Notices by SimonRoyHughes 🌹 (simonroyhughes@thefolklore.cafe)

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“The Curious Incident of the Dog and the Sailor”

Is the gay fairy tale really based on suppressed gay Danish folklore? I looked at the sources.

https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-and-the-sailor

#DanishFolktales #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday #bookstodon

Welcome to Europe. Here is our calendar:

6. June: honour those who fought against the Nazis.

9. June: vote for those whose policies best align with Nazis.

#EU #EUParliament #Elections

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

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

Erotic Folktales from Norway, now as an .epub available through Ko-fi.

€2.00

https://ko-fi.com/s/33ae0866ff

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

The first addition to my Ko-fi shop for a while.

Five Norwegian White Bear Tales is an anthology of five Norwegian folktales that follow the story of Cupid and Psyche, but instead of the god of love, in all of these we meet an enchanted white bear.

A brief introduction puts the tales into a more international context.

And the illustrations are gorgeous.

.epub format that may be read on nearly any digital device.

Minimum price: €2.50.

https://ko-fi.com/s/a2dedb9f85

#NorwegianFolktales #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday #Folktale #publishing @bookstodon

#UnpopularOpinion: The badger animation was stupid and annoying, even 20 years ago.

Three billion people on the march cannot be stopped by anything.

We either begin to work to slow and eventually reverse climate breakdown, opening our hearts to the displaced in the meantime, or we're headed for the worst period of conflict in the history of mankind.

https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-crisis-niche-migration-environment-population

The folktale you know as “The Three Billy-goats Gruff” (but which I in my translation have called “The Three Billy-Goats Bruse,” restoring the original name) was collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen in the early summer of 1842, from parliamentary representative Anders Lysgaard, who lived on the farm at Svennes in Biri, Oppland. The farm still stands. Here it is on Google Maps.

Asbjørnsen was on his way to Gudbrandsdalen, where a month or so later, he would record the legends Ibsen used to write his masterpiece, Peer Gynt (1867).

A productive holiday, then.

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

Reasonably often in Norwegian folktales, a great distance is described in terms of "bluings" (my coin; Norwegian: blåner). To a novice, this term may be confusing. But once in a while, the explanation is presented in nature.

I took this picture as we were flying into Oslo last night. I count up to nine bluings, which is even farther than the seven spoken of in the folktales.

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday

I'm not linking to the fake news article about kids identifying as cats, but I will say this: plenty of us have to navigate the minefield of credulous idiots self-identifying as intelligent, responsible members of society.

#SelfID

@forteller @thomasrost Der er en vanlig forestilling om at det enten var Sokrates eller Aristoteles som skrev det, men sitatet kommer fra en avhandling av Kenneth J. Freeman fra 1907.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/63644/pg63644-images.html#fnanchor_199

Sitatet fra Platons Republikk i det foregående avsnittet er da interessant: lærerne er redde sine elever – men her er det en kritikk av en demokratisk stat, der slikt forekommer av nødvendighet.

@Piraya @forteller @thomasrost Det ser ut til å summere opphavet til det sitatet, ja. Men det må tas med at Freeman parafraser Xenofon, som la skylda på ettergivende foreldre. Og det undergraver jo Tore Renbergs poeng.

@forteller @thomasrost Ikke Sokrates, heller.

@thomasrost Hadde vært bedre om han siterte riktig. (Aristoteles skrev aldri det han begynner med.)

There was once upon a time a girl who was called Maiden Sunrise, and she had been carried away by a troll. Of course, there was a boy who wanted her, but he didn’t know what to do or where to go to save her. Now, someone he spoke to told him that he should go to church for three Thursday evenings in a row; then he might hear some news, they said.

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends @folklore @folklorethursday

So he went to church one Thursday evening, and as he waited there, a little grey fellow came along and stood close to him. The boy thought him fun, but then the grey fellow stuck a needle into the boy’s shirt, and he fell asleep.

#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends @folklore @folklorethursday

@forteller Psykisk svekket = ber om å få lov til å sterilisere seg. Det gir staten enhver anledning til å gripe inn i den enkeltes liv.

I have changed my settings to auto-delete toots that are older than 2 months, except for those toots with more than 10 likes or 10 boosts.

In this way, I save server space (making running costs cheaper for mine host); I don't have to worry about losing a ton of material, should the server fail; and most importantly of all, my timeline will look as if I am a super-popular tooter.

Forthcoming from The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe.

https://www.patreon.com/NorwegianFolktales