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tl;dr: the event refers probably to an emigration that really happened, and the pied piper might have been a recruiter to attract settlers to newly conquered la
by MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
tl;dr: the event refers probably to an emigration that really happened, and the pied piper might have been a recruiter to attract settlers to newly conquered lands near Berlin
- amscanne 6y agoThe article suggests multiple other interpretations. That does seem to be the most accepted, although “probably” seems like the wrong word.
- Zickzack 6y agoJürgen Udolph - the researcher in Onomastics who has proposed the generally accepted theory - is well respected. The names of families and of places in that region northeast of Berlin resemble those from Hameln/Hamelin. However, he does not claim to have found the one true truth. A possible alternative is that both things happened - locators recruiting the younger generation around Hameln as well as the incident that became the story of the Pied Piper