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The Singing Lily Tree: Folktales From Flanders: Part One |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM |
| Author: Jan Knappert |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 4,075 Words, 22,827 Characters |
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The merchant thought that such a flower would be impossible to find, but he felt obliged to go in search of it nevertheless. Then he asked his younger daughter what she wanted on his homecoming. "The Singing Lily Tree," she answered. Her father thought that this would be even more difficult to acquire. Still, he promised to find such a tree, if it existed at all.
So he set out on his business trip. When he had achieved his end he decided to return home. He had not forgotten his darling daughters' requests, so he began his search.
One day, as he was traveling through a lonely country, he perceived a lovely smell, as if a hundred roses were blooming. He decided to travel in the direction of that smell, trying to establish the direction from which it came. The aroma gradually became str...
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...nd that is used in all teaching and lecturing up to university level. Innumerable scientific and other scholarly works are published in Nederlandish daily; it is also the language of the state bureaucracies, local governments, radio, and television. The differences between Dutch and Flemish are little more than those found between the use of English in England, Scotland, and the United States.
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