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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Heiko Evermann</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:heiko.evermann@gmx.de">heiko.evermann@gmx.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Tradition" 2009.08.10 (07) [EN]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi Sandy,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im"><br>
> In Scotland the Sandman was someone who came at night and sprinkled sand in<br>
> your eyes to make you sleep. This sand was still there when you woke up, of<br>
> course.<br>
><br>
> I was very surprised when I moved to Wales and discovered that nobody I<br>
> mentioned it to there had heard of this.<br>
</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It is well-known in Germany. We even have it on TV almost every day:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandm%C3%A4nnchen" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandm%C3%A4nnchen</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
"Unser Sandmännchen, Das Sandmännchen, Abendgruß, Sandmann,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Sandmännchen (Little Sandman) is a German children's bedtime</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
television programme using stop motion animation. The puppet was based</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
on a character by Hans Christian Andersen."</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>
Heiko</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Tradition" 2009.08.10 (05) [EN]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In reply to sandy's comments</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
about popularity of the sandman in scotland vs wales</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
i am assuming this is yet another case where US (or at least my</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
parents' part of it) shows STRONG scots influence</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
the highlands games here are in fact held here in North Carolina I</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
believe ... though I have never been around when they take place ....</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
mike || U C > || мика || माईक || マイク || ሚካኤል</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id=":cd" class="ii gt">+++++<br>
(( Michael W Morgan, PhD ))<br>
to be Assistant Professor in Linguistics<br>
Ethiopian Sign Language & Deaf Studies Program<br>
Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)<br>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
Yo afaan wali galle malee, diina keenya il en manque.</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Traditions<br><br>Mike, folks,<br><br>I don't know how firmly the Sandman figure is anchored in Scottish culture. But in the case of the USA you can rarely be sure about the ethnic origin of a tradition. The Sandman tradition is very strong in German tradition, was featured particularly strongly in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and German immigration rivals that of Scottish immigration I believe.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">By the way, highland game traditions are found in several places in the US. Here in Washington State alone we have at least four of them: Enumclaw (<a href="http://www.sshga.org/home.htm">http://www.sshga.org/home.htm</a>), Tacoma (<a href="http://www.tacomagames.org/">http://www.tacomagames.org/</a>), Bellingham (<a href="http://www.bhga.org/">http://www.bhga.org/</a>), and Mount Vernon (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/mwhjr8">http://tinyurl.com/mwhjr8</a>), and they aren't exactly small affairs. I agree that there are all indications that Scottish influences in the USA are strong, and I believe that most of them are not generally recognized. I found them to be much stronger in Australia, or at least more recognizable.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I find it interesting that Sandy found there to be a lack of knowledge about the Sandman tradition in Wales. Had he not told us this I would have suspected that the Sandman tradition, though apparently it evolved much earlier, was spread throughout Northern Europe during the Romantic Movement of the 19th century when international communication had vastly improved and literary works came to be translated on a larger scale than ever before.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am pretty sure that H. C. Andersen did not pluck his character Ole Lukøje (originally spelled Ole Lukøie)* out of thin air, and the alternative name Jo(h)n Blund (</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">blund</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 'wink (of sleep)') in Swedish and Norwegian (aside from Ole Lukkøye in Norway) seems to be indication of this. What if such a character already existed in medieval Scandinavian folklore and was imported to Scotland?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">* Danish original: <a href="http://www2.kb.dk/elib/lit//dan/andersen/eventyr.dsl/hcaev016.htm">http://www2.kb.dk/elib/lit//dan/andersen/eventyr.dsl/hcaev016.htm</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> English translation: <a href="http://www.portitude.org/literature/andersen/ft-ole_lukoie.php">http://www.portitude.org/literature/andersen/ft-ole_lukoie.php</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">P.S.: This is a German song I was sung to sleep by when I was little:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="DE">Die Blümelein sie schlafen</span></b></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="DE"><br>
Worte: Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio (1803-1869)<br>
Weise: mündlich überliefert</span></p>
<ol style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="DE">Die Blümelein sie schlafen schon längst im
Mondenschein.<br>
Sie nicken mit dem Köpfen auf ihren Stängelein.<br>
Es rüttelt sich der Blütenbaum, er säuselt wie im Traum:<br>
Schlafe, schlafe du, mein Kindlein schlafe ein<br><br></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="DE">Die Vöglein sie sangen so süß im
Sonnenschein.<br>
Sie sind zur Ruh´gegangen in ihre Nestlein klein.<br>
Das Heimchen in dem Ährengrund, es tut allein sich kund:<br>
Schlafe, schlafe du, mein Kindlein schlafe ein.<br><br></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="DE"><b>Sandmännchen </b>kommt geschlichen und guckt
durchs Fensterlein.<br>
Ob irgend noch ein Liebchen nicht mag zu Bette sein.<br>
Und wo es nur ein Kindchen fand streut es ins Aug´ ihm Sand.<br>
Schlafe, schlafe du, mein Kindlein schlafe ein.<br> <br></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="DE"><b>Sandmännchen </b>aus dem Zimmer, es schläft mein
Herzchen fein,<br>
es ist gar fest verschlossen schon sein Guckauge klein.<br>
Es leuchtet morgen mir Willkomm das Äugelein so fromm!<br>
Schlafe, schlafe, schlaf du, mein Kindelein.</span></li></ol>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Listen: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YocrwbobWVU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YocrwbobWVU</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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