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Thread #79881 Message #3666748
Posted By: GUEST,Rahere
06-Oct-14 - 06:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lowlands of Holland (from Dave Burland)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lowlands of Holland (from Dave Burland)
The Lowlands of Holland, I always understood to be the drowned lands now forming places like the Dogger Bank: she's in need of another because he's drinking with Davy Jones. If so, the the seas are indeed between, or 'twine, her love and her. In terms of naval history, I'd put it at the tail end of the Commonwealth, when Tromp sailed the seas with a broom at his masthead, as a symbol of his determination to brush the English fleet aside. There were ships enough sunk in the Lowlands Low, and in the Medway, during those years.