dom: Klabautermann

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A Klabautermann (German: [klaˈbaʊtɐˌman] ) "hobgoblin"; or Kalfater ("caulker") is a water kobold in Frisian, German and Dutch folklore that assists sailors and fishermen on the North Sea in their duties. Dutch/Belgian tales of kaboutermanneken described them as cave dwellers in mountains, who may help out humans who put out offerings of bread and butter, sometimes out in the open, but other times at their millhouse or farmstead. Belief in the Klabautermann dates to at least the 1770s, with written records beginning in the 1810s.

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The nixie, nixy, nix, neck, or nicker (Old English: nicor; Danish: nøkke; Dutch: nikker, nekker; Estonian: näkk; Faroese: nykur; Finnish: näkki; German: Nixe; Icelandic: nykur; Norwegian Bokmål: nøkk, nøkken; Nynorsk: nykk; Swedish: näck, näcken, French: neckre), are humanoid, and often shapeshifting, water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore. Under a variety of names, they are common to the stories of all Germanic peoples, although they are perhaps best known from Scandinavian folklore. The related English knucker was generally depicted as a worm or dragon, although more recent versions depict the spirits in other forms. Their sex, bynames, and various transformations vary geographi…

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The timing of nuclear falls: Evidence from Dutch, West Frisian, Dutch Low Saxon, German Low Saxon, and High German. Abstract A reading experiment was designed to examine the effects of word boundaries and metrical structure on the temporal alignment of the accentual peak and the end of the fall in nuclear rising-falling accents. Participants were speakers of a number of closely related dialects and languages from the coastal area of the Netherlands and North-West Germany, covering Zeelandic Dutch, Hollandic Dutch, West Frisian, Dutch Low Saxon, German Low Saxon, and Northern High German. Our findings suggest that in no variety is the timing of the nuclear peak or the end of the fall systema…

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North Shore of the Black Sea, Kerkinitis. Dedication by sailors, late 2nd/early1st cent. B.C.

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North Shore of the Black Sea, Kerkinitis. Dedication of sailors, early 1st cent. B.C.