Kensborg
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Kensborg
- (Elbingian Low Prussian) Königsberg (the historical capital of East Prussia, today in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia; modern Kaliningrad)
- 1862, Robert Dorr, Twöschen Wiessel on Noacht: Plattdietsche Gedichte, (published by Neumann-Hartmannsche Buchhandlung in Elbing), page 17 ():
- He brocht von Kensborch Schwärenoot
Ganz warm uk frösch en Bekkerbrood.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1897, Robert Dorr, Tweschen Wiessel on Nagt: Plattdeutsche Gedichte und Dichtungen, second edition (published by C. Meißner in Elbing), page 24 ():
- He brocht von Kensborg, Schwerenoth,
Ganz warm uk fresch en Bäckerbrod.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1862, Robert Dorr, Twöschen Wiessel on Noacht: Plattdietsche Gedichte, (published by Neumann-Hartmannsche Buchhandlung in Elbing), page 17 ():
Further reading
- H. Frischbier, Preußisches Wörterbuch: Ost- und Westpreußische Provinzialismen in alphabetischer Folge, volume 1 (A-K) (published in 1882 by Enslin in Berlin), cites the line by Dorr (1862) as "He brocht von Kensborch, schwere Noot, / Ganz warm uk frösch en Beckerbrot."