Jul 17
"It should come as no surprise to anyone that he should have sold himself out to the Iceland merchants to bring am unjust case against his manifold patron and favourite son of our fatherland, since he was capable of travelling to Iceland to buy books and copies of books for the Swedes--of all the evils that could befall an Icelander the worst would be to serve the Swedes, who deny that we are men and claim that Icelandic books appertain go the Gotlanders and West Gotlanders. Is the Skálda going to belong to them now too, and be called a West Gotlandic poem?"
- Iceland's Bell, Halldór Laxness, trans. by Phillip Roughton
#halldór laxness#iceland's bell#íslandsklukkan#phillip roughton#that's my amanuensis blorbo!!!! after a fashion :')#at every moment i am contemplating the location of my beloved Hvs. half of it is in sweden at the moment this speech is given!#obscure saga like a character actor. idc about the edda where's my ratty tatty feud story :))))