Celtic influence

[maher, johnpeter]

JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

> Check out Martin Luther's choice of language for his German bible.  There was
> nothing _but_ regional dialects until then.  Unless you count the language of
> the German equivalent of troubadors, which nobody used but them.

Not quite. The Upper Silesian dialect had a wide currency in many courts
outside its own region as Kanzleisprache before Luther. That's why he used it.