At the Wartburg Castle gift shop, I enjoyed looking at some of the books for sale. One was a collection of fairy tales. One of the stories caught my eye–the story of the wolf and the little lamb.
This caught my eye because my family name is Laemmlen, which comes from Lämmlein, meaning little lamb.
The other book that caught my eye was this book about historical occupations. I saw this book, or one very much like it many years ago when I presented a paper at a German Research seminar in California. I wanted that book and never forgot about it. It was not for sale. This time it was, and I bought it!
In this book there are some pages about shepherds. Schäfer is my Grandma Elsa’s maiden name. in 1929, she married Rudolf Laemmlen. I’ve always thought it was rather perfect that a shepherd married a little lamb.
Here are some other images of a Good Shepherd with a lamb.
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