[COMPLETE]The desirable alien at home in Germany/V Hunt-ans
Hi Paul, Section 12, A Landgräfin and her Confessor:
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/desirablealien_12_hunt_128kb.mp3
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17:35
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Barbara
Charlemagne's signature! (or his mark, rather)
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/desirablealien_12_hunt_128kb.mp3
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17:35
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Barbara
Charlemagne's signature! (or his mark, rather)
At last, Paul, Section 13 - Lions and Lace Curtains
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/desirablealien_13_hunt_128kb.mp3
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22:40
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Barbara
I googled Hildesheim, where you "are in the Middle Ages", and read that it had taken Bomber Command only 17 minutes to destroy it.
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/desirablealien_13_hunt_128kb.mp3
M:S
22:40
Best,
Barbara
I googled Hildesheim, where you "are in the Middle Ages", and read that it had taken Bomber Command only 17 minutes to destroy it.
I guess a Middle Ages town is more wood than stone so fairly flimsy compared to wartime bombs - of course, these days even stone wouldn't be enough.
Anyway, section 13 was another tour-de-force on your part - PL OK.
Cheers,
Paul
Anyway, section 13 was another tour-de-force on your part - PL OK.
Cheers,
Paul
Section 14, Grand Dukes and Gipsies:
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/desirablealien_14_hunt_128kb.mp3
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Barbara
And, in case you haven't had enough of Pied Piper poetry yet , here's Goethe's take on him (set to music):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ63dJ1__ok
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/desirablealien_14_hunt_128kb.mp3
M:S
18:18
Best,
Barbara
And, in case you haven't had enough of Pied Piper poetry yet , here's Goethe's take on him (set to music):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ63dJ1__ok
Section 14/Chapter 13 (confusing!) PL OK
I remember seeing the Pied Piper legend painted on the side of a house on one visit to Germany but it was a long way form Hamelin. Bavaria somewhere, might have been Oberammergau? Many of the houses were decorated with motifs of folk tales. I don't know if the decorations predated the Grimm brothers or were inspired by them but it was quite a spectacle.
I remember seeing the Pied Piper legend painted on the side of a house on one visit to Germany but it was a long way form Hamelin. Bavaria somewhere, might have been Oberammergau? Many of the houses were decorated with motifs of folk tales. I don't know if the decorations predated the Grimm brothers or were inspired by them but it was quite a spectacle.
Section 15, Paul:
Great Danes, Geese, Mice and Schoolmasters
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/desirablealien_15_hunt_128kb.mp3
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31:50
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Barbara
Great Danes, Geese, Mice and Schoolmasters
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/desirablealien_15_hunt_128kb.mp3
M:S
31:50
Best,
Barbara
Thanks, Paul. You inspired me to Google. I hope you enjoy trivia too. The German name is Deutsche Dogge*. The French name is Dogue Allemand. The English name used to be "German boarhound" then, as tempers flared, the breed name was changed to "grand danois" (from Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière).
*Dogge, because they were bred in the early C17 from English Mastiffs imported into German courts as canine body guards for princes. So my guess is that there was some lingering social cachet in being accompanied everywhere by a Great Dane.
Best,
Barbara
Exactly, so now Sweden has had to acknowledge that its eponymous meatballs are actually Turkish and were adopted after some sort of affray with the Ottoman Empire. As "Örjan, the Forlorn" from Swedish Tourism admitted: "My whole life has been a lie".
Barbara