from Borkum (TVL)
It is unlikely that a long-felled forest gave the dunes their name. The outermost dunes of the southern tip have long since lapsed into the sea, and no one can say exactly what the southern dunes were like around the year 1400. It was at this time that the famous privateer Klaus Störtebeker is said to have buried a huge treasure in the dunes – shortly before his sinister execution in Hamburg. "If the dunes could speak, it would be Borkum never lack money,” it says in BorkumHe says so, that the dunes have repeatedly revealed pieces of treasure. Störtebeker was known to the East Frisians in Marienhafe, and he is said to have made great loot on the Ems, while his ship repeatedly Borkum But the wind whips the sand over sea and land, and the waves drag everything into the flood that is not strong enough to withstand their force. When the locals BorkumWhen people once searched for seabird eggs, many dreamed of a great find—pirates' gold. (TvL)
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