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Hallier has, however, pointed out that the Heligolanders do not use this name for their home. They call the island "det Lunn" the land; their language they call "Hollunner," and he suggests that the original name was Hallig-lunn. A hallig is a sand-island occasionally covered with water. When the Düne was connected with the rock there was a large stretch of sand covered by winter floods.
Hallig-lunn would then mean the island that is more than a hallig; and from the similarity of the words to Heligoland a series of etymological errors may have arisen; but Hallier's derivation is, after all, only a guess. Heligoland, an island and fortress in the North Sea, lies thirty-six miles northwest of the mouth of the Elbe Hamburg.
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