What’s of interest? Your guide to German folklore! - Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles
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Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles is an ongoing project for translating old German folklore tales into English. All translations are released under a Creative Commons Zero license, and thus can be freely copied and reused for commercial and non-commercial purposes alike, without any restrictions.
This is one among many items I will regularly tag in Pinboard as oegconnect, and automatically post tagged as #OEGConnect to Mastodon. Do you know of something else we should share like this? Just reply below and we will check it out.
I wandered via the map to Turkey for The Knight of Land Harm including the tale of a ruthless knight who died in 1369, with a royal name of Landschaden meaning “harm to land”. His son, who took up a crusade, was given by the Emporor the right to “bear the head of the slain enemy as a crest in his coat of arms”
Fun times! These stories are a sublte gold mine, and whole not specified on the wiki, the main web site shared them into the public domain using CC0.
Very cool! It took me a few minutes to figure out that it’s the wiki that’s openly licensed, not the books - and as you pointed out, there’s no license on the wiki itself.
Excited to pass this along to my friends in the ENGL department!
I spotted this in Mastodn and asked the site owner about it. They said it was “on his list to do” to add licensing to the wiki. I think he creates more polished ones opublished to his $ supporters with “commentary”
The web site states all translations they have been made are CC0- I doubt there is copyright on old fairy tales so the translations are not copyrightable.
Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles is an ongoing project for translating old German folklore tales into English. All translations are released under a Creative Commons Zero license , and thus can be freely copied and reused for commercial and non-commercial purposes alike, without any restrictions.
Translations of public domain works do fall within copyright… although I think translations done by AI are not? There’s probably a raging debate somewhere about this.
I can’t hear the drums of that debiate But this person is doing all the translations themself, no AI. And fairy tales are going to be so old and not traceable to a single author that they ought to be public domain. That seems exactly what the domain is for!
