SimonRoyHughes

SimonRoyHughes, 5 months ago to folklore

Are you looking for some hitherto unknown fairy tales to buy as a present for the book-lover in your life? May I suggest a volume of 20 folk- and fairy tales by the Norwegian writer, Regine Normann?

@bookstodon #HolidaySeason #ChristmasPresents #GiftIdeas #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/ringelihorn-and-other-tales-from-northern-norway

SimonRoyHughes, 5 months ago to random

Probably not going to cycle to work tomorrow.

SimonRoyHughes, 5 months ago to random

Who burst into a furious tirade? Was this passage written on a Saturday evening, when Rowling likes to drink?

SimonRoyHughes, 5 months ago to random

Ok, that's enough of that shithead.

If we could all forget he ever existed – except when someone else mentions him, whereupon we literally spit on his memory – that'd be great.

Oh, and maybe murder an oligarch or two, in remembrance of all his millions of victims.

#Kissinger #NobelPeacePrize

SimonRoyHughes, 5 months ago to random

Even though the sun is effectively below the horizon (actually behind the mountains until mid January), it does sometimes show us where it is.

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to folklore

There will be an e-book edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends Asbjørnsen & Moe, but it will take me a little while to produce it.

https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/e-book

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to random

Looks like I'm going to have to learn the intricacies of the ePub format, too. (The dropcap is suddenly at the bottom of the page, above unlinked footnotes.)

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to folklore

Since my website is now a blog again, I'm blogging.

This time on my evolving plans for publication.

Tl;dr: Three different editions, for three different kinds of reader, to be published in 2024. Details here:

https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/forthcoming-publication

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to folklore

Seeing as the image of a princess riding on a white bear suits the folktales but not the legends, I made an ornament that better suits Norwegian legends: a wild reindeer ride.

(Ibsen has Peer Gynt boasting of the feat, bit the folklore puts someone else in the high seat.)

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

Detail view of the ornament of a man riding a panicked reindeer.

Diego_L_Morales, 6 months ago to random

@SimonRoyHughes

Thanks for the info! Hope to see a translation of that story with your name on it someday.

Speaking of LGBT themes in folktales, have you heard of “Lamia or Sybaris" (ATU 300, The Dragon-Slayer)? It's a Greek myth about a guy who saves another guy from an ogress because he's attracted to the would-be victim.

In case you or anyone else is interested, an English-language translation is available here:

https://books.google.com.pr/books?id=9_Eolzuv0eQC&lpg=PA58&vq=eurybarus&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=false

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to folklore

Only the footnotes to arrange, now.

And I have to get my introductions finished and edited, I suppose.

Very nearly ready, relatively speaking.

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to folklore

Here's a bibliographical juxtaposition you don't see every day.

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to folklore

Some illustrations are just too pretty to let the text wrap around them.

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to random

Is there a reason @firefish won't load in Safari on an iPad? #FireFish

Perhaps not Firefish per se, but at least hell.social, which is where I have an account. What say you, @satan?

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to random

When will Americans acknowledge that theirs is but one of 195 countries in the world?*

• Not all Americans, I know.

juergen_hubert, 6 months ago to random

I was just robbed for the first time in my life.

Next to a grocery store, two young men asked me if I could change €20 for them. I rummaged in my wallet, and one of the guys distracted me by rummaging in his wallet and discussing what kind of change he needed.

Then the other guy ripped all my banknotes out of my pocket, and they ran away. Since it was dark, I didn't notice any useful details. I reported this to the police, but don't expect to see those €300 again.

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to Typography

Ðð: Eth. Faroese, Icelandic, Old Norse, Old English.

Đđ: D with stroke. Croatian, Serbian, Vietnamese, Sámi.

Some of us care. Please use the correct letter.

#Othography #Typography #Unicode

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to random

One of Asbjørnsen & Moe’s folktales = 7 lines.

One of Asbjørnsen’s hulder tales and folk legends = 69 pages.

mrundkvist, 6 months ago to random Swedish

You don't see a lot of movies these days where the hero's adversaries stumble into a gay bar and have to dance the tango with guys wearing BDSM leather gear.

juergen_hubert, 6 months ago to random

Happy Anglo-American Cultural Imperialism Day!

If you want to read some ghost tales from the Old Country, check out my latest book!

https://www.amazon.com//dp/3982217148/

SimonRoyHughes, 6 months ago to random

The amusement in watching an animated gif on a colour e-ink screen and witnessing the accumulated degradation of the image while the screen doesn't refresh.