Marcel
and Lowell:
Thank
you for the "correct" translation. On the one side you are absolutely right and
what you say sounds perfectly reasonable, on the other I have my doubts and
wish to learn where the name really originates from - it may have suffered
a twist from an original "villa (libre de jurisdicción)" to the modern
"villalibre (de jurisdicción)". As a mountain climber I never give up and will
explore directly at the source before we go on speculating - especially because
it would be marvellous to see my hypothesis confirmed by a local
historician.
Thank
you for sharing this little anecdote with me,
Wolfgang
The
proper translation of the Spanish is "Freetown of the Jurisdiction,"
not
"Town Free of the Jurisdiction."
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville,
Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From:
"marcelmiquelcat" <marcelmiquel@...>
To:
<BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:04
PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Villalibre sin
Jurisdicción
I suppose that "free" is about the town,
not about the jurisdiction.
So, the correct translation would be "free town
into the
jurisdiction", and not "town free of the jurisdiction".
I don't
know what jurisdiction would be: it's possible that it was a
town free, as
an enclave into a land summited to a feudal
jurisdiction of a lord or a
monastery.
marcel
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com,
"Wolfgang Schaub"
<Wolfgang.Schaub@c...> wrote:
> First, muchas
gracias. Yes, you are right: "de la", not "sin".
Anyway, the
>
meaning is the same. And still there is no explanation for the
name:
?Porque
> no tiene jurisdicción? Dear Quadernet, I would be
immensely
grateful, if you
> could find out for me, before I have to
display my poor Spanish to
the mayor
> of this little
village.
>
> Wolfgang
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