Atlaans

Example text
"Oh nee!" plach een armseliga holtsnitter wen he abzet haar aks in een tiefa teech. Een friendselig vaater geest kom su hich med een silber aks en fraach, "Ar dies deen?"

"Nee," saach de holtsniter.

De geest kom shuruch med een goldena aks.

"Ar dies deen?" fraach se.

"Nee," saach de holtsniter.

Dan de geest kom su hich med haar zimpel holt aks.

"Das daar ar meen!" saach de holtsniter froolich.

"Du ar sho eerlich," saach de vaater geest, "neem de goldena en de silber aks ooch!"

Ouf vech heem de holtsniter tref een reecha handler. As de handler hoor de gezishte fon de holtsniter, he ren su de teech en abzet shogar haar eegena holt aks daarin.

"Oh nee!" plach he.

De geest kom su hich med een silber aks.

"Das daar ar meen!" saach de handler snel.

"Du vees es ar niet," saach de geest en fersvina.

De reecha man'se holt aks bleeb ouf de boden fon de tiefa teech.

English

"Woe is me!" a poor woodcutter cried when he dropped his ax into a deep pond. A friendly water spirit appeared before him with a silver ax and asked, "Is this yours?"

"No," the woodcutter said.

The spirit returned with a golden ax.

"Is this yours?" she asked.

"No," said the woodcutter.

Then the spirit appeared with his plain wooden ax.

"That one is mine!" said the woodcutter happily.

"You've been so honest," said the spirit, "take the gold and silver ax too!"

On the way home the woodcutter met a rich merchant. When the merchant heard the woodcutter's tale, he ran to the pond and dropped his wooden ax in.

"Woe is me!" he cried.

The spirit appeared with a silver ax.

"That one is mine!" the merchant said quickly.

"You know it is not," said the spirit, and disappeared.

The rich man's wooden ax stayed on the bottom of the deep pond.