How Countries in the British Isles Got Their Names

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[Grahn-Hoek rejects a left-rhineish Thuringian empire] On what grounds?

I will have its grounds that I didn't remember and had to review it. It's complicated. She states that the assumption of such an empire - which is done by the majority of scholars - is based on 6 reasons and then she elaborates in detail why she considers these reasons not correct or at least not enough supportive for such an assumption.

The main direction seems to be that she considers Gregory of Tours simply wrong in some points regarding the time that he didn't experience himself (he also reports that the Franks hailed from Pannonia) and that Thuringia politically streched till the Rhine river and a number occurances assumed on the left Rhine side were in fact on the right Rhine side.

The 41 pages article Gab es vor 531 ein linksniederrheinisches Thüringerreich? is in German and available here:

https://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/dokumente/a/a106907.pdf

It's very interesting and worth reading in any case considering how many subjects it touches. Maybe you have the possibility of an automated translation.

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As a sidenote: It‘s always interesting how there are similarities between English and Low German, but none with High German. For example: To jabber is jabbeln in Low German, but there‘s no similar word in High German for this. I‘m collecting these similarities and this is a new one I discovered. Same for late = laat in Low German, but totally different in High German (später), or clock and Klock, but Uhr in High German, and many more.