The language spoken by the whole country was the same which had been spoken in Sleswick.
In Sleswick also we have a portion of the Jute population of Jutland.
Among the earliest conquests of the Norse vikings was a portion of the present Sleswick which after them was called Nortmannia.
A well-known locality in the Duchy of Sleswick supplies the commentary on these texts.
Eydersted also is Low German, and so are the southern and eastern parts of Sleswick.
