LL-L 'Customs' 2006.11.13 (03) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 13 November 2006 * Volume 03
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From: 'jonny' [jonny.meibohm at arcor.de]
Subject: LL-L 'Customs' 2006.11.13 (01) [D/E/LS]

Beste Reinhard,

Du schreyvst:

> On top of it, we
> boys
> had to do a _Diener_ (literally 'servant'), which is to bow. Girls had to
> do a
> _Knicks_, namely to drop a curtsy.
>
> Them were the formal days ...

Maybe it's interesting that people of my Home-Land Kehdingen at those times
didn't teach their boys to make a 'Diener' (but I was taught to do by my parents
and old-fashioned teachers- and I soon refused it for all the rest of my life
when I started into puberty...).
I don't remember what their sisters had to do- I guess they had to make their
'Knicks' to older or very respective people. But I still remember my astonishment
when I saw my female cousins from the area of Lüneburg (a LS-area south of
Hamburg) *knicksen* to nearly everyone, incessantly...

Greutens

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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From: 'Mathias Rösel' [Mathias.Roesel at T-Online.de]
Subject: LL-L 'Customs' 2006.11.13 (01) [D/E/LS]

> From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
> Subject: Customs
> We children had to be careful to give people the "good" hand in greeting,
> sometimes also referred to as _liebe Hand_ or _nette Hand_ in childish German,

That's a notorious misnomer, originating from the all too common German
Xmas-carol Alle Jahre wieder. The last couple of lines go like

(Geht auch dir zur Seite
still und unerkannt,)
dass es wohl dich leite
an der Liebe Hand

...so as to giude you well
by the hand of Love

This Love, of course, is Christ's mercy, but people have come to imagine
Christkind to take children by their right hands and guide them. That's
how the right hand has come to be called "liebe Hand", in Germany. If
you listen carefully during the days to come, you will realize people
sing "an der lieben Hand".
-- 
Mathias

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