![]() ![]() A seashore with flat, barren tidal marshlands, intersected by many creeks, inlets, and with rivers and streams flowing from the interior. The explanation of wet lowlands fits smoothly how the landscape of West Flanders looked like at the closing of the eighth century. Therefore, plain of wet lowlands, or in more fashionable language The Big Sink. ![]() Sinc is an older variant of sink or zink meaning (wet) lowland, a basin, and fala might be related to the Swedish fala meaning plain (Van Renswoude 2021). We stick with what we started with this post, a waterzooi. However, if you follow this theory, equally well swytfal might have been a clerical error, and it just was sincfalam from the start (Van Renswoude 2021). Swytfal then would have been written as suitfal, and through a clerical error written as sincfal, because of the c and t being mixed up. Swinþa later developed into swīth and into swyt. The word fal meaning waterway, which might have derived from the river Waal called Vacalus in Latin (Kuiper 2013). This developed from the Old-Germanic word swinþa meaning powerful. Another explanation is that sincfal derives from the word swytfal. Sincfal as in ‘sink-fall’ would then, however, be a pleonasm (Van Renswoude 2021). Val, meaning to fall/to drop, is a toponym found also in province Zeeland. One is that sincfalam refers to land or dike subsidence, or to the sinking of riverbanks (Coen 2008). There are different theories about the linguistic origin of the name sincfalam. 1330)īetween the river Weser and the Zwin, | Back then called Sincfala, | Converted to God before, | By Willibrord’s, by Willehad’s, | And by Boniface’s sermons. Spiegel Historiael written by Jacob van Maerlant (ca. These were: (1) civitas West Frisia, as mentioned, between the river Zwin and the river Vlie, (2) civitas Mid Frisia or Central Frisia between the river Vlie and the river Lauwers, and (3) civitas East Frisia between the river Lauwers and the river Weser.Įnde bi Bonefacis predicade. However, the laws of Frisia differed slightly between the three civitates ‘subregions’ of Frisia. The Lex Frisionum is written at the end of the eighth century, between 785 and 794, but its clauses possibly date back to the end of the sixth century (Henstra 2010). The overall jurisdiction of the Lex Frisionum, a codex written in Latin, were the lands between Sincfalam fluvium ‘Zwin river’ and Wisaram fluvium ‘Weser river’. Voilà, your ultra-short version of the history of Flanders! So, the reader has been warned before starting this long-read about the March of Flanders. A lot of cutting and vigorous chop-chopping before you start boiling it into a mess. Actually, it is quite a lot of work to prepare it. If you think Waterzooi is a straightforward dish, think again. This post is an attempt to fill in the gap. We noticed, not much has been written about this southern frontier of medieval Frisia. Waterzooi, meaning watery mess in Flemish speech, happens to be a traditional dish of Flanders. Sincfalam can be translated as plain of wet lowlands. ![]() For the moment between Belgium and the Netherlands. Sincfalam, also written as Sincfalem, is where inlet the Zwin is in Flanders. The river Flehum flowed into the North Sea where strait Vlie, between the islands Terschelling and Vlieland, is today. Its jurisdiction was, among other, the land inter Flehum et Sincfalam fluvium ‘between Vlie and Sincfalam river’. At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, customary law of the Frisians was codified. ![]()
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