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Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, George Rex, the British born entrepreneur who founded the town of Knysna and was rumoured to have been an illegitimate son of King George III.
Possibly her greatest legacy however is the publication of a collection of folk tales which in her own words "… are the common property of every country child in South Africa." By the time she published "Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales" in 1914, South Africa had come through a time of great turmoil. There had been years of conflict between the Boer settlers, the Zulus and the British. The arrival of peoples from all over the world seeking gold and diamonds together with the advent of the railroads, was opening up the country and changing society. Sanni was afraid that many of the old traditions and stories would be lost and so set down these few for posterity.
She also stated " I greatly regret that (the stories) appear here in what is, to them, a foreign tongue. No one who has not heard them in the Taal - that quaint, expressive language of the people - can have any idea of what they lose through translation, but, having been written in the first instance for English publications, the original medium was out of the question." However, even The Taal (which in South Africa refers to Afrikaans) would not have been the language from whence these tales originated. They came from the oral traditions of the indigenous peoples of South Africa .
The storyteller is Outa Karel, an old family retainer and though they are told here in English, there are several words and expressions in the "Taal". There is however an excellent Glossary at the beginning of the book which is read as a separate file for reference.
( Noel Badrian)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/outakarelsstorie00meterich
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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BC Admin - Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Sanni Metelerkamp) : n/a
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 15
- Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: Yes
- Original publication date (if known): 1914
- If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
Genres for the project: Fantastic Fiction/Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales;
Keywords that describe the book: South Africa, animal stories, folk lore
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[*]The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):
- "Chapter [number] of Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales, by Sanni Metelerkamp. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
- "Chapter [number] of Outa Karel’s Stories by Sanni Metelerkamp. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Chapter title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Chapter]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales, by Sanni Metelerkamp. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
[*]Example filename outakarelsstories_##_metelerkamp_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. outakarelsstories_01_metelerkamp_128kb.mp3)
[*]Example ID3 V2 tags
Artist: Sanni Metelerkamp
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales
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I seem to have miss-counted and needed to add another section but do not know how to fill in the "Reader" box in the MW. 
Then you scroll down to find the right name and click on it. Then hit 'add'.
