“Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Stanza 39.
Beppo (1818)
“Butter, bread, and green cheese: whoever cannot say that is not a true Frisian.”
Quoted in: The Linguist: Journal of the Institute of Linguists. Volumes 42-43, The Institute, 2003. p. 192
According to legend, Pier forced his captives to repeat this shibboleth to distinguish Frisians from Dutch and Low Germans.
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