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"Hameln" is in northern Germany, don't know where the I comes from in the English transliteration. There are many theories, one of them is the Children's Crusa
by b2ccb2 11mo ago
"Hameln" is in northern Germany, don't know where the I comes from in the English transliteration.
There are many theories, one of them is the Children's Crusade[0], diseases, pagan sects, but yes, the leading one is the "Ostsiedlung".
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostsiedlung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostsiedlung
- flobosg 11mo agoFunnily enough, the district (Landkreis) name in English keeps the original spelling: Hameln-Pyrmont.
- mananaysiempre 11mo ago> don't know where the i [in Hamelin] comes from in the English transliteration Could just be that it’s a very inconvenient consonant cluster (and and a speaker of modern English will to some degree turn it into a [lən] or [lɪn], however you spell it).
- throwaway173738 11mo agoI’m an English speaker and when I saw it written “Hameln” I thought it was a typo.
- emmelaich 11mo agoIt comes from the same place as the i in Munich.
- b2ccb2 11mo agoOh, and my favorite theory: "Eine andere, weniger stark vertretene Theorie besagt, dass die Hamelner Kinder einem heidnischen Sektenführer aufgesessen sein könnten, der diese zu einem religiösen Ritus in die Wälder bei Coppenbrügge geführt hat, wo sie heidnische Tänze aufführten. Dabei habe es einen Bergrutsch oder Erdfall gegeben, wodurch die meisten umgekommen seien. Noch heute lässt sich dort eine große Kuhle finden, die durch ein solches Ereignis entstanden sein könnte." > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattenf%C3%A4nger_von_Hameln#Historischer_Hintergrund https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattenf%C3%A4nger_von_Hameln#H... I'll roughly translate it: "Another, less thought after theory says, the children of Hameln got seduced by a pagan cult leader. He lead the children to the forest of Coppenbrügge for a religious ritual, where they performed pagan dances. This caused an landslide, causing most of them to die. There is, to this day, still a large pit, that could have been caused by such an event." Edit: Expanded translation
- IAmBroom 11mo agoWell, I'm convinced! What else could have caused a pit, but pagan dancing?
- b2ccb2 11mo agoThe historical precursor of a mosh pit.
- buildsjets 11mo agoI go to many metal and other shows a year. A 3-day outdoor festival in the woods with hundreds of tripping manchildren moshing in the rain resulted in a very muddy shallow depression, not a landslide. I have brief cameo in the video below. Want to see a hundred hippies sitting in the mud pretending to row ancient Roman galley? https://youtu.be/X-BtJBDi8OA?si=Gtzeibmuokx39KhP https://youtu.be/X-BtJBDi8OA?si=Gtzeibmuokx39KhP