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Saterland Frisian Foodways

Seelterlound

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FOUR VILLAGES — Strücklingen, Ramsloh, Scharrel and Sedelsberg — in Lower Saxony, holding the LAST SURVIVING EAST FRISIAN LANGUAGE, Seeltersk, with roughly a thousand speakers. It survived precisely because the settlement sat on a sand ridge surrounded by impassable raised bog, cut off from the Low German country around it until the 19th century. The foodways are moorland and smallholding foodways: buckwheat, rye, potatoes, pigs, geese, peat-cut land, bog hay, and a subsistence economy on poor ground. ⚠ NOT A VARIANT OF WEST FRISIAN, and not the same thing as East Frisia.

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  • Saterland Frisians community documented

Languages: Saterland Frisian

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