Team Nordic [study and support group]

[Soffía]

Another Icelandic media product which may interest people is the film "Rams" (Hrútar).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3296658/

It's playing at various indie cinemas in the UK at the moment. I'm going to see it in a couple weeks. I even saw a poster on the Tube!

[Elenia]

Hi, friends! I posted quietly in my log yesterday about maybe organising a multilingual read-along of Odinsbarn. It's originally a Norwegian book, but it is available in Swedish and Finish translation. Sadly, I haven't seen evidence of Danish or Icelandic translations, although it is apparently also available in Czech, so maybe I just missed them. Would any of you be interested? I'll post the Norwegian and Finnish blurbs for all to check out:

Tenk deg å mangle noe alle andre har. Noe som beviser at du hører til i denne verden. Noe så viktig at uten det, er du ingenting. En pest. En myte. Et menneske.

Femten vintre gammel får Hirka vite at hun er et odinsbarn - en halelaus råttenskap fra en annen verden. Foraktet. Fryktet. Og jaget. Hun aner ikke lenger hvem hun er, og noen vil drepe henne for at det skal forbli en hemmelighet. Men det finnes verre ting enn odinsbarn, og Hirka er ikke den eneste skapningen som har brutt gjennom portene. Odinsbarn er original fantasy på norrøn grunn. Et oppgjør med fremmedfrykt, blind tro og retten eller viljen til å lede. Det er den første av tre bøker om Hirka, i serien Ravneringene

Hirkalta puuttuu jotain, mikä kaikilla muilla on. Jotain, mikä todistaisi, että hän kuuluu tähän maailmaan. Jotain niin tärkeää, että ilman sitä hän on tauti. Myytti. Ihminen.

Kun Hirka on viidentoista, hän kuulee olevansa ihminen, odininlapsi – hännätön olento toisesta maailmasta. Mädän kantaja. Halveksittu. Pelätty. Ja nyt myös saalistettu: joku tahtoo tappaa hänet, jotta hänen salaisuutensa säilyisi ikuisesti. Mutta porteista on päässyt sisään myös vaarallisempia olentoja kuin hän…

Odininlapsi on jäiseen, karuun pohjoiseen sijoittuva tarina täynnä seikkailua, tunnetta ja syvyyttä. Sen ainutlaatuisessa maailmassa murtuvat fantasian klassiset elementit: ennustuksia ei ole, sota ei ole vain taisteluita eivätkä naiset ole avuttomia sivustakatsojia.

Kirja on kertomus kansojen kohtaamisesta sekä kamppailusta järjestyksen ja kaaoksen, uusien ja vanhojen jumalten välillä. Se on kertomus sokeasta uskosta, vallanhimosta ja ulkopuolisuudesta. Mustavalkoista ei ole, vaan sävyt sekoittuvat todentuntuisesti.

Any takers?

EDIT: This is definitely a future proposal! I at least want to give myself and everyone here time to track down the book!

[Iversen]

Actually there is a Danish translation - if you have 200 DKK for the purpose:

http://bog.nu/titler/odinsbarn-siri-pettersen

[Elenia]

Actually there is a Danish translation - if you have 200 DKK for the purpose:

http://bog.nu/titler/odinsbarn-siri-pettersen

Thank you! I wasn't sure how to go about tracking it down and making sure I got the right language.

[Brun Ugle]

Jeg er med! Jeg trenger å lese mer på norsk uansett. Hvis det er ingen hast, så kunne vi vente til den Super Challenge begynner. Det er ikke så lenge til. Men jeg har heller ikke noe imot å starte før den tid.

I'll join you. I need to read more Norwegian anyway. If you're not in a hurry, we could wait until the Super Challenge starts. That's not much longer now. But I have nothing against starting earlier.

[Elenia]

Jeg er med! Jeg trenger å lese mer på norsk uansett. Hvis det er ingen hast, så kunne vi vente til den Super Challenge begynner. Det er ikke så lenge til. Men jeg har heller ikke noe imot å starte før den tid.

I'll join you. I need to read more Norwegian anyway. If you're not in a hurry, we could wait until the Super Challenge starts. That's not much longer now. But I have nothing against starting earlier.

Maj låter bra! Då skulle jag ha förhoppningsvis hittat boken i antingen svensk eller norsk.

May sounds good! By then I will hopefully have found the book in either Swedish or Norwegian.

För ni som vill läsa på svenska, e-boken finns på storytel.se men man måste ha ett abonnemang.

To those who want to read in Swedish, the e-book is available on storytel.se but you have to have an account.

(Typing those two short lines was more stressful than it should have been
... and of course, as soon as I hit enter I see mistakes. Please tell me if I've managed to miss something, I am sure I have but I'm not sure what.)

[Expugnator]

Hi, friends! I posted quietly in my log yesterday about maybe organising a multilingual read-along of Odinsbarn. It's originally a Norwegian book, but it is available in Swedish and Finish translation. Sadly, I haven't seen evidence of Danish or Icelandic translations, although it is apparently also available in Czech, so maybe I just missed them. Would any of you be interested? [...]

Jeg er helt enig! Jeg gleder meg til å delta i en boksirkel på Skandinavisk! Det høres fantastisk ut.
Denne boken her er bare bok én av tre bøker, kommer vi til å lese alle eller er det for tidlig for å tenke om det?

Jeg har skjekket og fante ikke noe lydbok, men ingen årsak, jeg er med selv om det bare handler om å lese teksten. Boken finnes som ebok på tanum.no (129kr) og ark.no (91kr nå, men de godtar ikke kredittkort mitt der). Hvis denne boken er bare 30% like bra som Tintenherz, blir jeg alltid takknemlig for alle de flotte anbefalinger om fiksjon du har gitt oss, Elenia!

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I fully agree! I'm looking forwards to taking part in a book club in Scandinavian! Sounds fantastic.
This book is just book 1 of 3, are we going to read all of them or is it too early to think about it?

I have checked and found no audiobooks, but no big deal, I'm in even if it's just about reading the text. The book can be found as an ebook at tanum.no (129kr) and ark.no (91kr now, but they don't accept my credit card). If this book is at least 30% as good as Tintenherz, I will be always thankful to all the goof recommendations on fiction you've brought us, Elenia!

[Elenia]

Hi, friends! I posted quietly in my log yesterday about maybe organising a multilingual read-along of Odinsbarn. It's originally a Norwegian book, but it is available in Swedish and Finish translation. Sadly, I haven't seen evidence of Danish or Icelandic translations, although it is apparently also available in Czech, so maybe I just missed them. Would any of you be interested? [...]

Jeg er helt enig! Jeg gleder meg til å delta i en boksirkel på Skandinavisk! Det høres fantastisk ut.
Denne boken her er bare bok én av tre bøker, kommer vi til å lese alle eller er det for tidlig for å tenke om det?

Jeg har skjekket og fante ikke noe lydbok, men ingen årsak, jeg er med selv om det bare handler om å lese teksten. Boken finnes som ebok på tanum.no (129kr) og ark.no (91kr nå, men de godtar ikke kredittkort mitt der). Hvis denne boken er bare 30% like bra som Tintenherz, blir jeg alltid takknemlig for alle de flotte anbefalinger om fiksjon du har gitt oss, Elenia!

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I fully agree! I'm looking forwards to taking part in a book club in Scandinavian! Sounds fantastic.
This book is just book 1 of 3, are we going to read all of them or is it too early to think about it?

I have checked and found no audiobooks, but no big deal, I'm in even if it's just about reading the text. The book can be found as an ebook at tanum.no (129kr) and ark.no (91kr now, but they don't accept my credit card). If this book is at least 30% as good as Tintenherz, I will be always thankful to all the goof recommendations on fiction you've brought us, Elenia!

Vad bra! Hoppas att boken är minst lika bra som Tintenherz

Det är kanske för tidligt att tänka på de andra böcker. Men om vi tycker om den första boken ska jag gärna läsa de andra med er Jag har hittat ljudboken för dig, men det är dyrare än boken själv. Men den finns!

Sidan: https://www.lydbokforlaget.no/node/25815. Jag ska kolla efter en billigare sida

EDIT to add translation:

Great! I hope the book is at least as good as Inkheart.

It is perhaps too early to think about the other books. But if we like the first book I'd happily read the others with you all I have found the audiobook for you, but it is more expensive than the book itself. But it exists! I'll look for a cheaper version.

[Montmorency]

The only other Icelandic thing I've seen on BBC was the hilarious (once you get into it) "The Night Shift":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0116qjx

"Night Shift" (AKA "Næturvaktin") was IIRC the first Icelandic series to be shown on the BBC, period. It's great! If you enjoyed it, there are two subsequent series, "Day Shift/Dagvaktin" and "Prison Shift/Fangavaktin", plus a film, "Bjarnfreðarson", which was a huge hit in Iceland. And then there's "Gnarr" which is a comedy/documentary about the actor who plays Georg, and his joke candidacy for mayor of Reykjavik. The joke was on him at the end, because he ended up as mayor...

!!! Thanks for that. For some reason, I am not surprised he ended up as Mayor....

But back to "Trapped": didn't you find it interesting that the Norwegians and Danes spoke to each other in English? (except when they lost it and started swearing at each other ...).

Icelanders and Danes, you mean? Or maybe I just haven't got to the bit that you're mentioning yet. It actually surprised me more when the investigator did speak a bit of Danish to the ferry captain, because despite the fact that Icelanders are required to study Danish in high school, they're notoriously unable to speak it. Even the Icelanders and the Faroese seem to often end up speaking English to one another.

Yes, sorry, I have just spotted my bloomer and added an edit: yes, Icelanders and Danes, I meant.

Here's Jón Gnarr on Danish. Hilarious and (after the first 30 seconds) all about linguistic barriers...
https://youtu.be/FEzIu6Cv_Ek
(For some reason I can't work out how to embed.)

Thanks again! ...I think I'm even more glad now that I've just changed my plan of trying to revive my Danish to one of trying to revive my Norwegian (which never really got off the ground in the first place...). More on that later...

[tiia]

And one more person learning Finnish. My language log can be found here.

The read along of Odininlapsi sounds really interesting, but right now I have more than 10 unread books in Finnish. (I just travelled to Finland and bought more.) I should definitely read some of those first. You don't have to wait for me, when you want to start more or less soon. I still would have to think about that anyway. (Also the cheapest version I could find was ~23€ incl. shipping for a used copy.)