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Re: Odevalla: CHW to CK
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In a message dated 08/02/2007 02:42:53 GMT Standard Time,
chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
When you look up Bretwit you are sent to Odevalla and Aroz.
Odevalla, a fine town north of Onhava in E. Zembla, once the mayorship of
the worthy Zule ("chessrook") Bretwit, granduncle of Oswin Bretwit (q.v., q.v.,
as the crows say).
Dear Carolyn,
There is a town called Uddevalla in Sweden, near the university town of
Gothenburg. As mentioned earlier, Bretwit could mean chess intelligence, or board
knowledge/skill. Gothenburg is on the West coast of Sweden, however. There
are a few other near links to Swedish geography in Zemblan geography. Oswin was
an Anglo-Saxon; but the Anglo-Saxons were partly of West Swedish origin.
Charles
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