<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===========================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 06 September 2009 - Volume 04<br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><a href="mailto:lowlands@lowlands-l.net">lowlands@lowlands-l.net</a> - <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/">http://lowlands-l.net/</a></span><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="http://uk.mc264.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Projects<br><br>Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>Recently I wrote the following:<br><br></span></font><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Now that we are well into August -- Can you believe it? -- I offer you a little challenge, or a </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">big</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> challenge if you wish to meet it "bigly".</span></span></font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL"></span></font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">We are not too far </span></span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">away
from Halloween around whose time there are traditions that feature the
eerie, the scary, the spooky ... I am not proposing that everyone </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">celebrate</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> Halloween (and I am aware that some Christian and Islamic circles frown upon that). What I </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">am</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> proposing is a topic for discussion and for comparing and collecting cultural and linguistic tidbits. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Perhaps some of will add something of this sort to our Web presentations, such as ...</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></div>
<ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"><li>Traditions:<br><a href="http://www.lowlands-l.net/traditions/">http://www.lowlands-l.net/traditions/</a><br>e.g. spooky myths, customs and folktales<br>
<br></li><li>
Travels:<br><a href="http://www.lowlands-l.net/travels/">http://www.lowlands-l.net/travels/</a><br>e.g. haunted or otherwise spooky places to visit<br><br></li><li>Gallery:<br><a href="http://www.lowlands-l.net/gallery/">http://www.lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a><br>
e.g. your spooky stories (including retold traditional ones), poems, songs, music and/or pictures</li></ul>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Such "postable"
contributions need not be large. Written ones can be as brief as one
paragraph each and in any language variety you choose.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">If I get it together till then I'll produce sound files for the scary poems in my Klaus Groth collection:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Dat gruli Hus (The Eerie House)</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/gruli.php">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/gruli.php</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">He wak (He Woke)</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/wak.php">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/wak.php</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Dat stæhnt int Moor (Moaning on the Moor)</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor-2.php">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor-2.php</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">So, go and put your thinking hats on, folks!</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One person has answered the call: our Sandy. He submitted a story, and I have posted it in his part of our gallery:<br><br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/fleming_ferranti.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/fleming_ferranti.php</a><br>
<br>Thanks, Sandy!<br><br>We might as well start a "spooky" presentation and post or double-post "spooky" things there. I guess Sandy's story and my English translations of Groth's spooky poems are a start. <br>
<br>Another candidate is our Tom Mc Rae's "That Damned House":<br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/mcrae_house.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/mcrae_house.php</a>. Is that all right with you, Tom? <br>
<br>And then there's our Arend's "Cillie Nèvelhekse"<i>:<br></i> <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_cillie.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_cillie.php</a><br>It comes with my English translation:<br>
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_cillie-en.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_cillie-en.php</a><br><br>Arend's "Deirdre" might be suitable also:<br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_deirdre.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_deirdre.php</a><br>
<br>And his "Tanfana":<br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_tanfana.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_tanfana.php</a><br><br>And his "Grote Harold Van Börk":<br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_harold.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/victorie_harold.php</a><br>
<br>Wees' so good un schriev' mi, of ik dat doon mag, beste Arend!<br><br>And there is our Tomás Ó Cárthaigh's "Aniar a fhéachann an Bhean Amach" with its English and German translations. <br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/carty_bean.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/carty_bean.php</a><br>
An féidir liom a fháil do cead, a Thom? Seol dom teachtaireacht!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>Any further contributions to this will be very, very welcome, of course. Ideally, works should have a Lowlands angle to them, though.<br>
<br>Thanks in advance!<br><br>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;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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