Comment by amscanne
5 years ago
The article suggests multiple other interpretations. That does seem to be the most accepted, although “probably” seems like the wrong word.
5 years ago
The article suggests multiple other interpretations. That does seem to be the most accepted, although “probably” seems like the wrong word.
Jürgen Udolph - the researcher in Onomastics who has proposed the generally accepted theory - is well respected. The names of families and of places in that region northeast of Berlin resemble those from Hameln/Hamelin. However, he does not claim to have found the one true truth. A possible alternative is that both things happened - locators recruiting the younger generation around Hameln as well as the incident that became the story of the Pied Piper