SimonRoyHughes

SimonRoyHughes, 10 hours ago to folklore

Did you know that the first choice of title for Asbjørnsen & Moe was an imitation of the Grimms’: “Norwegian Folk- and Children’s Tales”? Did you know their publisher wanted them to publish by subscription (crowd funding)? Did you know the publisher withdrew support when too few subscriptions were sold?

A translation here: https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/subscription-invitation-1840

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SimonRoyHughes, 2 days ago to random

Gentlefolk of every stripe, this is it. You don’t get a second opportunity. So, live it well.

eivind, 5 days ago to histodons

OTD, 7 May 1945, the Norwegian paper Aftenposten published literary Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun's Hitler obituray. @histodons

SimonRoyHughes, 7 days ago to folklore

Revisiting my notes on The Three Bears, and I have a question about "Scrapefoot," which was discovered by Joseph Jacobs in 1894, and may predate Robert Southey’s version.

It tells of three bears in a castle, which are visited by Scrapefoot, a cunning fox. Scrapefoot takes their milk, chairs, beds...

Could it have been a tale in the Reynard cycle?

https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/meft/meft20.htm

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SimonRoyHughes, 8 days ago to folklore

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SimonRoyHughes, 9 days ago to folklore

#WritersCoffeeClub - 3. May: Does your work include pictures, maps or other custom graphics?

Yes. More than 350 illustrations by various Norwegian artists, such as August Schneider, Erik Werenskiold, Theodor Kittelsen, P. N. Arbo, Hans Gude, Otto Sinding, Vincent St. Lerche, Adolph Tidemand, and Johan Eckersberg.

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SimonRoyHughes, 11 days ago to folklore

Norwegian Folktales: Forgotten Variants.

Bloggity blog.

(Sometimes I feel as if all I do is announce plans without publishing anything. That will change, once Asbjørnsen & Moe is released.)

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https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/for-my-next-trick-forgotten-variants

SimonRoyHughes, 12 days ago to folklore

Stay safe out there tonight, ladies!

#WalpurgisNacht #Folklore @folklore

SimonRoyHughes, 13 days ago to folklore

“Do you want to buy a sow today?” said the boy. “It’s both a big sow, a good sow, and a rightly fat sow,” he said.

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SimonRoyHughes, 14 days ago to folklore

Parts of the whole Asbjørnsen & Moe collection have been translated and published before me. I am critical of every one that I have seen (which doesn’t necessarily mean I hate them). I am also critical of nearly every review of these translations I have read.

Any work of translation is a statement from the translator, and should therefore be approached with scepticism. Reviewers ought not comment on matters they know not of, such as faithfulness to the original, publishing histories, original editions, etc.

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Now I’m off to bed, to dream of similar rosy reviews of my work…

SimonRoyHughes, 14 days ago to literature

Readers Digest = Volksbücher

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SimonRoyHughes, 17 days ago to folklore

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SimonRoyHughes, 18 days ago to folklore

Mountain Scenes: A Reindeer Hunt in the Rondane Mountains

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SimonRoyHughes, 18 days ago to linguistics

A girl at school felt ill, and had to go home. Of course, we need to establish contact with the family before we release a kid, so I got her to ring home. She rang a contact, showed me the screen on her phone, to let me see who she was ringing, and the word on the screen was one I didn't recognise.

She finished the conversation, and I asked her about the word. Arabic for pappa, she told me (transliterated into the Latin alphabet). So I asked her about the word for mama, and so on. The conversation lasted all of a minute, but it was as if this girl grew a couple of inches -- a teacher was interested in HER background. She left smiling, despite feeling ill.

Arabic is my no means a small language, but it is where I live, and so the same mechanisms this opinion piece describes ("You must change to please us.") are all too often apparent from day to day.

Show a little curiosity, rather. Learn a little from those whose perspactive is different from yours. And above all, respect other people and their backgrounds -- they are as valuable as you think you are.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/language-speak-big-slovene-english-german

#language #culture #pluralism #schoolwork #learning

mrundkvist, 19 days ago to academia

Want to see a bizarre alternative academic career? Look at mine: failed to get into the teaching precariat, got a part time job editing a research journal, learned early how to get $3000 grants, published eight books and 40 journal papers, ended up a full-time research scholar at a Polish university from age 47. And my kids didn't starve or want! I don't know the official yardstick of success in #academia. But personally I am satisfied.

#archaeology

SimonRoyHughes, 19 days ago to folklore

“There is no mention of the devil in the oldest accounts of these women who fare abroad in Holda’s company by night; he was only introduced later. But the whole thing is reminiscent of Odin when the witches are called caped riders. Their intercourse with the devil, and his choice of the one he likes best as witch queen on Walpurgis night is probably associated with the wedding feasts of Odin and Freya, which were celebrated at these times. It is likely that folklore has attached to these wedding dances the idea that the witches dance the snow off Bloksberg on the night of 1st May.”

— Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1859.

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SimonRoyHughes, 20 days ago to folklore

Smack him!

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SimonRoyHughes, 21 days ago to folklore Norwegian Bokmål

You can't always get what you want...🎶

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"Swill and scraps and sleep in a sty."

SimonRoyHughes, 22 days ago to folklore

Beware the nisse.

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mrundkvist, 27 days ago to languagelearning

Y, most Anglophones will agree, is a consonant. Swedes however consider it a vowel for a complex set of reasons that will confuse Anglophones.

1. Swedish doesn't have the 'dj' consonant sound in judge, jam, Jones.

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#language

SimonRoyHughes, 27 days ago to random

Today I received a message telling me that a couple of kids were going to be late for school because they had to run away from a moose (Alces alces, usually called an elk in Europe).

SimonRoyHughes, 28 days ago to folklore

Hm! I appear to be finished. I'll fiddle with the introductory and conclusory paragraphs for a bit, and then start sending them off for editing.

Publication late this summer?

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