“ Though the climate is raw and good soil rare, the heath is not unfertile. Its main products are sheep—the celebrated Heidschnucken breed,—potatoes, bilberries, cranberries and honey. The district is also remarkable for the numerous Hun barrows found scattered throughout its whole extent.
See Rabe, Die Lüneburger Heide und die Bewirthschaftung der Heidhöfe (Jena, 1900) ; Kniep, Führer durch die Lüneburger Heide (Hanover, 1900) ; Linde, Die Lüneburger Heide (Lüneburg, 1905) , and Kück, Das alte Bauernleben der Lüneburger Heide (Leipzig, 1906) . ”