"Low german" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of us" finds kin in the Modern High German Muttersohn, Mutterkind, which, with the even more significant Muttermensch (human being), takes us back to the days of "mother-right." Rather different, however, is the idea called up by the corresponding Middle Low German modersone, which means ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... Muttersohn, Mutterkind, which, with the even more significant Muttermensch (human being), takes us back to the days of "mother-right." Rather different, however, is the idea called up by the corresponding Middle Low German modersone, which means "bastard, ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... alluded to in an ancient Low German poem in honour of St. Anno of Cologne. Speaking of the Four Beasts of ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... degree of Doctor of Philosophy conferred upon her, when only seventeen years of age. The daughter of the Professor of Philosophy in that University, she from her earliest years discovered an uncommon genius for learning. Before she was three years of age, she was taught Low German, a language almost foreign to her own. Before she was six, she had learned French and German, and then she began geometry; and after receiving ten lessons, she was able to answer very difficult questions. The English, Italian, ...
— Books and Authors - Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches • Anonymous
... lay of Marie de France, 'Le Lai del Freisne.' This tale of Breton origin is three hundred years older than any manuscript of the ballad. Comparison will, however, quickly show that it is not the source either of the English or of the Low German and Scandinavian ballad. The tale and the ballads have a common source, which lies further back, and too far for us to find." Your lane, alone. Braw, finely dressed. Gear, goods. But and, and also. Stown, stolen. Leugh, laughed. Loot, ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.) |
