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Vikings of the Alps - Walser populations of the Valsesia Mount Rosa by Mauro Bottaro
The Walser are the populations who like on the highest, the harshest and the most isolated mountains in the Alps. They hang on still today on the pastures and forests of the Monte Rosa in Italy, Pomat on the Swiss Border, in Switzerland and in Austria.
Their peculiarity doesn’t only reside in their way of life, in symbiosis with the mountains, but their special language, the Titzschu, a Germanic language originating from the Saxon emigrations, carrying with them the Viking past and traditions. They have 14 ways of describing a precipice or a cliff hanging, as well as an infinite array of words for all that concerns milk. Till the 1940s this ancient language in these areas was the dominant expression, and today it is kept alive by a few of those living dictionaries, as are considered the elderly.
