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#1: Ida Stagsted (dipsyhappy) on Jun 24, 2007

I made this one just because i'm a Dane, it is a very easy puzzle and doesn't take any skills at all.

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Very nice. :-D

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Probably the smallest "speed solved" to "puzzle size" ratio I've done.

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And I was hoping for a sweetroll. Hey, I'm on my coffee break, what can I say?

to stjarna, I can't say your comment would have been a spoiler to me!

Nice!

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Fascinating information Rea. Thank you so much! :-)

thats what you get from a librarian, its what we do best (and love btw)

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lol thanks gypso

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Okay Jan. I'm glad for you that the feeling has passed, but could you tell us more about Dithmarschen?
Oh, and which side of the family did your middle name come from?

well if we are talking grudges germany did inwade all of denmark and that was only last century... no grudges here though

I think I've told this story here before somewhere. My father's father really hated Hitler, the Nazi's and all they stood for. However, while that government was in power this was an unwise sentiment to express publicly. My guess is that this is part of the reason why he filled his house with memorablia from Dithmarschen - he had flags and pictures and banners, you name it. This was OK with the Nazis, who liked to venerate German folk culture, but at the same time Dithmarschen was the polar opposite of everything that the Nazi's stood for. Dithmarschen was an early peasant farmer democracy that managed to fight off domination from neighboring countries for quite a long time. Eventually, like all the German states, it fell to one of the various waves of consolidation. My grandfather lived near Dithmarschen, but not in it. His ancestors weren't from that area at all, though some of his wife's ancestors were. But I think he picked on them as an ideal because while the Nazi's idealized trying to unite all the German people under one government, Dithmarschen stood for independence and resistance to that whole kind of movement. So I think it was a sideways way of expressing his opposition to the Nazi's that wouldn't get him thrown in prison.

Anyway, my dad, raised in this atmosphere of Dithmarschen-worship, gave me the middle name "Dithmar". My mom was never terribly fond of it, and once quietly gave me permission to change it if I wanted, but I rather like it. I have a few of my grandfather's Dithmarschen items - a flag, an old map, but I don't think I've ever even been there. Might have driven through on one of my few short childhood visits to Germany.

Interesting story :)

Thanks Jan

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