att. stefo,
that's funny, my friend from Stuttgart says Sockenschuss, too (didn't know that the use starts as far north as Hannover...). I'm from Luebeck and used to "Hackenschuss" though I must admit that my friends from Brunsbuettel and Nordenham use it more often than those from Luebeck or Hamburg. Would be interesting to know if somebody says "Schuhschuss" or so
somewhere in Germany :-).
Yes, you're right - it all just works if misspelled...
#6 -- Ah well, live and learn.
So what was the ring with the Hackenschluss then? Here in the description of the contents of the IV Grab.
I have no idea, my guess would be that the reference is probably from a time before spelling was standardised and "Haken" was spelled "Hacken" or "Haken", but sincce I'm too stupid to find the reference in the link, anyway, I can't say for sure.
Stefo #12: I'm glad, couldn't figure it out either. Just asked my friend in Dortmund (I love skype...) about Hacken- and Sockenschuss. They use both...
Is your Google so much different from mine?
Cause I get this page with Nackenschluss. It's some sort of exercise similar to a crunch bit with your neck only.
Does this fit into the context?
That brings us back to my original supposition. That exercise is not called Nackenschluss; it's muscle stretches to relieve Nackenschluss, which is tension in the neck.
I might have been influenced by the Slovenian language, but exercises similar to crunches are called 'closing a book' because, well, your body closes like a book. I therefore thought that closing a neck would be the same thing but with your neck only. This is exactly what this webpage describes. Besides, all the other headlines are exercises as well so it would be strange if only this one described a tension. Anyway, my explanation makes perfect sense to me - but maybe to me only.