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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 ...
On March 31, 2004, this translation appeared in the Ainu Times (2004/33) with reference to its publication by Lowlands-L and the Japanese
translation on which it is based.
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), Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan
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