I found a youtube of some seniors singing a sea shanty in one of the local dialects (it is similar to that of nearby Dutch provinces which were once all the same country).
A friend of mine is from that area; he explained that his mum taught him German rather than Danish.
One evening we had gone to tbe pub with some of the folk from the housing co-op; after I had drunk some 5 litres of beer he suddenly decided to start speaking to me entirely in German. I was just about able to keep up the conversation although as I had recently started learning Dutch occasionally slipped into “plattduutsch” (introducing various words from NL) so sounded like Käpt’n Blaubär (he could still understand me).
This is a German kids TV character who is from the same region, usually shown on Die Sendung mit der Maus alternating with Shaun das Schaf.
He lives on his ship his 3 grandchildren [whom he tells various tall stories about his bravery and skillls at navigation] and a rat who works in the engine room, although the ship has run aground 50km up a mountain :laugh_at:
