Ortsnamen und Wanderungen der Völker

Abstract

People who leave their home, take their names with them. That is the reason why place names in new settlements can contain remembrances of the language spoken in the former home area. This essay will among others deal with the German emigration overseas; the German settlement in the East; the spreading of the East-Slavic settlement area; the occupation and settlement of England through Western Germanic tribes, and the home and dispersal of Germanic tribes. For this purpose, place names are important, maybe even the most important witnesses of migration.