Atlantis of the North Sea

[Otto]

No, I think the Norfolk-novel is about "Vineta" in the Baltic Sea.

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In fiction, Vineta is visited by Nils Holgersson in Selma Lagerlöf's
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. It also appears in Günter Grass's
The Rat and Lawrence Norfolk's The Pope's Rhinoceros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineta

2010/9/25 James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com>:
> Fascinating..  so that must be where The Pope's Rhinoceros begins?
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> J
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> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Rungholt
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>> Rungholt was a wealthy city in Nordfriesland, northern Germany. It
>> sank beneath the waves when a storm tide (the first "Grote Mandrenke")
>> in the North Sea tore through the area on January 16, 1362.
>>
>> Rungholt was situated on the island of Strand, which was rent asunder
>> by another storm tide in 1634, and of which the islets of Pellworm,
>> Nordstrand and Nordstrandischmoor are the only remaining fragments.
>>
>> Relics of the city were being found in the Wadden Sea until the late
>> 20th century, but shifting sediments have carried the last of these
>> into the sea. In the 1920s and 1930s, some remains of the city were
>> exposed; they suggest a population of at least 1500 to 2000, which is
>> fairly large for that region and time, and it is likely that Rungholt
>> was a major port. Legend has greatly exaggerated its size and wealth,
>> however.
>>
>> Impressed by the fate of the city, the relics, and not least legend's
>> excessive descriptions, the German poet Detlev von Liliencron wrote a
>> poem about this lost city which starts with the words: "Heut bin ich
>> über Rungholt gefahren, die Stadt ging unter vor fuenfhundert Jahren".
>> (Today I travelled across Rungholt, the City went under five hundred
>> years ago)
>>
>> Local myth has it that one can still hear the church bells of Rungholt
>> ringing when sailing through the area on a stormy night.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rungholt
>>
>>
>> Atlantis der Nordsee
>>
>> German documentation, ZDF, 19.09.2010
>>
>> http://terra-x.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/22/0,1872,8111926,00.html
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