Here is an interesting Dutch name:
Today’s Maarssen, earlier Merseen or Marsenhofen on the Mass river nearby Utrecht.
Its prior names?
- Marsana
- Marsna
- Marna
Even if this does not have anything to do with the Polish Goddess Marzanna, the name is suspiciously Slavic looking. If the name had been discovered in Eastern Germany, there’d likely be no question about its provenance. But here it is connected with Mars,,
Marsna and Marzana of Dlugosz
For other mentions of Dutch Slavs see here and here.
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