GRGR(5): Blicero on Sea: "Trutz Blanker Hans!"

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 At the Northern Sea they say: "Trutz Blanker Hans!" (- about: "Resist the Blank 
 Hans!"). Der Blanke Hans is nobody else but Blicero in his maritime form. In  
 "blank" there is the shining whiteness of total abstraction. Etymologically it 
 is related to "blecken", "bleich" & "blitzen", all in the word field of 
 Blicero.
                                                       Yours, Kai