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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 ...
Man ifrina t’qeshi, gadaufrina gzis mosakhvevs da tsot’a khnis shemdeg
loms ch’amoech’ia.
Magram beghuras sulats ar sheshinebia. Is daeshva lomis zurgze da chkhubi
dauch’qo: “Ra saqme gqonda chems sakhlshi rom mokhvedi da ase shemishine bavshvebig!” — o.
Lomma mas quradgheba ar miaqtsia da gza ganagrzho.
Aman beghura ufro gaabraza da uaresad dauch’qo loms chkhubi: “Shen araferi
gesaqmeba chems sakhlshi, da tu ertkhel kidev mokhval me gichveneb seirs” —
tqva man da tsali fekhi ach’ia — “me ar minda amis gaketeba, magram itsode
erti fekhis dart’qmit zurgs chagit’ekhav” — o.
Am sit’qvebit beghura tavisi budisken gafrinda.
“Ai bavshvebo” — tqva man — “me sashinel loms ch’kua vasch’avle da is
ukan dabrunebas vegharasodes gabedavs” — o.