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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 ...
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format, which makes it possible to compress audio samples to an acceptable
file size.
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When opening a language page, you will immediately see if there’s a sound file
available for that language. (In some cases there are more than one.) If so,
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“Play”
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computer (using the “Download mp3” link).
Alternatively, or in addition, you might want
to provide a sound recording that goes with any of the available written versions.
We welcome more than
one recording for the same version. Use any of the common sound file formats.
(We prefer Wave and MP3 though.) You do not know how to do that? You would
prefer to do the low-tech thing and send a cassette tape instead? Sure! Contact
us, and we can make arrangements:
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perhaps we can work out a way of transmission without risking
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tried to send a 12MB file, and that cause all manner of problems!) In order
to
assure
that
your
mailing
does
not end
up
rejected
by the SPAM filter,
please
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sure “LL-L” or “Lowlands-L” is somewhere in the subject line.
As soon as we can manage we will post some simple recording instructions here.
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