Beards (trunk)
The Barten were a tribe of the Prussian people in what was later to become East Prussia .
location
The settlement area of the Barten, the Gau of the same name , was roughly in the middle of the Prussian area. In 1326, Peter von Dusburg describes the area in his Chronicon Terrae Prussiae as lying between the Alley , the Swine , the Mauersee in the Masurenplatte and the forests of the Jadwinger .
history
Like all Prussian tribes, the Barten were subjected to the Teutonic Order in the 13th century .
Your name can be found u. a. in the Bartenstein Castle (today Bartoszyce) on the Alle again.
language
You probably spoke a Prussian dialect, which is not linguistically tangible. Prussian was a West Baltic language.
Later development
The beards later became part of the East Prussian population along with German, Mazovian and Lithuanian immigrants.
annotation
- ↑ compare Old Prussian language # dialects .