Tagged for OEG Connect: Your guide to German folklore! - Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles

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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.

Where is it?: https://sunkencastles.com/

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I thought this interesting in mostly the work of one person to generate open content. Many of the translated stories are available from the MediaWiki powered wiki with many ways to navigate- a map, geographic category links, and my usual favorite, a random button.

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.