LOS USURPADORES
This is a rather eccentric, tongue-in-cheek take on the Scottish play I had to do at University this springtime for the fourth centennial of the Bard of Avon. Sit back and enjoy!LOS USURPADORESSandra...
View ArticleLÖJTNANT WILHELM ANKARSTJERNA
A little catnip from Sweden, by author Annika Thor.The life story of a Swedish young noble who could be any young noble in Sweden... Baron Fredrik Ankarstjerna ansträngde sig att ta hand om sin brorson...
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This week I will be spending in Gothenburg, so I will surely get my hands on Nicky Raven's Snow Queen even if it, like Osada-sensei's Othello last month, will be a temporary one-week loan. Mmmm....
View ArticleFRESHLY-BAKED SUMMER FEUILLETON!!!
The Snow Queen Week begins now!!!Up to Friday, you will enjoy the classic Andersen tale chapter-by-chapter in this blog!!!<3 <3 <3 <3Hope you enjoy the story!
View ArticleTHE SNOW QUEEN: STORY I
THE SNOW QUEENA FAIRYTALE IN SE7EN STORIESF1RST STORY:A SORCERERAND HIS MIRRORThere once was a sorcerer and he had a mirror. This was no ordinary mirror, and the sorcerer was not the kindly sort, with...
View ArticleTHE SNOW QUEEN - STORY II
THE SNOW QUEENA FAIRYTALE IN SE7EN STORIESTHE SECON2 STORYKAIAND GERDATwo children, Kai and Gerda, lived opposite each other in a provincial town. They were such good friends that many people thought...
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THE SNOW QUEENA FAIRYTALE IN SE7EN STORIESTHE THI3D STORYTHE FLOWERGARDENAfter Kai had been missing for a few days, Gerda began to fear the worst. But the sun was shining, and its bright rays seemed to...
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THE SNOW QUEENA FAIRYTALE IN SE7EN STORIESTHE FOU4TH STORYTHE PRINCEAND THE PRINCESSGerda trudged along the bleak autumn landscape, becoming more wet and miserable with each passing mile. She needed to...
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KOMPOSITÖREN - MARTIN WIDMARK
And now for something completely different: to celebrate that The Snow Queen Feuilleton is now half-way across this blog, another snippet from Swedish fiction. An isolated castle, eighteenth-century...
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THE SNOW QUEENA FAIRYTALE IN SE7EN STORIESTHE F5FTH STORYTHE LITTLEROBBER GIRLThe coach surged through the twilit forest, the coachman having already lit its golden lamps, which cast an eerie glow on...
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THE SNOW QUEENA FAIRYTALE IN SE7EN STORIESTHE S6XTH STORYTHE LAPP LADYAND THE FINN WOMANAll Gerda remembered of the rest of her ride into Lapland was the cold. The biting wind wrung tears from her...
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THE SNOW QUEENA FAIRYTALE IN SE7EN STORIESTHE SE7ENTH STORYTHE SNOWQUEEN'S PALACEAnd what of Kai?Was he imprisoned in the Snow Queen's palace, dreaming of the moment when Gerda would come and release...
View ArticleLE FOOT ET LE GOWN
This is part of my Shakespeare Fourth Centennial post cycle.In Henry V, Princess Catherine of France, about to be married to the titular character, gets lessons in her future home country's language...
View ArticleLÖJTNANT MALMBERG PÅ SJÖBODA
This is, just like the original Travesty of Othello, a manuscript of mine passed to the screen. I wrote it by hand a year ago in Gothenburg, and it concerns the love interest/husband character in a YA...
View ArticleNEWSFLASH ON DRUGLORE!!!
Swedish folklorists claim that the three nights tale (bridegroom drugged for three nights) has its roots in medieval France, then spread to the British Isles and Central and Southern Europe, and it...
View ArticleTHE GUARDS DRESSED AS PRIESTS
Here is an episode from a Swedish Rhampsinitus/type 950 tale I ad <3 re (hashtag #Catnip). A detachment of soldiers and their commanding officer are plied with wine, then dressed as priests (vicars)...
View ArticleQUIRKY SWEDISH EXPRESSIONS
Here are some of my favourite expressions in Swedish (I will do German idioms as well):Våffeldagen (Waffle Day, El día de los gofres)The 25th of March, a day to feast upon wafflesIn the Middle Ages, it...
View ArticleSWEDISH EXPRESSIONS WITH COGNATES ACROSS LANGUAGES
These are expressions that exist in other languages apart from Swedish with the same meaning literally and metaphorically; mostly they're taken from classical myths and Abrahamic sacred texts:att...
View ArticleMEINE DEUTSCHE LIEBLINGS-AUSDRÜCKE
Schwein: kann auch “Glück” bedeuten. Dusel: bedeutet auch “Glück”.Wie ein begossener Pudel dastehen: einer peinlicher Situation ausgesetzt seinDes Pudels Kern: der wahre Sachverhalt.Der Hase im...
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THE OLD BEAR AS QUINTUS ARRIUS
Upon learning that Ben-Hur 2016 will premiere tomorrow in Spain, I want to share some military history news of interest: my favourite character in this peplum, Tribunus Quintus Arrius, "the Good...
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