What would be some possible uses for these buildings?
Posted by adminero_us on 5 November 2017 in English.Some of them have already been labeled.
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Comment from LemonKing on 5 November 2017 at 14:49
Hello adminero_us, nice to hear from you!
As this is a question that concerns a very limited number of users - namely us who share interest in this unofficial collaboration project of mapping Vinnmark - I think the most suitable place for this discussion is not the user diaries, but the wiki, more spesificly the following page:
http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Talk:Berles,_Vinnmark
Cheers, LemonKing
Comment from ADB52 on 5 November 2017 at 17:11
As a native Dutch speaker, I can translate Rijksslot as National Castle - TheHumanEvent’s translation puts it quite adequately.
Comment from LemonKing on 5 November 2017 at 18:56
Er… Isn’t Vinnish like Danish rather than Dutch? Streets in Kongshavn är definitely Danish, and so are most place names in Vinnmark, though some are Swedish, Dutch or German-like. Intentional smashup?
Comment from ADB52 on 5 November 2017 at 19:30
There is French as well, particularly in the west. It is quite supra-national
Comment from adminero_us on 5 November 2017 at 20:16
Vinnish is supposed to be a mixture of Swedish and Danish, with some Dutch words. I have some basic knowledge of these languages, but I thought ‘rijk’ meant royal, so rijksslot was supposed to mean royal castle, as a residency for the royal family of Vinnmark.
Comment from histor on 5 November 2017 at 21:42
“Rikj” is like the german “Reich” - means land or area. But shure a king may live in a slot, namerd after the land and not to him.
Comment from LemonKing on 6 November 2017 at 06:40
In the wiki, the country’s official name is “Königriek af Vinnmark”, where “riek” supposely equals ge. “Reich” / du. “rijk” / da. “rige”. If the castle be called “Rijksslot” in stead of “Rieksslot”, it could be an archaic spelling of the same word … OR a different Vinnish word meaning “royal” in stead of “land”, whatever is decided. It is not unusual in RW that a word has two different meanings in nabouring languages.