Hansje Brinker
#nederland#folkstory#culture Hans Brinkers, main character in the story of the Haarlem boy who managed to prevent a disaster by sticking his finger into a leaky dike. The story is inextricably linked to the Netherlands, but is much more famous abroad (especially in America) than it is in the Low Countries. So it is in fact a form of 'imported folklore'. In 1866, the American writer Mary Mapes Dodg...
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