze to iron, terminating the agglomeration of power at this river, fertile floodplain meadows for livestock farming became more important. The barrage at the outlet of the trough lake into river Stepenitz, in [MH11] called Pforte, could be removed without much effort, and this trough lake also fell dry. The sea ground became today's floodplain forests and - meadows. The places with reed today offer the best chances for archeological discoveries, for instance out of datable wood. With the exit of the early Germanics centuries later, this time the Skirii, towards the Black Sea and the final wasting of the trading routes, some 200 years after, a need for downsizing came into being. Inside this large settlement only the terraces on river Dömnitz remained in use, protected by today no longer visible walls and still visible trenches. With the renewed depopulation by the Germanic invasions into the falling Roman empire, this time Lombardians, Semnonics and Warnians, there only remained the central water castle. Whether it was used in the Slavic era remains open. In the German era it probably was transferred to Wolfshagen. If the British-Scandinavian megalith culture, together with its language, swang southwards till the Prignitz, and there became dominant, there must be place names to reflect this:
Pritz+walk, some 10 km to the east, which name also can be found near Greifswald and on the island of Rügen [ Gra p 22 ], is megalithic / Semit(id)ic from pretan ≡ t i n, like in Britain [ Ven p 733 ], and p+l+g ≡ divide ⭯ folk [Ven p 665], hence meaning the t i n fo l k s. Has Pritzwalk been a staple market for tin and amber, somewhat off the main trading route? Instead of an unconvincing Slavic wolf, invented much later by folk-etymology. Or possibly this name moved from the Schwedenschanze eastwards, when the trade terminated at the upcoming iron age, when tin from the Erzgebirge no longer was needed?
Vogel [ Vog ] tries many Slavic etymologies, but Graf [Gra] discards most of which. Deriving Kümmernitz is easy on the first sight, since Slavic midges can be felt painfully there, also above all since at the upper river behind Jakobsdorf there is a Mücken+busch, meaning midge+bush [Vog 35]. From this one concludes that in the Slavic era the whole area has become wet lands and forest and the inhabitants only used the ring wall if at all. But exactly this is the drawback of this etymology: Up to the era of the prince of Seddin this area was densely populated with presumably a lake at the outlet of this creek, i.e. there were no more midges as anywhere else. Above all the creek Kümmernitz discharges into the river Dömnitz behind a 90° bend. Brunner has a common Semitic-Indo-European word [ Bru 154. ], Latin camur ≡ curved corresponding to Akkadian kamâsu ≡ to bend and Hebrew kafaf with the same translation. Hence Mückenwasser becomes an early folk-etymology. For the etymology of Dömnitz one has to notice that beautiful is not appropiate for a river, which has be tamed by complex water construction and artificial laterals. The derivation from Oldpolabian oaks is more convincing, at least demonstrating once more that in the Slavic era the forest has taken back the ring wall. The first written record of 1358 Doven+itz also allows for a Germanic / German derivation, since it also occurs north of Hamburg in a non-Slavic area. Since all this does not convince we try Sumerian, this fitting exactly into this neighborhood. And then there are the trickles Sude, Zieskenbach, Kemnitz ( sounds Slavic ) and Els+baek [ Gra p 48 ], two of which clearly German.
The etymology of Stepenitz is doubtfull also. First of all this village name occurs at the upper end of this river instead near Perleberg or even at its outlet. This votes for the people to invent this name coming from the north which in turn votes for a megalithic name, this being a main trading route [ MH11 ], the urnfield people coming from the south. So a Semiti(di)c name is more likely than an Indo-European one, the most unlikely one being a Slavic name - referring to branches, twigs, pieces of wood, which might have been transported by floods or rafts - but also at the head water near the village Stepenitz ?
Graf [ Gra p 42 ] lists three more derivations, for instance from Oldpolabic stairs, which would fit if the river Stepenitz would have been a cataract of small artificial ponds. However, this must be proved by excavations.
Contrary to Graf the derivation from common Indo-European ( also Basque, but also Semitic ?) steppe is more likely - if one assumes a long-distance trading route across the dry landscape to lake Plau, the southern end of which we locate in the village Stepenitz.
As common Semitic-Indo-European solution Brunner [ 902. ] offers *teib from Hebrew path, way ( steif ≡ stiff ). In Greek this still has the meaning to tread down, to trespass. This fits exactly to this location, and the difficulty with initial s is solved by assuming that an initially Semitic word became Indo-European and after remained stable over all changes of the population.
These possible etymologies for Stepenitz are ordered according to rising probability.
Brunner [423.] ( also compare [424.] ) has the additional variant *teb without diphtong ( German stapfen ), Ugarithic path.
Remark: Brunner's following example [425.] hits Vennemann's [ Ven p 490 ] derivation of the river name Thames. Remark: Thus this river name is *Vasconised and Stepenitz is Slavic-made Semit(id)ic.
Pritz+ word particles cluster in the place names of the Prignitz. In Pritz+ir the traffic situation is unclear, especially concerning trading tin for amber, but a fortiori in Pritz+erbe [ Qaf p 420 ] it is clearer: Still today there is a double crossing with a ring wall, on the one hand in north-south direction across the narrowness between modern lake Havel and river Havel, perhaps originally a long causeway, on the other hand in eastwest direction crossing the lower Havel, this being here already broad and still today a ferry. Brunner has German Ufer as common Semitic-Indo-European [ Bru 342. ] - but if this would be meant, this place name would have developped to nowadays Ufer instead. [Bru 338.] again here has a more special meaning: Aramaeic abara ≡ to wade, to swim fits in here exactly, as do Akkadian ebêru ≡ the opposite shore and Arabic ˁubūr ≡ to wade [ Whr p 808 ]. It is clear that here has been an emporium ( for tin ) at a fording, which still can be seen between the buildings. However, for this we have to assume that the German tin resources, say in the Erzgebirge, then already were known and were exploited, and were easier to handle than those of Cornwall. For sure this was the case during the cold season. Semitic +erbe also is a Sumerian loanword bal.ri ≡ opposite shore [ Ppl 1 p 32 ] wherefrom Hungarian to the left results.
Even more striking is the place name Kuhbier, besides Horst a village nearest to the ring wall on the way east to Pritzwalk: Arabic kubra ≡ storage (yard), freeport as a place name also occurs in the delta of the Nile in Egypt ! This fits exactly to the traffic situation, decribed in [ MH11] and the resulting richness of that area and of Hinz, the prince of Seddin.
Kuhs+dorf should have been the central sacred site of this area during meagalithic times and perhaps even to the Slavic era. To be seen from far it may have been located on the flat elevation south to today's church amidst fields in use. There was a built in passage tomb some 100 m to the south. It contains no rubblestones, which still litter the surrounding fields. Here there is a free view to the ring wall in the north, to the tomb cone of the prince of Seddin in the west, to the tomb hills in the forest above Bullendorf in the east and in the south to the Krohnsberge range, 2 km from there. Clearly this sacred site also may have been located below today's church or any place up to the ascending slope in the south. There is a another Kuhs+torf north of Pritzier. Kuhs+ ⭮ Kurdes+ in the first written record [ Vog p 35 ] can have been a pious malapropism of a monkish scribe, who at the time of s → r did not tolerate a heathen issue ( and invented Hinz and Kunz thereby ). Since there were priestesses associated to this sacred site, and megalithic priestesses behaved totally unchristianly [ Ven ], he conversed this issue and translated the word rein ≡ unadulterated into Greek by naming the hill under this sacred site Sophien+berg [ Gra p 56 ] after the christian saint of goodness. This name, however, no longer is known locally. Also r is not asserted in this villages name.
Thise altogether hence also gives the possibility to understand the name Sedd+in, sometimes written with initial Z instead [ Seg p 101 ], Semit(id)ically: Arabic +sed ≡ righteous makes it to look like the place of a whole dynasty, Hebrew Sadducee also fits herein. As always we doubt a derivation from the personal name,here Zadok - assuming the converse direction of derivation. Note that there was a procession street excavated besides the tomb. The second particle +in of this name not only is Slavic but also Semitic. An etymology like that of the village south of Berlin from Slavic fluid does not fit here because Seddin is situated 1 km west of river Stepenitz on a dry elevation. Semitic sanhedrin ≡ assembly is a possible etymology too - and even is to be preferred, if further excavations at the tomb, say at one end of this procession street, would prove that.
Bull+en+dorf at the first sight sounds like coming with the first German settlers in the early Middle Ages. However, this hilly area of deep forests is not suited for cattle breeding at all. Hence this naming is unlikely. Above all, the excavations at the Teufelsberg showed the coexistence of four different grave rituals, meaning a survival of four different population groups. Since above this village there are two tomb cones it makes sense to pull up *Vasconic bolo ≡ cone, like in Southern Germany. Assuming that these two tomb cones were built around 1000 bChr, one concludes that even 1000 years after the arrival of the Indo-Europeans in Europe still a *Vasconic population existed, differing from the other three population groups and still speaking their old language. This then would also explain the *Vasconic name of the Ahrensberg, halfway between the village Stepenitz and lake Plau. However, a megalithic derivation also is possible, assuming a sacred site of the god Baal above Bullendorf. This later at the era of the prince of Seddin led to the large tomb cone and a smaller one, comparable to that one east of the Schwedenschanze.
Lugg+en+dorf to the west, still today hidden deeply in the forest, has a nice derivation from Arabic luğū' ≡ safe haven ( in a country ) [Whr p 1143], if the pressure of the invading Indo-Europeans of the urnield culture from the south would have led to a withdrawal to the flat land north of the Krohnsberge hills - until they finally set up a military borderland, with which they feoffed a dynamic Indo-European leader from the south.
In order to justify this pure we assume that the proper name of the megalith culture or at least that one of their leading class has been the pure, holy ones ≡ al quds - compare with the city name al-Quds, hence Jerusalem in Arabic [ Whr p 1006 ]. Also Indo-European *kuhen has the meaning to celebrate, hallow [ Bru 703. ], and in Semitic priest, mystery, to forebode. Besides Kuhs dorf and Sophien berg there is a third argument for this proper name. Some (600) years after the prince of Seddin the Skirii become the first Germanic tribe to be recorded in history. They leave their homes and migrate together with the Bastarnae towards the Black Sea. Usually the Skirii are supposed to be the pure ones, the Bastarnae to be the mixed ones. Following Brunner, there is a summarising diagram of three place names without common Semitic-Indo-European
and only one with such an etymology, Kuhsdorf ( the double arrow denotes a semantic plus a morphologic derivation ). North of the field path from Bullendorf to Giesendorf there are a walled site and water trenches, and north of the isolated quarry a circular trench - perhaps around a no longer existing water castle. The near piece of wood to the north also is protected by a deep trench. It continues in northern direction as a - in the beginning broad - stone wall, which seems to be a wall to shield a whole area to the east, less being a street. Rising slightly it continues straight to the north, afterwards to northnortheast up to a modern aisle by railway tracks and a recent road. Its eastern branch continues up to the hamlet Schönhagener Mühle on river Dömnitz. Its length is 5 to 7 km - view Google Maps.
Astonishing - this wall is one of the largest prehistoric construction sites in Northern Germany❗
Next to the north there is a funnel, the walls of which consist of rubblestones - a cisterne? 50 m further north two stone piles and two giant - obviously at the same day planted - oak trees mark a 10 m broad gate. This gate points to the highest spot of the Sophienberg exactly to the west, where we therefore assume this sacred site. To the east a hedge bank comes straigt down from an elevation, which is totally different from this big wall. Its stones are rubblestones from the adjacent fields - probably from later times. It looks like an ancient hollow way being in use a long time. But it hits the big wall only some 10 m to the north of the gate. So it must not be contemporary or this being some kind of strategy? The difference of this hedge bank and the big wall supports its interpretation as a hollow way to the sacred site, and that one of the big wall as a fortification.
Further to the north the trench mostly runs east of the big wall, i.e. it protects against the east. Here and there it even is divided in two parts, with a path in between. North of the road between Giesen- nach Kuhsdorf it rises slightly towards the highest spot, after bending to northnortheast - probably to include two older megalith-tombs. Because of the flat capstones the bigger one clearly is a grave. At least at two locations the stones still are grouted, meaning the stones are not rubblestones.
Further to the north the big wall bifurcates, the western - presumably the older - part soon ending at river Dömnitz. North of the old road from Kuhbier to Pritzwalk the eastern branch of the big wall again rises. Here it is interrupted since its stones were used to plaster the adjacent old road to the Schönhagener Mühle. That is why a third gate may have been annihilated. The sheer length of this big wall asks for such a third gate. At one point there is a giant conelike rubblestone included, three sides of which clearly are flattened artificially. Clearly this big wall is a backstop, especially of the ring wall Schwedenschanze, but also has a peculiarity, only known from the much later Romans. It is situated in open fields, which even rise slightly to the east, meaning that it does not use advantages of the ground. Those are shown in the form of sudden break-offs in the maps of May and Hauptmann [MH11]. Whence it is targeted offensively urging attackers to line up unhindered in front of this wall. The terrain is breaking off only further to the east, forming an obstacle in the back of attackers. Bad luck for those if they actually were using this open terrain. This strategy, which the Romans enforced by setting up rectangular forts, is another indication for the assumption that Venetians and Italics were migrating over the Alps from the eastern and western borders of the urnfield-culture [ Sch ]. The analysis is easy. Together with river Dömnitz to the north, river Stepenitz in the west and the Krohnsberge range in the south, en end moraine from river Stepenitz south of Lübzow via the Weissen Berg till close to Pritzwalk, this stonewall with a length of more than 5 km length makes the enclosed area to a large-scale fortification with an - in this early era - huge concentration of power. Since the volume of this big wall exceeds that one of the tomb of the prince of Seddin by multiple times, its logistic time and effort of this construction an be estimated. Mobs of lansquenets in the Middle Ages, Germans of the early east colonisation, western Slavs and even Germanics after tha emigration of Bastarnae and Skirii are unlikely to achieve something like that. And whereto ? Walls make borders, the converse being an exception. Stone sites are representative for the megalith-culture. This gives rise to relate this big wall to this culture - to protect the sacred site on the Sophienberg and the ring wall in the loop of river Dömnitz against the invading Indo-Europeans from the south. Whence these sites are contemporary, whereas the tomb of Seddin is dated (200) years later by the excavators [ MH11 ]. The locals won this fight, compare Ragnarøk - the twilight of the gods - perhaps even because of this big wall. However, this still has to be identified in the world of Germanic sagas. Analogy: In the battle of Conerow at river Tollense the local defenders hold their ground too. Later the peoples got used to each other and mixed up. The declining megalith-culture accepted people from the northern part of the urnfield-culture into this borderland, who contrary to their southern brothers did not participate in the second Indo-European migration. Eventually they became populous enough to overtake the power. (200) years after the prince of Seddin a mixed people had come into being. During this melting process the northern dialect of the urnfield-culture, which before already did absorb a considerable larger amount of *Vasconic than its eastern, southern and western parts, developed a creolisation of the Semiti(di)c language of the megalith-culture, i.e. Proto-Germanic. In a first step the Börden around the Harz mountains were integrated, in a second one, presumably at the same time, all areas south of the Baltic, and only in a third step then all territories up to river Weser, and after till river Rhine. Then even Scandinavia was included.
The Prignitz has even more - stiking - possible Semit(id)ic-megalithic place names:
The hamlet Karthan on river Karthane, also called der Karthan, another Carthage, for instance, together with
the creek Ceder+bach, [ Blu Zeder ] Hebrew q∧t∧r ≡ fumigate - cedarwood was used to fumigate. Somewhere around there must have been a smokehouse, like the still existing one at the Plattenburg. However, Platten burg itself has the excellent Slavic etymology point of payment [ Vog p 41 ].
This encourages to understand the village Mell+en from a Semit(id)ic point of view, i.e. to assume in the megalithic tomb a king, Arabic m∧l∧k ≡ king. Actually therein a final k is lacking, which would result in the name Melch +en instead. Alternatively Arabic muhalla ≡ great also is close, which could refer to the prince inside or the tomb itself. At any rate
the Indo-Europeans at (3000) bChr did not yet, or at most only did arrive in small groups in central Europe, i.e. the megalithic people and the *Vasconic people, the giants and witches, must have been neighbors in central and Western Europe. Given that it might have occured that a giant was buried like a megalithic leader, hence the local legend of the burial of a giant being true.
To begin with Helle on the east and Hellburg on the west bank of river Stepenitz have a Germanic derivation:
They usually are backtraced to the Germanic goddess Hel of death- who is no Vanir, but three quarters a giantess, being expatriated after having rosed before - untypically - to a goddess. Hence did people locate the entrance to the realm of the death exactly here, after the bronze trade came to an end, and the settlement lost its importance because of the Germanics leaving to all directions. Later this area totally emptied when the remaining tribes ventured towards the Roman empire, like Asgard did to Rügen as Sagard ? In this context revealing is that the short form Hinz of Heinrich in German also is the figure Gevatter Hein, meaning the death. Hence did there something happen which associates this place with something mystic ?
However, thinking megalithic, hence much earlier: Arabic / Hebrew kala+/ kele ≡ jail has the Indo-European equivalent kel+ ≡ hide, conceal [ Blu Hoelle ].
Has the deep trench south of Helle something to do with that? Hence with something awfull which later led the Germanics to locate the gate to hell here? Which was forgotten in the Slavic era because of the change in religion !
For the place name Per l e+berg Brunner also has an entry [ 43. ] - our word flat, flach not only is relative to latin pla + nus but also to Akkadian palku ≡ wide, broad, dispersed [ P&W ] and to Hebrew palas ≡ (to) flatten, equalize. Travelling from the north by boat along river Stepenitz downstream across this portal [ MH11 ] one arrives in a vast plain. The town is situated right south of the end moraine in this plain on an island between two river arms. Whence it was a post on the long-distance trading route between the center of Germany, say tin mining in the Saxonian-Bohemian Erzgebirge and Scandinavia. In additian this name should come from the language of the north. Both arguments fit better than a derivation from Slavic limehuts [ Vog p 41 ] since at that time such huts were everywhere and hence didn't fit for naming. The creek Perle then simply is creek into the plain - compare Berlin.
Quitz+öbel in the valley of river Elbe also is Semit(id)ic. Its second silble is a variant of +erbe, the name hence meaning tribes name + crossing, similar to Frankfurt. However, the numerous floods make it impossible to locate this crossing archeologically. Usually +öbel is translated as +hövel ≡ +hill badly since the latest flood has shown that there is no hill nearby.
Whence the name of the Qu i t z+ows, lest the Slavic suffix, is Semit(id)ic. They not only were (are) a family but also the megalithic cleric nobility, being unable to survive the numerous changes of population and religion perfectly by siding with the new powers. There are sagas of nightly gatherings [ Opl p 63 ], i.e. conspiracies. The loss of power took place stealthily - like that one of the empire of Kröv, i.e. the Kröver Reich - till they finally and impertinently were ousted in 1990. Their so-called robber-knighthood was nothing else but a fight against an ongoing loss of power and creeping ouster. They passed this fight down generations. Clearly after such many emigrations they all were mutually relatives of each other. Symptomatically they were well off in Kuhsdorf [ Gra p 37 ], which presumably was their power center.
The typical Semitic dichotomy of clerical and secular gentry, for instance Phariseans and Sadduceans of the New Testament, leads to a further secular one, the Ascanians, who came towards the Harz mountains with the southern expansion of the early Germanics. Their name hasn't been properly explained thus far. A derivation from a personal name principally isn't trustworthy, the converse derivation being more likely. Semitic š ∧ q ∧ l ≡ important, grave, meaning powerful, looks like the title of a prince. The (secular) Ascanians were considerably more successful during all population changes and the rise into the Germanic and finally German Reich nobility than the (clerical) Quitzows, as in the Svabian areas the * Vasconic Hohenzollern
Therefore we can assume, that also the Ascanians were descendants of the prince of Seddin,
↓ who were the leaders of the expansion to the south into the - just emptied - central area of the urnfield-culture, but long before the first recorded Ascanian prince, from whom usually this name is derived −
simultanously
↑ Scandinavia became Germanic, like the Norman conquest of England after the battle of Hastings. Whether forcefully by raids or peacefully remains open - like always for any assumption there are several alternatives −
← the route to the west led to the Jastorf-culture - given that this culture hasn't yet been that one of Seddin [ Kei Abb 7 ] - and later to rivers Weser and Rhine, where only few early Italics were left behind to become the Weser-Rhine group of the Germanics −
→ the route to the east ended at river Vistula, to the east of which Baltic tribes decelerated the expansion. Whether and when the Skirii came into being, who after (200) bChr emigrated towards the Black Sea, remains open as well. Presumably they were part of from the beginning. The bronze cauldron of Herzberg is a hint for this expansion. It comes from the same workshop as that one in the tomb of the prince of Seddin. The hillfort on the eastern bank of lake Pagel may be interpreted as a gate, but also that one of Kratzeburg or that one south of Pieverstorf.
All three resp. four expansions took place already with the new mixed language - Proto-Germanic. How fast such a language change can run off is known from the Nestor chronicle, the history of the Ruriks in Russia. This model explains Udolph's localisation of the Proto-Germanics in the fertile lowlands around the Harz mountains, the Börden, together with Vennemann's concept of Proto-Germanic as an Indo-European creolisstion of the megalitic-Semiti(di)c superstrat.
Aschersleben therefore corresponds to Askalon in Palestine, summarised
Aschersleben is a candidate for the center of the Germanics after their genesis and first expansion from Seddin, this being annihilated by the invention of iron. In this diagram three times a special property is used for naming and only once in Kuhbier the special use of the place. This makes it possible to derive the name Scandinavia in the same way. With the restriction that mahal ≡ mighty, powerful is Semitic, Indo-European, especially Hindi, and *Vasconic, there without initial m. The castle Mal+berg north of Kröv on river Mosel has this word in its first written record. This restriction also holds for the word Steppe. Whence both may be common Swadesh-words.
For the Krohn+s+berge range Brunner has the common Semitic and Indo-European root ker+(e)+n , which also has the meaning summit [ Bru 186. ]. This fits well because one can see its highest point from afar. However, also (Oldenglish) crāwe(s) ≡ ɣurab [ B&H p 619 ] here are frequent. When later the old language no longer was understood it developed folk-etymologically to crane(s)+mountains [ Gra p 55 ], which are not as common here. In the middle of this range of end moraines the road Groß Gottschow - Rambow - Krampfer crosses this range, which according to Seger is legendary [ Seg p 169 ] and a way of the cross, meaning an high age.
Almost in the middle of the end moraine range from west to east there is Guhls+s+dorf, where today the country road cuts through this range. Vogel [ Vog p 29 ] traces this name back into Pre-Slavic Oldgerman guôtlich ≡ splendid. Still older is [Bru 199.] (s)kel ≡ scull tracing this back to the megalith-culture, hence into Semit(id)ic. Sculls hanging on gates are possible but only rarely recorded. Therefore qeleu ≡ to wander fits better [Bru 200.] to its location in the middle of the mountain range and hence to the main route across. Guhlsdorf is an ideal place for a guard-house, say at the war memorial, where we also assume the Mörrer- resp. Mörder-hill fort [Seg p 64]. Compare this to the geo-strategy on the Weisse Berg at the main road from Pritzwalk to Perleberg in the west. Contrary to there here in the middle of the range the ground falls off smoothlier to the south than to the north, like also in Simonshagen in between. In Guhlsdorf a modern ramp bridges a steep decline to the north. Whence to the south we expect fortified farm houses, in a fertile plain, shielded to the north against cold weather, protecting to the south against the pressure of the invading Indo-Europeans - most of them below modern villages and big farm houses. So the megalithic borderland had its southern border somewhere in this plain, a bottleneck for the invaders. This led the megalithic people to install the borderland around the Mecklenburg, i.e. Seddin, to be feoffed to a capable Indo-European from the northern urnfield-culture. His dynasty eventually rose to great power from the trade amber for bronze along river Stepenitz.
We find the street name Am Jahl in Guhlsdorf - here also the field name Gohl - and in Perleberg. There it possibly describes a settlement on a small hill outside the main fortified settlement on an island of the river Stepenitz, hence for strangers not to be trusted. Jahl sounds like Semiti(di)c heathen / ignoramus, a disqualifying characterisation for Indo-Europeans.
It is tempting to relate the name of the hamlet Pr i tzi er at the state road also to tin and perhaps even to copper [ Ven Kap 22 ]. But here nothing votes for the two metals - without archeological troves, say a hoard, this remains questionable !
To the south we find Prött l i n without a Slavic s, which therefore is closest to the Semit(id)ic word for tin. It must be seen in the context of the near megalithic king's tomb at Mellen. Exactly here near Lenzen the megalithic area surpasses the watershed to the south till river Elbe, to the west thereof even towards the Harz mountains.
Preddöh l ← Predule [1318] gives rise to think of tin. Since the first part of this name is common in the Prignitz, as seen above, we conclude that here like on the British Isles it became the proper name of the people of the megalith-culture. In Britain this name survived several changes of the population. We think that there even existed a common national identity in Britain, Scandinavia and Mecklenburg. The two confronting peoples would then be the tin people and the heathen / the settling down and cramping people, i.e. the British and the Germanics ! For the second part of the name Hebrew derek ≡ way, road [ Bru 384. ] is possible, referring to the all-season dry road from Kuhbier or Pritzwalk to Twietfort, wherefrom the continuation is by boat to the north. Alternatively Akkadian adâru ≡ gutter waterway [Bru 13.] refers to river Kümmernitz, which because of its huge drainage basin dangerously swells during thunderstorms. German and Slavic Tal ≡ valley also fit in, given that Preddöhl oversees the here depressed river Kümmernitz.
Pr i tzlava is the passed on name of a castle and the location of a battle close to river Elde near Quitzöbel, in which the local Westslavic Bretzaner / Pretzaner in the year 1056 crushed the invading Saxons / Germans such that the German east colonisation was delayed by more than 100 years. This name likely is the name of a victorious nation plus Slavic slava ≡ fame, glory, since the second part fame makes the first one likely as the name of a nation, compare the etymology of Breslau and that one of Rosslau below.
In visual range of a prehistoric crossing river Elbe there is Lenzen on river Löcknitz, first mentioned before the year 1000 as Lunk i n i, which should have been an important place at the southern border of the megalith-culture. Hence
fits geo-strategically, at least if omitting the enforcing prefix. And the river name Löckn+i tz should be a Slavisation with the meaning the river at Lunk i n i.
The name of the whole area Pr i g+n+i tz also has a possible megalithic etymology ( in [ Gra p 46 ] Graf tries Slavic ) - from Semiti(di)c folk ⭮ p + l + h ≡ divide. However, this does not work as natural as for +walk, because it needs l → r and h → g, and above all hits the challenge, that from one root there developed several place names. Therefore we try the proper name of the urnfield-culture Brieger, which survived all changes of he population to become the name of the WestSlavic Bretzaner, who supplied an addional +i tz. Since this suffix means water, the Prignitz, however, is considerably less watery that its neighboring areas, this ansatz also remains a challenge.
Prz i tkov and Pr i (e)sten at the southern slope of the Bohemian Erzgebirge also have such tin place names. They fall in this class since the most probable tin mining area in Germany is the Erzgebirge range south of today's Altenberg and Ehrenfriedersdorf. However, an archeological proof still is lacking. There even are two water ways to the Prignitz, the direct northern one along the river Mulde being uncomfortable, the southern one to Aussig on river Elbe cutting through the Erzgebirge mountains at the pittoresk breakthrough at the Bohemian-Saxonian border. That is why there must be settlements along river Elbe from the Bronze Age, i.e. dating in the era of the prince of Seddin. Both Bohemian pretan-localities look like settlements of privileged minorities, becoming rich by tin transport and trade. Since usually over the centuries not only political power but also transport and trade assemble in the hands of a few families there even must have been dynasties like much later the Fugger and Welser of Augsburg. But power and wealth came to an abrupt end when iron substituted bronze. Tin mining declined and was only reopened during the Middle Ages and the upcoming of coins. However, an old saga indicates a passing on of age-old *Vasconic knowledge:
When three brothers got poor a good-natured giant gave away a path to Zinnwald's tin.
Once more the saga associates giants and miners and leaves to the nordic Bronze Age only an underpart. Sadly the name of the giant is not passed down. Only after the word zechen ≡ to quaff should have been transferred to mining - as name for a trade union of miners to meet for drinking together. This sort of Zeche in turn can be traced back to Basque zor ≡ guilt [ Rub zor ], which results together with zorrak+estal i ≡ to pay [ Rub begleichen, bedecken ] in an explanation of this otherwise unexplainable word [ KS Zeche ].
The fact that these etymologies work - and reveal some parts of history - means, that these sites already were named in the megalith-era and passed their names down over several changes of population and language. Clearly each time they got shifted to the new tongue. In the Slavic case the roots simply got new pre- and suffixes, which then were overtaken by the medieval Germans. When later a language no longer was understood, automatically there arouse the impression that words must come from the language just died out. This leads to doubtfull folk-etymologies and disputes, as can be seen in the works of Vogel [ Vog 1904 ] and Graf [ Gra 1957 ]. All that holds correspondingly in Scandinavia and Britain. From Stepenitz / Marienfließ there is a dry forest track via Retzow and Ganzlin to the southern end of lake Plau,
where the late little harbor in Bad Stuer presumably overbuilds an older one, compare the short channel at the northern end of lake Flacher See south of Klocksin.
Alternatively the little harbor with a sandy beach at Twietfort is closer to arrive at on a still existing hill track, which close to Twietfort ends in a steeply declining hollow way - this being densely edged on both sides in the Ganzliner Holz forest by numerous impressing megalith sites, still in use and perhaps already looted in the later Bronze Age [ Rnn p 122 ].
The whole forest track from Marienfließ to lake Plau is edged on both sides by megalithic sites, hence this area was densely populated during the megalithic era. Only if the water level would have been higher than today river Stepenitz would have been navigable upriver the cloister without costly water constructions. How dry this forest track is follows from its soon becoming heath after the military use stoppage of late. The track passes mount Ahrendsberg south of Klein Damerow, having had a settlement on top: Widely visible its height is 89 m, nearly a square, flat on top with a cisterne, it is covered with impenetrable maquis on a thick layer of stones. Are there two gates, the western one looking like a clavicula gate ? The name of this mountain is a valley ≡ aran −name [ Ven p 838 ], with a suffix +antz meaning similarity, or +rantz ≡ in direction of. Hence the overseas trade route runs over a saddle between mount Ahrendsberg and a nameless, hardly visible mountain 3 km to the east, supposed to be 83 m high. The boat trip to the Baltic continues via lake Plau, lake Petersdorf, towards the east lake Fleesensee, then turning north to the water divide as described here. The long waterway from the mouth of river Peene to river Elbe in Bohemia or river Saale to Thüringia, hence - apart from very short carry arounds - only has two tracks ove land, the 15 km at lake Plau and the even shorter one at Klocksin, both dry over the whole year, and both protected by a fortification - the large site northwest of Klocksin exactly on the water divide and the Ahrensberg. We assume both also as having been treasuries. Both fortifications are contemporary [ Ke i p 9 ]. Moreover to the east there is a second parallel threshold of fortifications ( danger threatens from the east !), see the revealing Abb 12 by Herfert in [Ke i ] ( after Jochen Brandt ). Flanking sites in Basedow and Griebenow also were protections of this route. Hence the eastern threshold consists of Görne, Gühlen-Glienicke, Kratzeburg, Rühlow and Jägerhof. This line should also have served to close alternative trading routes to focus trade to Seddin. Around Kratzeburg there even are three fortifications of the Bronze Age, and in the south in addition sites at Pieverstorf and the eastern bay of lake Pagel. For sure to the genesis of the Germanics in this area around the ring wall on river Dömnitz
the relatively, compared to the open Börden around the Harz mountains, unalluring environment of sandy hills, moors, dense forests and swamps - compare this to the geographicl isolation of the three northern kingdoms of Spain, which resisted the Moorish conquest and started the reconquista to end up in the kingdom of Kastilia -
the impenetrability besides this singled out waterway along river Stepenitz, which in most parts was made navigable for small boats [ M&H ], essential for the north-south traffic,
plus trading amber for bronze, being essential for the rise of a buffer state,
and not only playing off neigboring great powers
have contributed. The genesis of the Germanic language from a northern dialect of the Indo-European urnfield-culture with a *Vasconic substrat and a Smiti(di)c superstrat led to a closer relationship of Germanc to Italic than of Germanic to Celtic, because according to Udolph Celtic developped far west beyond river Rhone. Typically for the megalith-culture is a sophisticated stone culture, typically for the urnfield-culture is a sophisticated metal culture. Their difference in religion - Vanir and Asir plus the *Vasconic giants - was described by T. Vennemann [ Ven ] convincingly. The borderland marked by rivers Stepenitz and Dömnitz, the Krohnsberge hills end moraine and the big wall in the east for sure was megalithic, given the numerous megalithic sites strewn around the agricultural center from Dannhof to Kuhsdorf:
🪤North of Dannhof the river Panke was dammed up to a lake, the stone structures on the northern bank of which being more likely graves or buildings than clearance cairns. This also holds for for the stone structures on both sides between Wolfshagen and Groß Pankow, following the left hand cobblestone road till the 60 m high elevation. Looking at all this as buildings we get we get an etymology for this agricultural center at the dammed lake: Hans Wehr [ Whr ]
Dann+
⭮
d ī wān
≡
council, court of law, chancellary
[p 420]
makes this place a possible prehistoric, regional metropolis. This name seems to be another doubling in Semiti(di)c and ? - which in turn also indicates that Dannhof was more than a simple farmhouse. Then the etymology of
🪤Retzin, somewhat to the west,
Retz+in
⭮
rāș i d / rașad+i n
≡
guard, watchdog, scout
[p 476]
fits in too, the suffix +in taken for Semit(id)ic instead of Slavic. Consider also
Retz+in
⭮
rušd+i n
≡
the orthodox ones
[p 473]
,
especially when the enfeoffment of a military borderland to an Indo-European led to resettlements, or already earlier with the Drang nach Norden of the urnfield people led to withdrawals across the end moraine into the safe haven center of this borderland, as in the case of Luggendorf. The orthodox ones then would be the Semiti(di)c supporters of the megalithic religion.
Retz+in
⭮
rads+i n
≡
to burnish + people
[p 464]
,
is a further possibility. Since this area is dry,
Retz+
⭮
radm / radm ī yāt
≡
to fill / bank up
[p 465]
,
does not fit here unlike in the marchy plain tracts flanking the rivers Randow and Oder far to the east.
🪤Retzow near Ganzlin to the north of the village Stepenitz probably must be looked at in the context of the huge hill site on the Ahrensberg close by. Guards therefore are as likely as a Slavic Ra t i s, which is indicated by the Slavic suffix +ow.
🪤Gottschow, 1245 first mentioned as Gatzk+awe, which clearly can be derived from a German Gottschalk, settling among Slavs. However, this would be a late naming. Semiti(di)c
is much earlier and therefore more likely. Close to the holy Kuhsdorf a second holy place is not likely. Therefore if so, a small temple or even an lonely eremit will do, say on the line of heights north of Simonshagen.
leads to the genesis of the Germanics around 800 bChr the city of king Hinz is the Ur-Kuhbier, the Schwedenschanze approximately 8 km west of Pritzwalk on the southern shore of the river Dömnitz - well preseved - in the forest without the light forest of beeches and a stockade on top of the walls this construction must have given impressing sights from all sides the locations, especially those of the metals, must be exploited,
the flow of trade is clear three präehistoric large scale plants:
pyramid ringfort section wall
in the north of the Prignitz the linguistic trichotomy
corresponds exactly
to that of the Germanic mythology and the excavation results from the Teufelsberg
The River Elbe − the Tin Route
and an early Siegfried line
Such laborious defense sites as those ones protecting the 5 lakes horseshoe country and the two treasure sites at Klocksin and the Ahrensberg only make sense because there was a trading route from the Baltic across the watershed and upstrem river Elbe to the mining areas in the Erzgebirge mountains. Which produced the riches of the Vanir and in turn attracted the Asir. For sure mining was *Vasconic, trading amber for metals megalithic. Whence we have to look for Semitic place names also from the spout of river Stepenitz to Aussig in Bohemia, given that the megalith-culture along river Elbe to the south archeologically is well-known [ Kae p 11]. This archeology plus the following etymologies plus the genetic conclusions [ M…W ] for the northwards oriented river basins deliver three components of a Müller-Hirt-diagram. Hence along these rivers we expect similar names, especially for neighboring ones like rivers Elbe, Oder and Weichsel. However, for the fourth component - mythology - we see no chance of any conclusion - too many changes of populations.
there are discoveries from this early megalithic era. In addition Magdeburg with its rock on a western riverbank, on which much later the dome was erected, is an ideal starting point for skipping up and down river Elbe. The first and third line of the table
literally letter by letter describe the discoverings of the archeological excavations at Maiden Castle in Dorset, in sight of the Channel !
Educated guesses ❓ 🏺 Excavations on the hill Maiden Castle in Durham north of river Wear would reveal the same for the earliest use. 🎗 Staffordshire's knot-symbol is a step by step simplification of the megalithic labyrinth, the first step being a flatted version on Middle Age wristbands, the second step being on memorial stones engraved double knots, and the third step being a reduction to the nowerdays simple knot. 🥓 The engravings on the rounded rocks in front of the hill New Grange in Ireland are in later times misunderstood pictures of labyrinths. 𑇪 Thus - Staffordshire explains the frequent closed loops of Germanic art.
Given this etymology for Magdeburg there should be more megalithic ones north of the Elbsandstein mountain gap :
Bries(+witz Pieschen Pester(+witz
⭮
≡
the tin people
at cut banks of river Elbe mmmmn- || - at a geological joint
are megalithic-semiti(di)c instead of non-convincing Slavic etymologies. There are several reasons for that: The center of Dresden also is situated on top of cut bank, more flood proof as Altdresden across the river, which, because of flooding, only could serve as a temporary staple market in summer. A naming from Slavic swamp and Russian swinging ground, say on a moor from Dresden to Cuxhafen always would be appropriate - hence is no information. Exactly to the west of the center of Dresden there is Gorb+ i tz ≡ west+water, translated however, from two different languages. Assuming an early naming, we have to conclude a long and innermost contact of those. The strongest arguement though is - the place name Dresden exists also in Stoke-upon-Trent in Staffordshire, a megalithic area which never was Slavic - calculate the probability that 7 letters out of 24 coincide. This gives rise to the assumption, that also in Mercia downstream from Dresden on river Trent there was a place name with the etymology of Magde burg, to fill up a commutative diagram. This region since (4000) bChr till the Romans was considerably populated, which is shown by numerous archeological troves: Three Iron Age dugouts and a spoke wheel vote for active traffic - by boat on the river, the main connection from the Irish Sea to the North Sea on the one hand, on the other on a north-south route over land. Therefore we derive the Rid-names along river Trent not from Celtic but from Semitic-megalithic r i d ⭮ r i ṣad ≡ rest, break, halt - consonants in the midst of a word often are rubbed off. Resting places alongside rivers often lie at fords. Aside from river Leen through Nottingham there are more places with such namea.
☝ Meißen halfway between Magdeburg and Dresden since the German east colonisation of the early Middle Age is the central place of the Mark Meißen, the historically correct name of todays Land Sachsen, like todays Brandenburg historically correct is a Mark and not a Land.
applies even better, given that one of the first names of this city was Misuna. However, the important role of Meißen in German history not only is due to its location at the river, but predominantly to the much later German east colonisation - leading from Magdeburg in a southern arrow via Görlitz and Breslau till Krakau, in a northern one via Berlin, Frankfurt and Posen till Gnesen. We attribute the same etymology to Manchester in the midlands - among the first written records mamuc+ium, manuc+unio. There a fortification protecting the waterway from the coast near Liverpool via Sheffield to river Humber makes sense. Not only both place names but also the topographies of Meißen and Manchester - castle - river - stream - are remarkably congruent. This is a typical Semitic name for a fortification, as shows Almazán on the upper river Duero and so far inland the Iberian peninsula, that it is more likely of Moorish Middle Age origin in date and location. Between these locations there must have been a chain of stations of megalithic skippers and merchants, the most obvious ones given by the Pr i tz-names Pratt+au south of Wittenberg, further upstream Pretz+sch and in
Pr i tt + i n - literally means (the) t i n people, as in Br i ta i n ,
behind the sharp bend of the river. Besides Magde burg and Dresden this is the fourth name with the same morphology and semantic along river Elbe and in England. Just as well fits Ros+slau because of the extreme horseshoe resp. peninsular bend of river Elbe, raz ≡ headland explains the first syllable, the well-known slavonization glory, fame the second, if not at all assuming a name like Ros lagen in Sweden, i.e. deriving German +lau directly from Semitic +retreat, without a detour via Slavic. At river Elbe we find the same morphology as in Breslau at river Oder, at river Elbe still megalithic, at river Oder already Indo-European. In addition surely Ros lagen in Sweden and Roslá i r at the southwest corner of Ireland never have been Slavic.
Given that we have to clarify whether the local Walternienburg-culture, falling exactly in the era of the megalith-culture and located around Roslau, has its roots in the Prignitz around Klocksin on the watershed, in Denmark and Sweden or even in Britain. We associate this culture with the megalith-culture of the north, whereas the Bernburg-culture, centered somewhat to the west, is *Vasconic with, however, a heavy megalithic influence.
No wonder therefore that along river Elbe there is a diagram
Maiden (+Castle
∼
Magde (+burg
Br i t a i n
∼
Pr i t t i n
Dresden
∼
Dresden
Manch (+ester
∼
Meißen
of surprisingly coinciding names and place names, wherein Han(n)over also would fit - which, however, is situated somewhat off the valley of river Elbe, the route to tin. Manchester / Meissen even is one corner of the diagram
Manch (+ester
Meiss (+en
⭮
minsaan
≡
protected
Sal (+ford
Zsche i la
⭮
sahl
≡
plain, flat
of adjacent, geographical complementary locations on the opposite riverside. Moreover Salford merges with Ker+sal ⭮ qara+sahl ≡ settling+plain - i.e. the plain with the settlements. There remains - central to that section of river Elbe -
Torg (+au
⭮
t i:ʤa:ra
≡
trade
at a characteristic trading post
[internettranslation]
together with the two towns Torgelow in Pomerania and Torshak in Russia. Swedish and parts of German in the north even keep the usual Arabic pronunciation of the letter ʤ = ğ , after mirrowing the root. We reject the usual Slavic etymology of these four locations: torg in fact is not German but Germanic - Swedish and Norwegian torg means central trading post or simply market. Hence this expression must have traveled from Germanic to Slavic and not vice versa, in Pomerania and Russia perhaps even later with the Swedish Vikings, the Ruriks. At river Elbe it therefore must have been Germanic or even - earlier - megalithic, since it would have been a miracle if that central emporium wouldn't have served trading along and across river Elbe. Whence the diagram of the two Arabic words for
trade
≡
sana عa
⭯
Hansa, Seine, Île de Sein
≡
t i:ʤa:ra
⭯
Torg(+au, Torg(+elow, Torsh(+ak
leads to the conclusion that the historic Hansa had a megalithic ancestor which also traded along river Elbe. We cannot expect to find this a Scandinavian place name, at least not in single form. ⇓ But across the North Sea on the coast of Devon, it is tempting to add
although there is a well-established history of its quite modern foundation. If so one has to assume that the founding fathers used a still existing field name, a Sumerian loan still in use in early proto-Semitic. Note that [Kluge] assumes the word quay only as west-Indo-European. Also across the North Sea, at the historical divide or at times even border between Northern and Southern England, there is
Tork (+sey
⭮
t i:ʤa:ra
≡
trade
at a large peninsula
south of river Trent. The difficulty here is the second sillable, which for sure came by with the Viking army, garrisoning there in the early Middle Age. So the first sillable may have come by at the same time too, which can be excluded only by the context, which could be the - hitherto unexplained - etymology of the rivername
with the Semitic plural +at augmented. To whirl would be another fit, since only modern a flood barrier protects the river from high tides. In history it several times changed its bed and during floodings destroyed many bridges. Here at the historical divide between the northern and southern parts of England
Notting (+ham
⭮
n i ṭ āq
≡
enclosure, limit, border, ring, area, (administrative) district
still today is a local center at the crossing of roads - thus omitting the invention of a much too late Anglo-Saxon or even Viking Snotti. The striking etymologies
Sher (+wood
⭮
ħ i r ʃ
≡
wood (+wood
a doubling which only needs ⇄
[internettranslation]
Hood
⭮
ħa:da, i
≡
(to) dissent, digress
one early version even is Hode
[internettranslation]
give rise to transfer the tale of Robin Hood backwards in time
- like we do with the Nibelungen lied and the Idomeneo-part of the Ilias - from the era of Richard Lionheart not only to the era of the Norman conquest but much earlier to the invasion of the first Indo-Europeans to England, the Brigantes and Venetians, overtaking England from the Megalithicians. So Robin Hood was a megalithic rebel, trying to defend the old rule❗
in Northhumberland, as mentioned in the first written Anglo-Saxon records. This derivation also competes with a Viking one, a place with a lake ( which doesn't exist ) or a moor ( which may have been there ). But this would amount to a larger linguistic distance than our Semitic one. ⇑ We discard the usual Slavic etymology of those four German towns: torg is not German but Germanic - in Swedish and Norwegian it is a central place of trade or simplier a market.
lies inmidth of lowlands on a slight elevation. Today river Elbe is protected by high dykes against the frequent floodings which make live difficult also in
further north too. So this may have been a settlement of Bandkeramik fishermen together with some Megalithicians. So no wonder that we also find *Vasconic place names like
close by - a straightforward etymology meaning that the Bandkeramik people already had developed a romantic relationship with their river, loosely Old Man River . At a nearby higher place archeologists excavated the woodhenge of Pömmelte giving rise to the comparison with
Woodhenge near Stonehenge obviously is the earlier wooden model for the construction of stone circles. This ended at Pömmelte because of the Indo-European invasion but is a further clue for the megalithic colonisation from England upstream river Elbe. We know that such a model for Stonehenge existed in Western Wales at a place where some of its blue standing stones do come from.
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Needless to say that the waterway to the south doesn't end in Aussig but continues via Prag and Budweis to the Danube basin, since the main customers of amber settle around the Mediterranian −
amber versus tin can the special role of Germanic as part of Indo-European be explained geographically ? the city of king Hinz is the ur-Kuhbier, located some 8 km west of Pritzwalk on the southern shore of river Dömnitz - still highly visible - in a forest − the Mecklenburg without the clear forest of beeches and together with a stockade on the walls this site should have imposed an impressive sight from all sides the find spots, especially of metals, still have to be located,
the trade flows being clearer thee pre-historic huge sites:
tomb cones, a hillfort a sectional wall
on the northern edge of the Prignitz the linguistic tripartition corresponds exactly to the Germanic mythology and the archeological evidence at the Teufelsberg
River Elbe and German East-Elbien
even the name Elbe and the names of the four decisive aereas have a - convincing - megalithic derivation❗
− where for the first entry we also have to mention that in a very early Scandinavian edition of the Nibelungenlied Brynhild comes from a land Suava and the Romans called the Baltic the Suebian Sea, − the second entry comes from a common Semitic-Indo-European term [ KS Zaum ], the semantic neighborhood of which also contains zumla ≡ community, zumra, zumar ≡ group of people and zam i l ≡ companion [ Whr pp 529-530 ]. Possibly the name Svea, as opposed to Sweden, also developed from here − the first and the third entry still are in use today. So going back to the megalithic era and language all three notions mean the same❗ and may have come into being at different times. 🐮 The easy to defend southern border of the megalithicians we find in
Mecklenb +urg
⭯
(ma+) q i b l y ...
≡
(very much in the) south ...
also in the Maltese wind rose, and compare Ma+ghreb
south of the Baltic Sea, resp. at its southern border. Here again the early medieval etymology is much to late. Also, the usually supposed, but not referred to place is much to small to satisfy large - contrary to the really large Byzanz ≡ Miklagard. We assume that the Schwedenschanze north of the hamlet Horst a few miles west of Pritzwalk had this name, because it is situated in the very southern part of the megalithic area in northern Germany. Since this notion for the wind rose also is used in Maltese, it remains to identify it in more western and northern European regions, neighboring a megalithic area. The first recorded Nakon+i d is passed down to have been a rich ruler of the Slavic Abodrites - Arabic nu ' qu : d ≡ money [internettranslation]. Even the personalising +i d corresponds to a Semitic suffix, as shows the example captain ≡ qa: ʔ i d, itself a Semitic loan or a wanderword ? Mecklenburg's symbol is the ox-head, cristian ridicule of a Semitic bull's-head symbol, as for the Merovingians. 🦅 Further south the name of the Mark Brandenburg comes into sight. Like in Mecklenburg the addition of +burg and +d+ should be due to the medieval incoming of the Germans and the sound shift to High German - lacking in earlier Low German and in intermediate Slavic. So
Brand╱ +en
⭮
barraan i ba r i-i i n
≡ ≡
exterior, (e)strange foreigners (plural!)
south of the Seddin borderland
[ Qaf p 37 p 35 ]
outline convincingly a root for the name of the assaulting Indo-Europeans given by the local megalithic defenders. Since this word also denotes a stranger in Maltese it remains to identify it sometimes in Western Europe, adjacent to some definitely megalithic area. Further to the south 🐎
Saxony, Saxons
⭮
sakāru
≡
blocking, damming, keep- ing from, shutting down
also a strategic name, r → s
[ P&W p 97 ]
indicates, that only the outcome of the Nibelungensaga resulted in a final breakthrough of the victorious Indo-Europeans through the defence at the Elbe-line.
The (old)-Norse name Sax e l f r for river Elbe unifies two meanings to ≡ the line of defence − against the invasion from the east of the huns ≡ the Indo-Europeans .
herefrom becomes the capital Susa of the ,Huns' in the Nibelungenlied, which we assume near the grave mound of Leubingen, the grave of Etzel / Atli / Attila. The open plain around votes for an incoming horse people. The name Sachsen / Saxons then would not originate from a medieval sound shift of the German drang nach Osten, but much earlier and simultaneously for the line of defence along the valley of river Elbe. Later, when the whole are became Germanic speaking, both names migrated to the west even up to Westfalia.
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Existence −
north
Mecklenb
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west≀
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Brandenb
∼
Sachsen
south
Uniqueness − this does not work with dictionaries of any other language (group)
A Landmark Ruling Route to the South
from river Nebel or lake Nebelsee via Troja and river Rhin to the country of the Huns. The river Rhin sharply bends at Zippelsförde to the west, heading straightly to the lower course of river Havel, hence towards river Elbe. But a map in the internet shows instead a sudden crease to the east towards the upper river Havel in the opposite direction, which no longer exists. In this broad lowland the name Rhin also occurs. Possibly at the era of the first settlements only this eastern arm existed, the western one being created later by exreme floodings. Then originally river Havel only would have been a tributary and the river Rhin much longer than today.
poses the question of the relation of the Burgundians to near by Bornhom, a secure center of the Megalithicians, but with the must of a special guard in the exposed areas south of the Baltic. Over time - compare Japan's Samurai - it developed to a whole folk, which much later gave its name to an entire region of France. Do the Burgundians originate in the palace guards of a prince of the type of the - 1000 years later - prince Hinz of Seddin? The Nibelungs can have been a leading dynasty of this troupe, later tribe, their name deriving from their fiefdom somewhere around lake Nebelsee.
Thence the oldest root of Bur also may be derived from Assyrian, read barû ≡ (to) check through, scrutinize, look at thoroughly, percevere or bāru ≡ (to) be firm [P&W p 14] or bâru ≡ (to) catch enemies [BGP p 39] ❗
☟ There is a direct overland route from Hagen's Troja to river Rhin at lake
Assyrian root being tuāru ≡ (to) turn into, convert, transform [P&W p 125], for the letter n alternatively Assyrian ēnu ≡ spring, well [p 25] also makes sense ❗
commencing a waterway to the south and further across lake
Roch⸻ (+ow+see
⭮
ru kn
≡
corner, angle
which surprisingly accurately describes the geography there
[ internettanslation ]
and a sharp switchback from northeast to south into lake
G i esen+ schlag (+see
⭮
kanaz ġarraq
≡ ≡
hoard sinking
long stretched, with three narrows, one towards an often swampy sidearm
− use l ← r and compare with the mirrowing of letters in Hinz of Seddin,
Assyrian root of the first part of the name being kannuŝu ≡ (to) gather, collect [ P&W p 45 ] ( whence ganūnu ≡ treasury [p 30] ) and of the second part šalû ≡ (to) immerse, submerge, plunge under water, dive [p 110], with obvious ˆ ↔ g ❗
and from now on directly south via lake Krummer See till today's hamlet Neumühle. This being a likely place of a water barrage - only cut through in modern times by the construction of a mill - the whole gutter waterway would have appeared originally as a river - the river Rhin, a succession of lengthy lakes with narrows in between, compare river Havel in Berlin. Thus the names of three lakes derive trom their geometry - the Nebel-, the Rochow- and the small Krumme See to the south. To the west of lake Giesenschlag there is a short tributary which surely is a petered out branch of this lake. To the west on an elevation there is a place without vegetation, indicating an ancient settlement, overlooking this lake. Probably this was the first settlement here, later moved one km south to
- another typical Germanic and hence Semiti(di)c name. Vis-á-vis on the eastern shore of lake Giesenschlag commences a hollow way, up to 3 m deep and some 150 m long, leading via some, today landed up ponds into a branch of lake Labus - the shortest portage between lake Müritz and river Rhin. It runs between two nearly 20 m higher hills, and we infer that it was filled up by erosion - up to a degree that today only one person can pass at a time. It also protects the northern hill, perhaps place of an early settlement, in sight of the opposite Schönblick setlement. All three locations bar this waterway strategically. 1 km north of the hollow way we find a stone structure at a deep place, which because of its oval form more likely is a megalithic tomb than a pile of pebble stones from the fields. ☜ Considerably far-off to the west from this chain of lakes north-south-waterway is
- another example of a name, sounding neither Slavic nor Germanic. Compare this remote location ( and this translation ) with that one of Stuer. Somewhat to the north and at the likewise off-road of the chain of lakes
is another example of a geographical-motivated place name. The dark hollow way from here through a sandy range to the north should date much later. ☟ Inside lake Rheinsberg there is a ringwall on the island of
- for sure a secure and attractive location in any era. Here we have to assume very early megalithic colonies and a survival of Sumerian suffixes in the Assyrian language. But it is difficult to decide which of the two translations is more likely − it is halfway between the Freundschaftsinsel in Potsdam and the Liebesinsel in Mirow. The first derivation can be enlightened by
- but a place of executions should have led to legends and perhaps even to traditions. Lhande also has the synonyme version lagoŕ i. ☟ At the outpouring of river Rhin into a trough - which at times should have been a lake, this being indicated by förde in its name, the translations waterfall and catarakt, however, being a little exaggerated - is
- wherefrom this river earlier was directed eastwards into river Havel and westwards into today's direction westwards only after a huge flooding.
Aramaic z ī qu ≡ cataract, rapids [P&W] may also explain the name Zech+ow, since between Rheinsberg and Zippelsförde the river Rhin in sections is such stony that boats have be portaged.
☟ In Berlin, at a narrow of river Havel, which originally may have been the Rhin, there is
- and because of the lakes around there likely was an early Bandkeramik-*Vasconic settlement at this narrow. The expansion of the megalithicians along the waterways made this place a suitable stop over. As a protection of this waterway it was fortified, a little off this route by a ringwall on an 20 m high elevation [ Sh9 ] with a 6 m high wood-soil-stone wall - which must have been an impressing look. Akkadian
Sacr(+ow
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asra ᒼ zaqāru, saqāru z i qqurratu
≡ ≡ ≡
faster (to build very) high zigurat, temple tower
same semantics, but k → ᒼ morphology morphologically similar to Basque, but archeologically not verified
delivers a further surprise - semantically and morphologically. This hill fort was burnt down, probably by attacking Indo-Europeans on their raid north. It is dated before 1000 b Chr. ☟
nuq ŧ a
≡
(stop) point
related morphology but dif-
[ internettranslation ]
Nuthe
⭮
nādu
≡
waterskin ≡ ∼schlauch
ferent Semitic semantics
Assyr. [P&W], [BGP]
nad i
≡
branch, bifurcation
*Vasc. [ Lha p 763 ]
and opposite to its entry into today's river Havel or perhaps the earlier river Rhin.
The Assyrian root may have been only the second naming, the first being a Bandkeramik one. Only during the later Nibelung's era it has taken over the role of a meeting point for traveling southwards. Surprisingly the name schlauch appears in this area, today Emstalerschlauch, historically Swine taler schlauch, which corresponds to the bright red copper beeches - see below at Bechlaren - exactly.
Pot+mmn sdam
⭮
p i t t u+mmn mmnsadru
≡ ≡
ambit + regularly occurring
fitting nicely to the control- and mee- ⸻ting point of the Nibelungenlied
with more fitting etymologies: Say saddam ≡ opponent - at this node point at the tributary Nuthe. However, ŝatammu ≡ administrator [p 113] or even simplier ŝeṭu ≡ (to) spread [p 115] are likelier for this a location. This also holds for Spiro's translation ṣadam ≡ (to) dash (against), collide , see [ Sp i p 257 ]. A Bell Beaker grave near the barracks of the Prussian Garde du Corps indicates a node point of a very old river and road network. The southern branch towards Saxonia was secured along river Nuthe by the four Nuthe-castles, which today do not exist any longer but were well-known to the poetrist Theodor Fontane. ☟ Only *Vasconic, because being located beyond the waterway along river Nuthe and therefore not of importance for the megalith-culture people,
Ge l t+ow ← Gel i t i
⭮
ge l d i +tu ge l d i+arte
≡ ≡
stop, to rest stop + at the
on the way westwards to Gülpe
[ Lha p 350 ]
Surrounded by swamps, today dried out but still marshy areas, and in the floodplains of rivers Elbe, Rhin and Havel, the hill
is protected against three geographical directions. Only to the west it is not cut off by steep scarps. The plateau on top (59 m) in this direction is secured by a deep trench, for sure artificial, which should have served as a hurdling for cattle in times of unrest. But there is no site which could be dated into the megalithic era and it is located far south of the megalithic area. The name of the village and leke
Gülpe
⭮
gal lab
≡
to change to
typical Arabic
[WBS p 393]
also describes this alternative waterway towards the south, which, however, because of the tremendous detour Rhin-Havel-Spree never was competitive. These three places on a west-east strategic inner line should have served the lockout of competition and smuggling. ☝ There are nearly fully consistent etymologies of
- i.e. for the start and the end of the Nibelung's travel towards the huns - a strong argument for this historical interpretation of the Nibelungenlied. In both cases this should not be proper - but typical bynames, which later have been Germanized. Alberich's evil features are a typical *Vasconic strategy to survive as a substrat, whereas Rüdiger should have been an Indo-European or an megalithician in, however, a *Vasconic embossed borderland. Clearly Alberich's name also can be a *Vasconic byname, motivated by the location of this treasury near a brim - the existence of which is crucial for this thought - south of the considerably lower basin of river Peene.
Hence this basin may be the Nederland of Sigurd / Siegfried. Which in turn leads to the search for a location, which was transfered to Xant +en by the much later bard of the Nibelungenlied. Can it be Sand → Rand (+ow) near Demmin at the two Meanders of river Peene? Given that one of the first medieval sources writes Xanten with an initial S instead, and that s → r is a non-trivial but frequent and late sound shift, the bard may have used this to transfer the area from one which was unavailable at his era to a well-known to the audience one. Not every detail of this story necessarily is a legend of some historical stuff - some may be added by the poet. A candidate for this is Sigurd's boyhood, i.e. the story with M i m i r, the dwarf and blacksmith, i.e. being *Vasconic. Because of the close similarity of sanad ≡ prop, support with sandān ≡ anv i l [ WrC p 434 ] this may have led the poet to enrich the story to feature-length. This perhaps is a clue that the story, i.e. history first was told in the megalithic language. The geographical situation implies that Sigurd's first discovery of the world led him north to meet Brynhild in Seegard - which clearly identifies with Sagard on the island of Rügen in the land Suava, the land of the Swebians - this being told in the original, nordic version of the Nibelungenlied. The medieval poet used the phonetic similarity of German E i l and ( meaning island ) and Iceland to transfer this part of the story far to the north, which at his era was newly discovered and therefore well-known to everybody. So he was able to insert Iceland's volcanos as Ring of Fire. At the time of the arrival of the Indo-Europeans at the Elbe-line much earlier Iceland was unknown - the megalithicians didn't get there. The nordic edition of the legend of the Nibelungs - which we follow here by giving place names a sense - avoids the often discussed geographical inconsistencies of the Middle High German version. This transfer in space and time of this Lied by a great unknown poetrist equals the transfer of the much older tale of Idomeneo, king of Crete, into the Ilias by the other great poetrist Homer. May be in both cases the audience was aware of this. It remains to verify all this archeologically − the northern half of the area of the ( nordic version of the ) Nibelungensaga, from Sagard to Klocksin, is strewn with megalithic sites.
arte , +kar i are typical Basque morphologies [Lha], hence in no case loans. If article can be backtracked [ KS ] via Latin to Greek árthron , this only can mean a trace from Pelasgian in Athens - and because this root appears among the Indo-European languages only in Tocharian and Albanian we assume its origin on the Balkans from where it startet its long resp. short travel. Maltese artikola ≡ leader, speaker [ AqM ] clearly is a Latin loan. There is a Semitic cognate. These names hence must have a *Vasconic derivation! With ❌ larre ≡ meadow we get
Bech+lare+n
⭮
bage + ❌ baga + ❌ baxa + ❌
≡ ≡ ≡
without + ❌ common beech + ❌ steep hillside + ❌
only if the center was nearby Glau a grove of red beeches exists only there would be the only known Nutheburg
- three possible etymologies, arranged by rising probability. In the first case Glau would be derived from gara ≡ elevation , this place being shielded strategically on three sides by wetlands and in the north climatically by the Glauer Berge-end moraine. The reason for the second derivation is the existence east of Lehnin of a grove full of red copper beeches, which glimmer in the sun like no other grove in Germany. The most likely derivation is the topological one - the last one of the Nuthe-burgs is situated above a steep hillside, still documented on modern maps but no longer existent. Because of
Zauche
⭮
zehaŕ
≡ ≡
west, detour transverse, athwart
in the west of the north-south route along river Nuthe and transverse to it
[ Lha p 1079 ]
we conclude that this long distance path early was established by the Bell Beaker people, afterwards was used by the Bandkeramik people and was supervised by the megalith-culture. ☟ Somewhat offroad towards the the Baruther Urstromtal, important for keeping this route to the south secure, we find the town of
Belz+ig
⭮
be l t z+eg i
≡
black+very
contrary to the Black Forest this fits the geographical situation quite well
- a typical *Vasconic place name - north and below the Burg Eis+en+hardt, itself in all three parts of its name typical *Vasconic. Even it is assumed that this route has been established by the Bell Beaker people quite early. Nearby Raben - village and the burg on the Steiler Hagen-hill - plays some role in our interpretation of the Nibelungenlied, but a *Vasconic derivation is very unlikely.
Given the tripartition of the Germanic world into a Semitic superstrat, a broad Indo-European adstrat and a *Vasconic substrat plus our reading of the Pforzen runic buckle, we now try to reconstruct prehistory, driving it to a legend and to its medieval poetic form. We interprete the Nibelungenlied according to the above diagram of an often told tale as lore of actual historical events, being told by two different angles of view, a *Vasconic and a megalithic one. This is done by
shifting it timely at least 2000 years backwards and spacely from river Rhine to river Rhin in Brandenburg. Thus we have to go back to an era when the Indo-Europeans firstly invaded central Europe from the south-east, establishing their first kingdoms and proceeding to the west in a series of huge Sichelschnitt operations pointing westward. The builders of the megalithic structures in the north not only used geography and fortifications at strategical places for defense, but also allied with the local *Vasconic speaking Bandkeramik people. Since the Indo-Europeans invaded mostly in groups of hundred, the Bandkeramik people used *Vasconic ehun ≡ hundred to call them huns. We think that the English idiom huns for the people living along the main defense line along river Elbe and the German idiom Hunde for enemies have their origins therefrom. This alliance also was sealed by a marriage of the two couples in the above diagram, arranged by reason of state. Therefore both marriages went bust - in one case after eight years, in the other case by Skadi's unwillingness to live near the sea. The Nibelungenlied describes the details - the breakthrough of the Indo-Europeans. The
mmmlegend of the Nibelungs, their travel to the Huns and their downfall
commenced at the megalithic site north-west of Klocksin on the watershed, which was the megalithicians storage yard of the bulk of their riches. After a decline of the megalith-culture a dynasty of Bandkeramik *Vasconics was able to assert themselves as castellans, the last of whose, Alberich, was able to win the sole ownership of this hoard. Sigurd → Sigward → Siegfried probably was a prince from the flat areas north of the escarpment, Nederland, at the watershed from a place Xanten we think to be Rand +ow on river Peene. When he ransacked the hoard the northern half of this site on the watershed remained intact. It was Hagen von Tronje who levelled this half and sank the hoard in river Rhin. Worms in the Nibelungenlied still has to be located - perhaps the royal residence of the Nibelungs somewhere on lake Nebelsee? From there the travel of the Nibelungs towards the territory of the Huns commenced with the meeting point in Potsdam, where river Nuthe flows into river Havel - in the days of yore river Rhin. Margrave Rüdiger resided on one of the four hillforts along river Nuthe at the beck-meadows - in Basque larre ≡ meadow - meadows edge river Nuthe in the Zauche-area plentifully. From there they crossed the valley of the Baruther Urstromtal and the Niederer Fläming-ridge towards the center of the Huns at Susa(t) in the south. This location still has to be located as well. Then the tomb of At l i / Etzel / Att i la can be seen from afar - it's the pyramid (cone) of Leubingen. This dates the historic events of the Nibelungenlied at 1900 bChr, the first tomb there - 1300 years earlieer - being too early. As a consequence, the megalithic defence at river Elbe delayed the breakthrough of the northern Indo-Europeans for about 300 years.
Via the figure of Dietrich von Bern the Nibelungenlied is slightly linked to the likewise age-old Dietrich-saga complex - by the role of this Germanic shining light at Attila's court. For Hildebrand's part of this song we even have an Old High German fragment, and we still hope that a full version of this part appears eventually. The existence of such a fragment is a hint that the Dietrich sagas and the Nibelungenlied are not only invented by a ( group of ) medieval poet(s) but are write-ups of historical events.
Given this we also transfer the Dietrich von Bern-complex, backwards to the era around 1900 bChr and towards the north-south-passage through the Zauche. Like the Nibelungenlied this tale was aligned by the very early medieval poetrist with events of the day and transferred to accessible areas from inaccessible ones east of river Elbe. Because of his Indo-European name he probably has been a leud at Attila's court. However, we cannot exclude that this name only describes his descendence or even only has been a title. In this setting of a borderland he overtook an older fortification on the Steile Hagen-hill - a megalithic name, which leads to its inclusion into the list of megalithic fortifications against the invading Indo-Europeans - and had his residence down in the village Raben. Indeed the Semit(id)ic-megalithic name is closer to Germanic raven than *Vasconic bele. Clearly this site meanwhile is overbuilt by the medieval burg Raben and we have to fear that the same holds for the site of the Rabenschlacht - battle of Ravenna - if so by the modern Autobahn which cuts a passage through the hills of the Fläming. We have here the same geo-strategical situation as at the Harzhorn further to the west.
Dietrich's underpart in the Nibelungenlied is only a weak clue for this perception. A substantial stronger one gives a Semiti(di)c-megalithic etymology for the name Raben, and for this there are the variants
all of which indicate a borderland-situation and correspond to Rüdiger's task. Hence did here a Bandkeramik and an Indo-European nobleman cooperate and also watch each other ?
the legend of the Nibelungs took place between Sagard / Rügen and the grave mound near Leubingen the Nibelungs
transferring the legend of the Nibelungs westward to river Rhine cannot work without distorsions
The Runic Buckle of Pforzen — elahu gasokun
A belt buckle, excavated in the years 1991 / 1992 near Pforzen in the lower Allgäu in an Alemannic grave field [ BCD p 31 ], pictures in [ W&B ], gives a sensational insight into the common history of *Vasconic and Germanic people. It is dated around the Merovingian conquest of the Alemannic area in the year 535. Transcribed from the runes its inscription reads
a i g i l and i a ï l run e l a h u gaso k un .
The first line is easy to understand. It is a typical Germanic stave rhyme, referring to Egil, the brother of Wieland, and to the Valkyrie Alrune, with whom he lived nine years together, until she left him. The intrigues around this failed relationship also may be part of a lost Egil lied. Apparently it is part of the world of sagas around Wieland the Smith, which is known to be very early. Hence it makes sense to assume the first line as the header of a saga, interpreted by the second line. Exactly this is badly done by the translation given by the excavators themselves. This also holds for all later translations. Because of its early dating, centuries before Bonifatius, any christian bearing also is unlikely. Moreover to be worth to be engraved on a belt buckle, it must be some song of songs, known to everybody, on often told drastic events, i.e. something of the quality of the Nibelungenlied. Hence, we have to ask for restricting requirements for the second line, which are not fulfilled by any of the hitherto approaches. Now the second line undoubtedly is not Indo-European Germanic − it is virtually Basque! With [ Küh ] we get
and moreover therein only in one word there have been syllables and single sounds interchanged, plus one n inserted. This can be put to the great a poetry
ehu+n≡ the many times told tale
together. The step asko ⭯ gaso looks intermediate to the German ganz (≡ whole) - i.e. without nasalisation, but already with the typical Old High German suffix +o. This translation is closest to the original inscription and fulfills all criteria to be engraved on a buckle. Also it illuminates the latest surviving of the *Vasconic language. In addition scribal errors on the brooch are utterly unlikely, like in all archeological troves, even if buyer, engraver and literate were not identical. If such errors are necessary there is a rule of thumb - the translation is erroneous. Adding to this translation of Pallas Athene we get an Homerian epos! Hence, is the hexameter - which even in a straightforward German translation is great a poetry - Pelasgian heritage, which the *Vasconic original inhabitants handed down into the German language in the same way, whereas Indo-Europeans preferred stave rhymes? This even allows for interchanging both words in the second line, something we know in German from J.W. von Goethe's
ist die Nacht das halbe Leben und die schönste Hälfte zwar ,
and take for great a poetry. In between our *Vasconic-German approach and this poetic grammatical freedom we find the general grammar. The similarity of which in Basque and in German remains to explore, in excess of the similarity of pre- and suffixes in both languages. The Nibelungenlied deserves for sure the heading the often told tale. Given that also the name of the Valkyrie A i l +rune easily can be derived from Semit(id)ic high(ranking) + sorceress - the table
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Translation
*Vasconic
Megalithic
Translation
Ansatz Nibelungen
Basque woman
≡
Skad i
⭕⭕
N j örd
≡
lord of the earth
doer, maker
≡
Eg i l
⭕⭕
A i l +rune
≡
high + sorceress
a Valkyrie
—
❓
—
een schöne wi p
?
≡
Kr i em+h i ld
⭕⭕
S i gurd
≡
master of the earth
doer, maker
≡
Gu(n)ter
⭕⭕
Bryn+h i l d
≡
?
a Valkyrie
Translation
Megalithic
Megalithic / ?
Translation
looks like connecting loose ends, although the etymology of two women's names still has to be given. This diagram already contains more pairwise correspondig statements ( in the sense of elementary logic ) on the four mythical characters than Scott-Littleton's Ansatz for the samurais in Japan. Therefore we assume that this song is part of a song of Wieland, and - because this is assumed to be very old - is of the same age. So many facts inside the songs only are a christian adaptation of the early Middle Ages, giving rise to interpretations. Thereafter must have existed for ages a song of W i e l a n d
which we do not know anymore, and which we still have to discover,
which sings about historical events like the contact of *Vasconic and megalithic people from the north,
the age of which can be compared with the Greek Prometheus lore, without both being identical,
with a strophe, singing about Wieland's brother Egil and some Ailrune, the title line of which we know from Pforzen.
There must have existed an earlier bilingual poet of Homer's rank, who was able to rhyme in both languages,
and who not only was able to rhyme *Vasconic, but was also able to play with words - in the second line of the translation,
which also demonstrates how conservative Basque a language is, even if at the end of the first word of the second line an n was rubbed away - such tiny sound shift in 15 centuries strongly differentiates the Basque from the Indo-European languages.
At this time - because of the signs of usage we assume not more than 200 years of permanent use and inheritance of the Pforzen buckle - must have lived a bilingual bard of the Germanic legend, who still spoke the old *Vasconic language,
being able to recite to listeners, who still understood both languages,
the second, the German sound shift taking place under the influence of the still *Vasconic speaking population of the mountains.
Moreover we dare the Ansatz that the the upper and the lower part of this diagram describe the same characters - but in the * Vasconic language of the band ceramics people and the language of the megalithic builders. Since
Eg i l and Gu(n)ter - cancel the nasalisation - have the same translation in the two languages
the ending +earth for the men is the same, this also must be the case for the female +hild -
the first part of the men's names quantify, this also should be the case for the females -
and Skadi's name derives from her nation, i.e. may be a byname only,
it is possible that Kr i em+ also derives from the megalithic name for the band ceramics people, whom they found south of the areas along the North Sea and the Baltic everywhere - hence look at Sumerian baram ≡ (to) expand , hence the brigands. Alternatively there is the better Sumerian derivation
- with this the noble one it too went into modern Arabic [ Qaf p 499 ], [ B&H p 745 ] - we find here a nice illustration of our arrows ⭮ and ⭯. However, the bottom translation indicates the more explicite name
- with the semantic doubling by +hild. Since in the hebrew-christian-moslem world, i.e. the Beduin religions, such a fact would never have been allowed for a woman's name, in this case the name should have travelled with a city-type religion into the north, where it did not survive christianisation. This also holds for its Merovingian, male version Grimoald. In this translation a byname became a name, and if we identify Kriemhild with Skadi, which also is a byname, we do not know her real name. There remains to linguistically bridge Ailrune and Brynhild in order to reveal the truly decisive historical role of the song of the Nibelungs:
- wherein German Brünne ≡ byrnie, which seems to come from Basque barne+ko ≡ waistcoat , does not really convince. Instead we have to go further back to the original to get the meaning of this name - the designation of a Valkyrie. Because of Assyrian
even the remaining gap between Ailrune und Brynhild is closed.
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Semitic / Arabic
translation
Comment
[ Quelle ]
All this gives rise to hope for more surprising discoveries, perhaps like archeologically in Pforzen - Mindelheim halfway as the crow flies from Pforzen to Nordendorf, where are the findings and publications of an excavation of an Alemannic cemetry in the beginning 1950er years ? - hidden places or even unreckognised in a museum. This would considerably reduce the risk of hoaxes.
a philological sensation
The Runic Brooch of Nordendorf — logaþore
Nordendorf in the west of Augsburg is situated some 50 km north of Pforzen. Both sites should be seen in context with a Roman long distance road. In the year 1835 an Alemannic burial ground was cut, being only a little younger than that of Pforzen. At this early time discovering were not as exactly documentad as this is the case today. The runic brooch excavated there now is in a museum in Augsburg. Transcribed from runes this inscription is
l o g a þ o r e w o t a n w i g i þ o n a r a w a l e u b w i n immmmmmm ,
wherein in the first line logaþore is carved in notedly smaller than the names of the two gods wotan wigiþonar. This first word hence cannot be the name of a god since such a vilification could be dangerous. This must have been a - positive - incantation of one or even both gods. With [ Küh ] we get
l og+a+
←
l ege+a
≡
law + the
+þore
←
+dur i
≡
+representig, +delivering, +giving
wotan
≡
Woden
w i g i+þonar
≡
fighting Donar
awa
←
aba
≡
father
l eubw i n i
←
*l euba+*w i n i
≡
dear + friend
,
wherein the last line undoubtedly is Indo-European and not *Vasconic [ FBN l ēo f, w i ne ]. That l oga with the meaning law has survived a long time, is shown by the derivation of Oldswedish [ Eb l p 540 ]
l og + ma + þer
←
l ege + men + dur i
≡
law + men + agent
from *Vasconic, meaning men representing (the) law. Mixing two languages on the runic brooch clearly has to be explained: It is reasonable to assume that not only the first word but also the whole is an incantation because then we get a full list of positive attributes, the first two ones of which be ing *Vasconic, the final two ones Indo-European. And in order to feel save the *Vasconic ones can have lived on for a long time - given at all that the old language didn'd been spoken by some part of the population still at this time. Herein the word father does not disturb, since in Germanic it also is used as a kind of idiom.
for sure is not a modern hoax
( to fend off acclamations from America )
The Land Suava and the Geography
Our arguments for backdating the events of the Nibelung-saga, the source of the Nibelungenlied, and their transfer from river Rhine to river Rhin rest on the observations
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linguistically for nearly all places − the city of Worms still has to be identified − and acting persons there are etymologies which make sense,
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geographically all areas of the Nibelung-saga − Burgund, Nederland, Susa, Sachsen, Suava − are so close that in that early era they were within reach.
From north to south and regeions which neither were megalithic nor mentioned in saga and lied of the Nibelungs - but were for sure subject to the „Huns'' - we get
*Vasconic then Indo-European few megalithic tradíng posts along rivers
south
↓
− further east it becomes too cold for people of mediterraniqan origin.
everything close by which is more likely in this early era
The Fine Strategy of Prehistory
Presumably after a while - except for early skirmishes - a friendly exchange between the local *Vasconics and the megalithicians of the north came into being. This leads to riches, which in turn attracted the Indo-Europeans from the south-east - like some millennia later Huns, Madjars and Mongols. Elsewise than two of these Asiatic tribes the Indo-Europeans of the first Indo-European migration forged on to the Atlantic, settled down and developped high cultures. Whence we predominantely expect at river Elbe Semiti(di)c--megalithic, but off the Elbe-valley *Vasconic places and place names. Typical for the first ones is the place name Sark + ow + itz in the ≡ east of a fording of river Elbe, for the second ones Hartha near Dresden, a *Vasconic hartz-name. During this invasion from the east, which by no means was friendly as shows the massacre of Eulau - also that it not only was a fight for riches but also for women - the advance should have come to a temporary standstill at river Elbe. Since a breakthrough through that kind of plunger block at river Elbe was unavoidable, a strategic scenario like that one of the upbeat of the two world wars at the western front came into being, at best being denoted by the historic name sickle cut. Both Celtic branches, which according to Gray & Atkinson [ G&A ] split early around 2300 vChr, and therefore should be assumed as two different Indo-European language groups, advanced as far as the Atlantic. However, if we assume that this split occured already in Eastern Europe, the southern group should have arrived earlier at the Atlantic, coming along river Danube and the Belfort Gap. The northern group followed later after overwhelming the megalithic defence at the Elbe line - i.e. the defeat of the Burgundians as the Nibelungenlied tells - through Lorraine or even through the Netherlands. Then the split can have occurred already in Southern Poland, or even already east of the Pripjet-swamps - like much later Baltic and Slavic people.
The regions north of the Elbe line remained untouched in the first assault. First of all • Eastholstein / Mecklenburg / Pomerania, protected by the elaborate defense sites at the southern border of the 5 lake horseshoe, was held. Because the megalithicians established the Prignitz as borderlands, after (800) vChr there the Germanic language came into being. What role - if any - the battle of Conerow at river Tollense did play in this defense still remains open. More such untouched retreats were • Frisia, Salland und Holland - Frisia in history always being extra, and perhaps even • the Normandy and the Bretagne - the Normandy being geographically such unprotected against the south that if so there must have been special reasons for that, in the interior of a sickle.
The main wave should have been the arrival of the Indo-Europeans into the area of the later urnfield-culture from central Poland to the Champagne in France.
The latest wave, for sure after Christ, was the arrival of the Slavs, which in the middle of Germany was terminated by the power of the mighty Franks.
🍜 E Leithold, C Zielhofer, S Berg-Hobohm, K Schnabl, B Kopecky-Hermanns, J Bussmann, J Härtling, K Reicherter, K Unger Fossa Carolina: The First Attempt to Bridge the Central European Watershed · A Review, New Findings, and Geoarchaeological Challenges Geoarchaeology · An International Journal 27 [2012] pp 88-104 discuss the pros and cons of its completion.
[M&H]
[MH11]
🧱 J May, T Hauptmann „König Hinz" Kommt in die Jahre Archäologie in Berlin und Brandenburg [2003] pp 54-56 describe a typical Indo-European cult of fire in Seddin, which stretches from Scandinavia till to the areas around the Harz mountains, which by J. Udolph where the cell of origin of the Germanics. The following article [S&G] describes its archeology. The whole Bronze Age area along river Stepenitz, pointing to the main watershed between North Sea and Baltic, is analized extensively on http: // www.b-a-b.de/publikationen/May_Hauptmann_2012_Seddin.pdf.
J May, T Hauptmann Warum Befindet sich das „Königsgrab" von Seddin am Mittellauf der Stepenitz pp 129-150 in [ BE& ] discuss all, especially traffic aspects of this spectacular site. A pdf-version is available from the authors.
[S&G]
🧱 T Schenk, T Goldmann Die Seddiner Kultfeuerreihe Archäologie in Berlin und Brandenburg [2003] pp 57-59
first published