NK - meaning of the barony name.

Addington, Debbie, A daaddington at saintfrancis.com
Tue Jan 23 10:17:01 PST 2001


i believe that it would.  i have seen it refered that way in some church
records for both jever and middels, as periodically they where raided.
maidenhair

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> From:	Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner [SMTP:the_burg at busprod.com]
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> Subject:	Re: NK - meaning of the barony name.
> 
> Keep refers to walled fortification, or castle in my understanding.  In
> Germany burgs referred to fortified castles and schloss to palace type
> "castles".  If it was just a tower it would be a turm (there is an umlat
> over the u).  We think of Northkeep as a fortified castle so we use
> Nordburg.  However, His Excellency prefers Nordwerk, I believe, which is
> Scandinavian.  That would probably also work for a northern German.  I'm
> sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Ismet
> 
> 
> Timothy Adams wrote:
> > 
> > ok, I was trying to do a translation of Northkeep to German.
> > 
> > I am having a problem...
> > 
> > NORTH is easy Nord
> > 
> > KEEP however is trouble some.
> > With this name what are we refering to?
> > the inner sanctum of a castle or a castle or what???
> > 
> > I am thinking about a persona change to Northern Duestchland ~1500
> > 
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