Incidentally, Ketrzynski argued that the Saale – known earliest by the name Solava/Souava (hence Solaviane/Slaviane/Souaviane/Souavi?) – was also known by another Slavic name, i.e., Sala (presumably a shorter version of Solava). Similar names are also present in Poland and elsewhere. But what was the basis for this claim?
Apparently, on the following note in the Annales Reinhardsbrunnenses (Annals of the Reinhardsbrunn monastery) (2nd half of the 12th century):
These monks were little people but their records were impeccable
“Sicque in orientalem Saxoniam provectus, super ripam fluminis, quod Slavica lingua Sale dicitur…”
“Thus, in eastern Saxony he advanced, on the bank of a river which in the Slavic language is called Sala…”
Here is Reinhardsbrunn – close enough to Slav lands so the monks probably knew what they were talking about :
Now our favoroute cantankerite Aleksander Brueckner, much as he did with the Rura, had an irrefutable argument against Ketrzynski’s interpretation:
“I am likewise not impressed [!] by the other citations [of Ketrynski’s], for example [the above] – what could this in the best case prove?”
With logicians like this, no wonder that Slavic studies made such great progress at the turn of the prior century.
This from Ketrzynski:
And Muellenhoff… oh Muellenhoff… we will have something to say about his “emendations” soon.
Kopfzerbrechung in progress
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