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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Arend Victorie</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:victorie.a@home.nl">victorie.a@home.nl</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.30 (03) [E]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Moi Leeglaanders,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Oldejaorsdag dan begunt 't bij oonz in 't Oogeveine al
vrog 't Dreinse kampioenschöp carbidschieten.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Dat hold in, dat der een vieftiental dielnemers in een
rij naost mekaar staot en op commando probeert umme mit een dartig liters
melkbusse </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">mit brokken carbid van zestig gram en een bèetie water
der bij </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">een voetballe of de orgienele deksel van de melkbusse die
stevig in de opening van de melkbusse past zo wied meugelijk weg te schieten.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Kiek mar ies op dizze link. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL"><a href="http://www.carbidbus.nl/Carbid1/Carbid_films/carbid_films.html" target="_blank">http://www.carbidbus.nl/Carbid1/Carbid_films/carbid_films.html</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Wieder hebt wij ok nog oonze euliebollen en as traditie
de speciale wafels de aoldejaorsknieperties en neijaorsrollegies</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">'t Bint dezölfde wafels mar an 't ende van 't olde jaor
èet wij 't kniepertien de wafel is dan gewoon plat want 't jaor is ontvolden.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">En op neijaorsdag 't neiejaorsrollegie de wafels bint dan
op-erold want dan begunt wij weer an een onbekend nei jaor</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="NL">Van dizze kaante van LL hartelijk fielsetèerd Sandy en
Roger en veur alle leeglaanders Gelok in 't neie jaor…..</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">1.<br>
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,<br>
And never brought to mind?<br>
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,<br>
And days o' auld lang syne.<br>
2.<br>
And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp!<br>
And surely I'll be mine!<br>
And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,<br>
For auld lang syne.<br>
3.<br>
We twa hae run about the braes<br>
And pu'd the gowans fine;<br>
But we've wander'd mony a weary foot<br>
Sin auld lang syne.<br>
4.<br>
We twa hae paidl'd i' the burn,<br>
Frae mornin' sun till dine;<br>
But seas between us braid hae roar'd<br>
Sin auld lang syne.<br>
5.<br>
And there's a hand, my trusty fiere!<br>
And gie's a hand o' thine!<br>
And we'll tak a right guid willy waught,<br>
For auld lang syne.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">Arend Victorie</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Van:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> Lowlands Languages & Cultures [mailto:<a href="mailto:LOWLANDS-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" target="_blank">LOWLANDS-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>]
<b>Namens </b>Lowlands-L List<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> dinsdag 30 december 2008 17:08<br>
<b>Aan:</b> <a href="mailto:LOWLANDS-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" target="_blank">LOWLANDS-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a><br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.30 (03) [E]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
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Subject: Traditions<br>
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Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
New Year's Eve is almost upon us and some of you might like to share how they
used to celebrate it in the cultural Lowlands environment of their youth and
how that differs from the way they celebrate it these days, if at all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">In Low-Saxon-speaking Northern Germany traditions vary
from location to location. The two predominant names for New Year's Eve (aside
from German <i>Sylvester</i>) are <i>Oljahrsavend</i> (<i>Oldjaarsavend</i>
"Old Year's Eve") and <i>Fastelavend</i>. The latter of these names
seems to point at some confusion that occurred with the coming of the
Reformation and the abandonment of Carnival (<i>Fastnacht</i> "fasting
night"). Some of the customs seem to have been transferred from Carnival
to New Year's Eve, probably in conjunction with pre-Christian Winter Solstice
customs. Especially the making of noise comes to mind, as does going from house
to house in disguise and singing for tokens of appreciation from the
inhabitants. This, of course, is also related to Halloween customs of Britain
and its overseas offshoots. We still followed this custom when I was a child,
and even then it was a far cry from what used to be done in earlier days when
the <i>Rummelpott</i> (known on the Netherlands side as <i>foekepot</i>, <i>rommelpot</i>,
<i>foekerommelpot</i>) used to be played (a friction drum known in Dutch as <i>rommelpot</i>,
in Danish as <i>rummelpot</i>, in Limburgish as <i>foekepot</i>, in German as <i>Brummtopf</i>,
in Italian as<i> caccavella</i>, in Spanish as<i> zambomba</i>, in Portuguese
as <i>sarronca</i>, in Romanian as <i>buhai</i>, in Ukrainian as <i>бугай</i>),
<i>köcsögduda</i>, and in Basque as <i>eltzagor</i>, all being associated with
end-of-the-year traditions and/or Martinmas).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"><br>
Here is a ditty in Low Saxon of Achterhoek on the Netherlands side of the
border:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">Foekepotterij, foekepotterij,<br>geef mien 'n cent, dan gao ik weer
veurbij.<br>ik heb geen geld um brood te kopen,<br>deurum mot ik met de foekepotte lopen.<br>Foekepotterij, foekepotterij,<br>geef mien 'n cent, dan gao ik weer
veurbij.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">And one from Northern Germany:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE">Fruken, maak de Dœr op! <br>
De Rummelpott will rin.<br>
Daar kümmt een Schipp ut Holland, <br>
de hett keen goden Wind.<br>
Schipper, wullt du wieken,<br>
Bootsmann, wullt du strieken.<br>
Sett de Segel op de Topp,<br>
und giff mi wat in´n Rummelpott!</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">And for us here at Lowlands-L New Year's Eve comes with a bonus in that it
is the birthday of our own Sandy Fleming (<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org" target="_blank">sandy@scotstext.org</a>) and Roger Thijs (<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be" target="_blank">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>),
each of them "Mr. Resources" in his own right.<br>
<br>
Happy birthday, Sandy and Roger!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<span class="apple-style-span"></span></span></p>