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>"Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1157012613.190249.303200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> Heidi Graw wrote:
>
>> Franzelchen strutting his stuff, nose in the air, thumbs in his pockets,
>> "I
>> gots me a classle edumacash'n." ;-)
>>
>> Just teasing you a little... ;-)
> Franz wrote:
> Sorry if I sounded arrogant. I am no native speaker
> of English. What I meant to say was that we got
> a classical humanistic education or indoctrination:
> all about Rome, plenty about Greece and the Holy
> Land, little about Nordic mythology, almost nothing
> about Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, little about
> Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
Looks like I did a bit better out here in BC. When I first arrived, I got a
thorough induction into Native Indian tribal cultures. Canadian and US
histories. Then I was introduced to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India,
China and Africa. The only thing I learned of Europe out here in Canada was
about WWII and the Holocaust. We skipped Australia, Russia and South
America. I also learned nothing about the Nordic countries. Thor was just
a comic book character.
Essays I remember writing about were of Czechoslovakia because I liked the
name. I also had to do an oral presentation about some mythological god and
make up a story of my own. I picked Loki because I also liked that name and
he wasn't mentioned at any time in our course materials. I can't remember
what I actually wrote about him... I probably played up his trickery and
came up with all sorts of wild and crazy things...anything to annoy people.
I got an A+ for that presentation. ;-) Oh...and in my grade 7 drawing
class, I added a fig leaf to Zeus/Poseidon. I didn't think it was
appropriate for a god to be running around naked! ;-)
>>Heidi wrote:
>> Franz, you're a smart guy. Perhaps I can persuade you to study the
>> Eddas
>> in your spare time. As that Swiss Alpine person, I would think it's
>> almost
>> a duty that you do so! The Lore is in your blood, Franzelchen! Remember
>> those memes? Don't forget those memes? ;-)
> Franz wrote:
> Why don't you give us your summary of the Edda,
That's a huge undertaking...and way off topic for this newsgroup. ;-)
> Heidilein Heidemariechen Heideroeschen?
Ah well...considering we're now on a nickname basis... ;-)
It's Heiderose...or as my father used to sing, "Heideröslein." My grade 4
teacher dubbed me "Heidi."
1. Sah ein Knab ein Roslein stehn, Roslein auf der Heiden; war so jung und
morgenschon, lief er schnell, es nah zu sehn, sah's mit vielen Freuden.
Roslein, Roslein, Roslein rot, Roslein auf der Heiden.
2. Knabe sprach: Ich breche dich, Roslein auf der Heiden! Roslein sprach:
Ich steche dich, das du ewig denkst an mich, und ich will's nicht leiden.
Roslein
3. Und der wilde Knabe brach's Roslein auf der Heiden, Roslein wehrte sich
und stach, half ihm doch kein Weh aud Ach, musst es eben leiden Roslein. . .
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