GRGR (13): Schwarzknabe, Schwindel, Gruss Gott

[Derek C. Maus]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

>  In all 3 cases ( see GRC, p. 152, 160) Weisenburger's translation is wrong.  
>  "Schwarzknabe" is "Black-boy"

And also has undertones of "Black Jack" if I remember my card-playing
lingo correctly. The Jack in a German deck of cards is referred to both as
a "Bub" (pronounced, to the delight of American servicemen, roughly as
"boob") and more colloquially as "Der Knabe." Or at least it was around
the card table that my Southern Hessian relatives played at.

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