Talk:Der Großmann/@comment-43618284-20190825141742

This journal is definitely bullshit. Lars? That's a northern name. Nobody living in the Black Forest in the 18th century would ever have named their kid Lars. Even today, there are northern names that you will hardly find as far in the south as the Black Forest.

I know, because I'm from the Black Forest and I have a northern name; it was always considered to be very exotic.

What's more, I've never heard about that legend. We have legends and stories galore about ghosts, forest spirits, water nymphs, fairies, etc. But no "Großmann". And shouldn't that be "Großer Mann" in correct German? It just sounds like an English-speaking person looked it up in a dictionary and didn't know you had to decline the adjective...