As a Flemish speaker, the original tekst seems to be closer to German than (modern) Flemish. Expressions like "ganz allein" seems more natural to German than "

As a Flemish speaker, the original tekst seems to be closer to German than (modern) Flemish. Expressions like "ganz allein" seems more natural to German than "gans alleen" to Flemish. But our language also evolved a lot, so probably this should be some study of the old language that was spoken here before they emigrated to Poland. Interesting none the less. On the other hand "mjer" was translated to "sea", which looks totally wrong from Flemish standpoint: zee=sea, meer=lake. If you say "mjer" to me, it sounds like "meer"(=lake), not "zee"(=sea).