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About the story
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 ...

Sahsisk

Sahsisk

Old Saxon


Listen to this translation narrated with hypothetical pronunciation:

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Translator & Narrator: Reinhard F. Hahn

Location: Seattle and San Francisco (USA)

Language information: Old Saxon is the primary ancestor of Low Saxon and one of the main ancestors of English. Its original region is Northern Albingia, an area north of the Lower Elbe. Old Saxon was used from Southern Schleswig in the north to the Harz Mountains in the south, from close to the Ijssel Sea in the west to about Kiel and Lauenburg in the east. In some western and northern border regions it overlapped with Frisian, Low Franconian, Anglish and Jutish, in southern regions with German and in eastern regions with Western Slavonic. In more recent times, Old Saxon has been referred to as “Old Low German” (Altniederdeutsch) in Germany, the more accurate name “Old Saxon” (Altsächsisch) being confined to certain academic circles. [Click here for more.]


Click here for different versions. >[Period Script] [Modern Script]   



 


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