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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 ...
Location: Mülheim on Ruhr, North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany
am Franz Firla, born in 1944, retired primary school teacher of German, music and history in Mülheim upon Ruhr, Germany.
Among other things, I dedicate my retirement to preservation and support of “Mölmsch Platt” (i.e. Low Franconian of Mülheim), a dialect I am in the process of studying myself and about which I have published information and literary material in an online city net.
Central in Mülheim’s linguistic heritage is the Martinmas song Sinter Mätes Vögelsche (“St. Martin’s Birdie”), a song that is at least 800 years old and belongs to a song tradition that is represented from Flanders to the Baltic Sea, especially in the Lower Rhine region.
I look forward to more information pertaining to the history of Low Franconian culture and language as well as further to discoveries regarding this song tradition. I also keep finding interesting information in various exchanges on Lowlands-L.
I wish the enterprise many more friends and years of success.
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am Franz Firla, born in 1944, retired primary school teacher of German, music and history in Mülheim upon Ruhr, Germany.