Niederdeutsche Denkmäler
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Niederdeutsche Denkmäler (“Low German Monuments”) is a monographic publication series issued by the Association for Low German Linguistic Research (VndS). The series is dedicated to the editing and study of historical texts in the Low German language.
It has been published in Neumünster by Wachholtz Verlag since 1876, and earlier also in Norden (Soltau) and in Bremen (Kühtmann). The first volume appeared in 1876, an edition of the manuscript of a “Seebuch” (rutter) in Middle Low German, whose origin is dated to the years 1472/73 (Part 1) and 1466/67 (Part 2).[1] The second is collection of fables in Middle Low German, preserved in a (now lost) manuscript from the early 15th century, containing the so-called “Magdeburg Aesop”.[2]
The series serves as an academic source documenting the linguistic and cultural development of Northern Germany.