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What’s with this “Wren” thing?
The oldest extant version of the fable
we
are presenting here appeared in 1913 in the first volume of a two-volume anthology
of Low
Saxon folktales (Plattdeutsche
Volksmärchen “Low German Folktales”)
collected by Wilhelm Wisser (1843–1935). Read
more ...
was born in June 1941, and my earliest memories include wartime city scenes, air raids. At the age of twenty-something I got an irresistible urge to travel that led me to hitchhike around Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. I finally landed in Antwerp, where I spent three years, got me a bunch of friends and a spouse, started to learn the language, eventually returned to Finland.
I’ve been working as a translator since 1981, mainly for television, but I’ve done books too, from English and Dutch.
I joined the Lowlands community some seven years ago, to my great satisfaction.
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was born in June 1941, and my earliest memories include wartime city scenes, air raids. At the age of twenty-something I got an irresistible urge to travel that led me to hitchhike around Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. I finally landed in Antwerp, where I spent three years, got me a bunch of friends and a spouse, started to learn the language, eventually returned to Finland.