Challenge: Slavic Jutland/Britain

[Baconheimer]

Interesting....
Any good resources on Wendish (and Migration Age in general) town and place naming customs?

 

[ingemann]

worth noticing ... several places (specially the southern danish isles) had a substantial Wendish minority through most of the latter middle ages, not only as common farmers but even a few noble houses (specially noteworthy would be House of Putbus, which were a cadet line of the ruling house) came from Rügen. Even a few names in use in Denmark is clearly inherited from this minority (Preben, from the Slavic 'Pritbor' from 'prid' first and 'bor' battle is the most used of these)

Yes Lolland had significant Wendish settlement, but it happened after 1000AD, when the Wends had adopted more advanced ship building and was beginning to be a similar problem for the Danes as they had been for the Franks and English. Valdemar (Vladimir) and Svante (Svantevit) too was adopted from the Slavs (through Valdemar likely came from Russia rather than from the Wends).

 

[ingemann]

Interesting....
Any good resources on Wendish (and Migration Age in general) town and place naming customs?

You can look up the names of East German towns the old one was Slavic settlement before the Germans moved in. Liubice as example was Lübeck, beside that you ca look at the Junkers "von" names ( more or less any ending on -ow come from a Slavic town name), as for places in general they tended to use the old Germanic names just in a Slavic version.

 

[Marko]

Also there some claims that during the Danelaw period Polabian Slavs settled in some parts of Britania as Danish allies.

 

[ingemann]

Also there some claims that during the Danelaw period Polabian Slavs settled in some parts of Britania as Danish allies.

Likely, but it was likely similar in scale and influence to the Danes who settled in the 13 colonies before the ARW, there was some, and they have likely made up a few precent of the immigrants, but they had little influence.