[Sca-cooks] Help with Translation - Freses

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

What would you say to the possibility that Coloners might be the  
people of and around Cologne?

Just throwing ideas around...

Adamantius

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On Sep 17, 2008, at 5:19 PM, euriol <euriol at ptd.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Some of you may be aware I'm working on a translation of an herbal,  
> and I
> came across a word I can't define. The herbal is "The Names of  
> Herbes" by
> William Turner. In the entry regarding wormwood it says (my  
> translation)
> "the Freses call it wild rosemary". I cannot identify precisely  
> exactly who
> the "Freses" are. I have a guess that it might be the Frisians, but  
> I can
> not find anything conclusive with all the web searching I've done.  
> There
> are some books that appear to be written in Swedish on google books  
> that
> has "Freses" (capitalized) but I do not read Swedish so I can't  
> translate
> them in context. Just to note that the Greek, Latin, German, French &
> English name for the wormwood is already identified in the entry for
> wormwood. It even has an entry for "Coloners" which I could confirm  
> to mean
> "Colonists", but from which Colony is not stated.
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
>
> Euriol
>
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