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Inventing German
We’re now deep in the heart of Bavaria. The language here is not like that of where we started in Thuringia, where High German is spoken. Here the “r”s are trilled with the tongue, not the throat, and the vocabulary … Continue reading
Designing Bibles
Today we’re in Coburg, where Luther lived for six months in 1530 during the Diet of Augsburg—his friends wouldn’t let him attend, worried for his safety—and worked on his translation of the Old Testament while hanging around the castle. (If … Continue reading






















