tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post1373415377631842925..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Ear Sorezmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-53262872395398773582015-04-16T22:06:49.578+02:002015-04-16T22:06:49.578+02:00Wherever they came from, sadly almost all the Saxo...Wherever they came from, sadly almost all the Saxons have cleared off, in what they see,misguidedly, I hope, as a window of opportunity before another Ceausescu takes overzmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-6251092449637116882015-04-16T02:52:36.543+02:002015-04-16T02:52:36.543+02:00This town in Lower Saxony is about 50 kilometers f...This town in Lower Saxony is about 50 kilometers from the Dutch border. I don't know who may have ended up where back in the late Middle Ages, but if tasked to recruit Saxons for Transylvania, I'd have looked first in Electoral Saxony to save everyone time and expense.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-27421904390189611962015-04-15T19:36:21.738+02:002015-04-15T19:36:21.738+02:00We've just been in the Saxon areas of Romania,...We've just been in the Saxon areas of Romania, for what it's worth. I wonder if you have a distant relative amongst the people there - or not there, as most Saxons have left for Germanyzmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-88534893579295954722015-04-12T02:06:12.795+02:002015-04-12T02:06:12.795+02:00Some years back, I was in the village in Lower Sax...Some years back, I was in the village in Lower Saxony from which two of my great-grandparents emigrated. A boy of seven or eight, a very distant cousin, had a toy with the motto "Go Ape Shit" written on it. He spoke, that I could tell, no English at all.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com