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Oct. 24th, 2020 09:16 pmCountry Life in Scotland: Our Rural Past, by Alexander Fenton (1987)
More fic research. This is exactly what I needed for info about 18th century agriculture in the Highlands, and will be most useful to me! Also, bless archive.org. I didn't actually know until recently that you could borrow ebooks there (thanks,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
regshoe!). It's not very convenient to read them on the screen as you have to do, but a lot more convenient than not having access to the books at all.
Alfabet by Inger Christensen (1981, read in the original Danish)
I can't remember who in my DW circle recced this? Anyway, I saw it standing in my Danish brother-in-law's bookcase and borrowed it. It is a book of poetry, mostly concerned with nature and humanity's relationship to nature (and destruction of it). I like the structure of it a lot--it begins with an alphabetical assertion of things that exist, beginning with "abrikostræerna findes, abrikostræerna findes" (apricot trees exist). I've never read a book in Danish before, but it was quite possible, allowing for a little Google translate of difficult words. The degree of difference between Swedish and Danish is about like that between English and Scots, I would guess (er, I'm sorry that everything needs to be related to my current fandom. *facepalm*)
Speaking of fandom, my poly Flight of the Heron fic is now at 27K! \o/
More fic research. This is exactly what I needed for info about 18th century agriculture in the Highlands, and will be most useful to me! Also, bless archive.org. I didn't actually know until recently that you could borrow ebooks there (thanks,
regshoe!). It's not very convenient to read them on the screen as you have to do, but a lot more convenient than not having access to the books at all. Alfabet by Inger Christensen (1981, read in the original Danish)
I can't remember who in my DW circle recced this? Anyway, I saw it standing in my Danish brother-in-law's bookcase and borrowed it. It is a book of poetry, mostly concerned with nature and humanity's relationship to nature (and destruction of it). I like the structure of it a lot--it begins with an alphabetical assertion of things that exist, beginning with "abrikostræerna findes, abrikostræerna findes" (apricot trees exist). I've never read a book in Danish before, but it was quite possible, allowing for a little Google translate of difficult words. The degree of difference between Swedish and Danish is about like that between English and Scots, I would guess (er, I'm sorry that everything needs to be related to my current fandom. *facepalm*)
Speaking of fandom, my poly Flight of the Heron fic is now at 27K! \o/
