Word: soane
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...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 which...
...river in the Siouxland he stood weeping. He was cast forth by his soan. He was but a dog in the eyes of his soan. Lonesome he was for old carnival times, for the merke [a fair], for wild music . . . and wild fammen [maidens]. Lonesome he was for It Aide Lan [the old country] where canals were sweet with water lilies, where storks built nests on high...
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