The Drowned Land of Saeftinghe
Along the southern edge of the Netherlands, where Zeelandic Flanders once stretched green and prosperous toward the sea, there lay a land known as Saeftinghe. In its time, it was neither wild nor barren, but fertile and ordered, a patchwork of fields, dikes, villages, and grazing meadows shaped by human hands and held in uneasy balance with the waters beyond.
