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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 ...
Sahsisk
Old Saxon
Listen to this translation
narrated with hypothetical pronunciation:
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.]
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