SC - Medieval Times

[Decker, Terry D.]

Actually, Huette, I think you are both correct about the tree.  Linden,
basswood, and lime tree are common English synonyms for members of the genus
Tilia and how they are used may change by region.  

Bear

> Thomas!!!
> 
> Welcome back!!!!
> 
> Your translation beat mine.  I wouldn't have attempted
> it if I had known you had resubscribed. I guess I blew
> the translation for the last verse.  Sigh.
> 
> I do have to ask this ... why lime tree and not linden
> tree?  I thought that lime was "linde" and linden was
> "linden".  
> 
> Huette
> 
> --- Thomas Gloning <gloning at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
> wrote:
> > It is an old German folk song. Roughly:
> > 
> > > Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, da steht ein Lindenbaum.
> >   Near the well before the door, stands a lime-tree