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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 ...

Cornish

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Translation, Narration and Transcription: Daniel Ryan Prohaska

Location: St. Gallen (Switzerland)

Language information: Cornish is the original Brythonic Celtic language of Cornwall. It is closely related to Welsh (Wales), Breton (France) and the now extinct Gaulish language of France. It is more distantly related to the Goidelic Celtic languages Manx, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Shelta.

Genealogy: Indo-European > Celtic > Insular > Brythonic

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