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He Barks With His Tail |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2002 |
| Size: 561 Words, 3,274 Characters |
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Located near Hamburg in the north of Lower Saxony, Buxtehude dates to the tenth century, when Emperor Otto I donated a village called Buochstadon to a monastery in Magdeburg. Two hundred years later, it was known as Buchstadihude. The village had no particular significance other than being the location of a nunnery. (Buchstadihude means "harbor near the beech trees at the waterside.")
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... to the bell by which it could be tolled. The name for bell in the Dutch dialect was hunte. The word for tolling the bell was bellen. To the Saxons, however, hunte sounded like hund, or hound. Similarly, bellen was their word for "bark." And, of course, the long rope resembled a tail. Thus, out of this difference in language came the saying that in Buxtehude, dogs bark with their tails.--S.L.
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