Note 1 — From ‘Simplicissimus,’ Book I, Chapter 4: The hero’s childhood; brutal soldiers plunder his foster-father’s house and outrage the inmates.
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Knäns = Vaters; Spessart dialect, like Meuder = Mutter below.
2. Krempelmarkt = Trödelmarkt.
3. Steine, i.e. Feuersteine, ‘gun-flints.’ They were held in by a screw.
4. Massen = wie denn.
5. Raitelten, ‘twisted.’
6. Zerstrobelt = zerschlagen.
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