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L O W L A N D S - L * 27 November 2005 * Volume 01
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From: "Ingmar Roerdinkholder" <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: L-L "Language learning" 2005.11.27 (02) [E]

A question for the list, and especially Gary Taylor: some time ago I found
out Gary made a Proto-Germanic course for beginners, which I found very
interesting, also because I'm working together with a small group at an
Inter-Germanic artlang called Folkspraak. My own Middelsprake is now
becoming part of that. Below is the so-called Proto-Indo-European fable
about the sheep and the horses. It's quite old already, about 150 years or
so, but the first version was far too Sanskrit.

My question is: do you have a Proto-Germanic version of this fable?

[Gwrei] owis, kwesyo wlhna ne est, ekwons espeket, oinom ghe gwrum woghom
weghontm, oinomkwe megam bhorom, oinomkwe ghmenm oku bherontm. Owis nu
ekwobh(y)os ewewkwet: Ker aghnutoi moi ekwons agontm nerm widntei. Ekwos
tu ewewkwont: Kludhi, owei, ker aghnutoi nsmei widntbh(y)os: ner, potis,
owiom r wlhnam sebhi gwhermom westrom kwrneuti. Neghi owiom wlhna esti.
Tod kekluwos owis agrom ebhuget.
(version published by Winfred Lehmann and Ladislav Zgusta in 1979)

English translation:
On a hill, a sheep that had no wool saw horses, one of them pulling a
heavy wagon, one carrying a big load, and one carrying a man quickly. The
sheep said to the horses: "My heart pains me, seeing a man driving
horses". The horses said: "Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see
this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment
for himself. And the sheep has no wool". Having heard this, the sheep fled
into the plain.

Ingmar

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