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| Terp Region |
| Eastern Jutland |
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Germany has a varied landscape, gently undulating moraines in eastern Jutland, wetlands and salt marsh along the north sea coast, low lying but dry flat heathland in the north and thickly forested steep sided hills in the south and east.
Rivers such as the Weser, Elbe and Rhine which flow into the North Sea could carry people just as easily as they carried goods. We should not assume therefore that all germanic speaking peoples who came to England originated from the wetlands of the lower Elbe region simply because they show signs of desertion. Indeed, analysis of crop pollens show a contraction of cultivated land and an increase in forestation in all parts of germany between the 4th and 7th cents.
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Raised store from the reconstructed 1st cent. Lombard village at Zethlingen (Altmark).
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