[Magdalen] Derailment, Please Pray

[Christopher Hart]

Since the Hymn tune for "A Mighty Fortress" is listed as "Ein feste Burg"
I'd say that's a good guess.

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> > Frankford is actually the English equivalent of Frankfurt in  German.
> > Having
> > lived in Frankfurt/Main, Germany for 3+ years, I always assumed that
> > the "furt" was equivalent to "fort", but it isn't so.  Before Napoleon
> got
> > through with them, Frankfurt/M had the most impressive fortifications  in
> > Germany.
> >
>
> Interesting. I'm thinking "-burg" is the German equivalent of -fort(ress).
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>



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