4 thoughts on “UP”

1. Love it, Damae. You've summed it up for me.

   Have you considered getting a copy of "Kristin Lavransdatter" by Sigrid Undset from the library or Amazon if you haven't already read it? I'd strongly recommend Tina Nunnally's English translation, published by Penguin, but then maybe you are already up to the Norwegian text though it's tough going. Undset won herself the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928 for her work – see the same landscape through the eyes of her rich cast of characters living in Norway in the 14th century. It's a great winter read too, one of those really profound books you only find once a decade, and good for dark nights by the fireside…

2. I had the same thought, although I read Damae's poem with pictures of the cycle ride that inspired it, floating through my head.

   Thanks for the book suggestion. I'll try finding Kristin Lavransdatter in Norwegian first, maybe the Sally Ally has a copy for sale. We can both cope with Wallender novels translated into Norwegian, although having said that, Mankell writes in a style that is easy to read.

3. Well as I suspected Sally Ally had a copy of Kristin Lavransdatter, and it is now sitting on our bookshelf in the hall – together with the other 12 books I ended up buying :)

4. That's great! Books get you through the hard times with no money better than money gets you through the hard times without books, as the saying goes. Undset is not that close in literary style to Mankell tho' :- )

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