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Show Beginning of Antwerp. Antwerp it is said, takes its name fSm a castle which in Frankish timet marked the site of the city. This castle cas-tle was built to protect the entrance of the Scheldt, and to prevent foreign traders introducing goods into the country without paying toll to the sovereign lord. The penalty for theft and smuggling was in those days the cutting off of a hand, and, as in this case, the severed members were thrown into the Scheldt, the castlt came to be known as Andhunerbo (or, in Flemish, Antwerpen), "the place of handthrowing." The castle and two severed hands appear on the city arms to this day. |