Talk:Battle on the Raxa/Archive 1

Archive 1

Settlement of the Cocarescemians

1. "Stadt der Cocarescemier" (German) would have to be translated into "settlement of the Cocarescemians". The name of the city itself is NOT 'Cocarescemier', as given in the English language article as of today. Its name is still as unknown as its place is.

2. Important note on some latin language philology: The latin word ‘carex’ means ‘reed grass’. ‘Carectum’ is a ‘place where there is reed grass’. ‘Carescemians’ are ‘people from a place where there is reed grass’. ‘Cocarescemians’ are ‘people who are related to each other by the place of the reed grass’. Because the settlement allegedly was an “imperialist saxon” one in a slavic environment, it is plausible that the word ‘Cocarescemians’ should be instead translated with "people who were (deliberately) settled in the shelter of reed grass". – Finally, it is likely to see the settlement as having in any case been a place in the sedimentation zone of a water body.

3. Another note – with respect the history of the german Mecklenburg region: There was also another Mecklenburg "settlement in the shelter of the reed grass". This was the (at an unknown time later missing) harbour settlement of Reric. ("Reric" also stands for "reed".) Reric is the place, whose population was in the same period (!) relocated to Hedeby (forcibly, - or to protect them / intact - or partially). With respect to later the missing place of Reric, the respective protection- and name-giving sedimentation zone of a water body is known: It is the reed grass area between the island of Poel and the mainland opposite. (At the moment there is no reasonable evidence that Reric on one hand and the settlement of the Cocarescemians on the other hand just are one and the same thing.) --79.202.217.86 (talk) 14:30, 29 June 2013 (UTC)