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Hey folks,
July has been a very busy month, sorry for not writing more... and I’m not sure August will be any better. Not only have I not finished writing the second chapter of Better Than Expected, I’ve actually barely started reading the Deathly Hallows yet.
I know, I’m a bad person.
Before leaving my homecountry again, this time for the States, I thought I would give you a small Icelandic present.
First of all I bought Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in Icelandic (Harry Potter og viskusteinninn) so I could try to practice a bit (given my command of Icelandic this is way too ambitious, but then again I know the book practically by heart in English so I can probably guess my way through the Icelandic version), so here is the very beginning :
« Dursleyhjónin á Runnaflöt númer fjögur hreyktu sér gjarnan af því að vera sérdeilis og algerlega eðlilegt fólk. Engan hefði grunað að þau væru flækt í eitthvað skrítið eða dularfullt, því svoleiðis vitleysu kærðu þau sig ekki um. »
« Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. »
I love it in English and I think it’s great in Icelandic too.
Also, and this is a special dedication for
r_fluffy, I was perusing old books in Kolaportið, Reykjavík’s flea market, and I saw Hroki og hleypidómar, aka Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen.
I know
r_fluffy loves the book and that she particularly loves the very first sentence :
« It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. »
So I just had to copy it down in Icelandic, here it is :
« Það er kunnara en frá þurfi að segja að piparsvein í góðum efnum hlýtur að vanta eiginkonu. »
And that’s all I have to say for now, really.
Cheers,
Elskuligr