Word: frisian
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...collections Harvard might contribute, Metcalf says, are these of the languages and literature of the Frisian Islands, and books of Icelandic origin. Two other universities have Icelandic collections, which could be grouped together as the greatest such collection in America...
...collections Harvard might contribute, Metcalf says, are these of the languages and literature of the Frisian Islands, and books of Icelandic origin. Two other universities have Icelandic collections, which could be grouped together as the greatest such collection in America...
Much of the book's flavor is due to the presence of the old people with their Frisian speech (which is close to the Anglo-Saxon), their memories and legends of old Friesland. The story is told almost season by season, chore by chore. Author Feikema excels in descriptions of plowing, cultivating, reaping, threshing. Sometimes sensitively, sometimes awkwardly, sometimes with embarrassing rhetoric he has written a unique regional novel...
...exhausted it is symbolized by the life of redheaded Pier Frixen and his wife, Nertha. Pier took over his father's farm in 1918. But he quarreled with the old man about marrying silver-blonde Nertha, who was half Norwegian. His father wanted Pier to marry a Frisian girl. "Soan, dy faem is net goed genoch [Son, that maiden is not good enough]," he said. Pier raged at the old man's nonsense about Ald Fryslan on the North Sea shore. So his father went out to brood, looking across the valley at the Hills of the Lord...
Across the room is a curious Frisian grandfather clock of the 17th century, and the Elizabethan mantlepiece next to it has not been dusted since 1583. The fireback is decorated with "Susannah and the Elders" in wrought iron, while tapestries and a Gothic cabinet effectively hide the crumbling north wall...