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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: Bungerëf/Bigonville/Bondorf, Luxembourg; previously Pittsburgh (Deyohatéhsö’), Pennsylvania, USA
orn in Pennsylvania, millennia ago, I was originally a grade school teacher. I left teaching to go into business for myself, and because of an auto accident. (I was hit by a car. Would that be a pedestrian accident?) I had to retire and take disability. I now live in the northern part of Luxembourg, in a village named Bungerëf (Bigonville en français).
My father was Swedish-Bavarian (sounds like a dessert with lingonberries, doesn’t it) my mother was Carpatho-Rusyn, and both parents spoke different languages.
Culturally and religiously I took after my mother, learning Rusyn in the dreaded
Saturday Руськя Школа (Rus’kaja
Škola) for ten long and suffering years. I did, however, learn some Swedish from my
father’s people and studied German throughout my school years. The only thing
that I learned in Bavarian was the Insa vadar (Lord’s Prayer) from my grandmother. Other than language study that I had while
in school, I have had no other professional training; languages and dialects
are my chef hobby. Saarländisch was my first experience (well second after the ill-fated Insa vadar attempt) in the German dialects.
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orn in Pennsylvania, millennia ago, I was originally a grade school teacher. I left teaching to go into business for myself, and because of an auto accident. (I was hit by a car. Would that be a pedestrian accident?) I had to retire and take disability. I now live in the northern part of Luxembourg, in a village named Bungerëf (Bigonville en français).