East Prussian folk tale about a pagan sacred hill

Preußische-Litauisch Sprache. Rytprūsių Klaipėdos krašto šišioniškių pasaka - sakmė apie alkakalnį. This is what Northern Prussian-Lithuanian (Samogitian from Klaipėda region) dialect sounds like. It's a folk story about people's relationship with the surrounding landscape. It was believed that hills have spirits and can interact with humans.
In the Southern part of East Prussia the dialect was very different, more akin to contemporary literary Lithuanian: • Preußische-Litauisch S...
Pasakoja Iveta Kačerauskaitė iš Juknaičių Šilutės rajone.
Šios apskrities žmonės vobilion, kad senovėje šis kalnas buvo dikčium dideliai gerbiams. Ir kožnam žmogum, katrie praeidavo pro ton kalną, anie nusiimdavo kepurę ir pasakydavo: "Labs vakars, pons Alkos kalne!". Katrie žmonės to nepadarydavo, tai aniems kaip kažkokia nematoma ranka nuo galvos tą kepurę numušdavo.
Vienam mano prieteliui šis kas atsitiko:
Vieną vakarą, kuomet ans ėjo pro šalį, anas nepasisveikino su tuo kalnu, anam prie kojų tik spėjo keli rutuliai nuo kalno nuriedėt, anas tik spėjo žmogelis persižegnoti ir pasisveikinti su ton kalnu...
Ir tik tada anas išsigelbėjo nuo tos dikčium didelės nelaimės.
TRANSLATION:
People from this land say that in the olden days this hill was greatly revered and each passerby would take of his hat and say:
- Good evening to you, Mister Hill of Alka!
It was as if an invisible hand would knock off the hats for people who didn't do this.
This is what happened to one of good people. As he was passing by one evening he did not greet the Hill. Several boulders had rolled by his feet from the hill when he managed to cross himself and greet the hill just in time. And this was how he saved himself from the great disaster.

[@virino2586]

Like hearing my old relatives speak Lithuanian when I was a kid. Couldn't understand a thing.

[@jantilli3807]

Well done :) Liked it a lot. Tottelevainen ja motivoitunut mirri. Paldies! Ačiū!

[@Balticfolk]

I'd have translated that film like you've asked instead of preoccupying myself with new objectives, had I been obedient :P

[@jantilli3807]

tuhma kisu...

[@josephwarra5043]

Wonderful video, thanks

[@vulpesinculta3238]

Type "Good evening to you, Mister Hill of Alka!" or great disasters will happen to you.

[@Survivethejive]

Good evening to you, Mister Hill of Alka!

[@quiadsereferens]

Good evening to you, Mister Hill of Alka

[@MrMindaugingas]

Good evening to you, Mister Hill of Alka!

[@Asbestos_]

Labas vakaras, ponas Alkos kalne!

[@adityanawani8134]

Good evening to you,Mister Hill of Alka!

[@Haganenno121]

Baltic folk is back ooooooooooo

[@musicland1802]

Prusija -Mažoji Lietuva !!!!

[@hbecker123]

Is it a german or slavic language ? I am german, i dont understand. Or is it lithuanian? Is lithuanian an antoher language tribe?

[@Balticfolk]

It's in Lithuanian dialect that is endemic to East Prussia. Lithuanian language is from the Baltic branch of Indo-European language family. The phylogenetic distance between Lithuanian and German languages is similar to the distance between German and Slavic languages, while the distance between Lithuanian and Slavic languages is smaller - kinda like between German and French.

[@hbecker123]

@@Balticfolk Thank you for answer and for the informations. Greetings

[@Balticfolk]

@@hbecker123 You're welcome, I'm glad I could help :)

[@Crescent_2001]

@@hbecker123 Die Preußen sind erst später germanisiert worden. Die alten Prußen waren ein Baltischer Stamm

[@hbecker123]

@@Crescent_2001 Ist mir bekannt. Ich dachte zuerst dort hat sich ein ostpreußisch-deutscher Dialekt bis heute gehalten. Aber ich wusste nicht dass die baltischen Sprachen eine Sprachfamilie für sich sind.

[@alconcerto]

...padegs pieva ir ko gero mišką.

[@Balticfolk]

Filmuota prieš daugiau nei metus, nepadegė... :)

[@alconcerto]

Malonu girdėti. Dėkui.

[@frimes-rimes]

Is this lithuanian language?

[@Balticfolk]

Yes, it is a Lithuanian dialect endemic to the North-East part of East Prussia.

[@spiritrose4301]

Its a Memel Slang? A language from my ancestors from Memel ?

[@Balticfolk]

@@spiritrose4301 It is indeed :)

[@spiritrose4301]

@@Balticfolk wow! Amazing

[@paulbauer6353]

Why says the title rast prussian, thats not German?

[@Balticfolk]

East Prussia originally had nothing to do with Germans: first it was Baltic - inhabited by people who spoke a West Baltic language known as Old Prussian (Prūsa was their endoethnonym), its closest modern day sister-tongues are Lithuanian & Latvian.
Then along came the crusaders; they killed / expelled most of the natives and took over the name "Prussia", establishing German dominance there. After a peace between Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Teutonic Order was made (Treaty of Melno), some of the descendants of previously expelled native Old Prussians have returned to Prussia. But after having spent quite a bit of time in Lithuania they had switched to Lithuanian language which they brought back to Prussia. We're talking about 14th-15th century here.
This is what you hear in the video: East Prussian dialect of Lithuanian language :)

[@Trottellumme123]

@@Balticfolk Many of the natives, the Baltic Prussians, were killed or they were expelled, but not most of them. Actually most of them stayed, dominated by the Teutonic order. Finally they mixed with the immigrants. Their language died in the 17th century.

[@rudolfkraffzick642]

Balticfolk: The Prussian language "died" between 1700 and 1750 - in the public.
It got mixed with immigrants from Samogitia, proper (eastern) Lithuania and of course from Germany. But did survive a lot of Prussian words, family names and names of settlements, lakes, rivers and of course "supersticious" pagan customs and beliefs in remote villages. This history of the simple people has only been published after the collaps of communism and so it is still widely unknown.

[@user-sf3wx5og1e]

лобасы :)

[@lukassenkevicius9968]

Йцуген Канатов vatnikas

[@vytautassulcas6494]

лоб это чело, следовательно человеки это лобасы