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“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing; when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.”

— Tove Jansson, “Moominvalley in November”

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Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone's noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it's pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.

Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

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this is cute and all.. BUT IS THAT FUCKING MIKAEL FROM OPETH IN THE BACK?!!?!

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Mikael Åkerfeldt

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Bleu, blanc, rouge : dessins de Paul Iribe - 1932 - via Paris bibliotheques

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Good Morning by the Daily Mirror, England, June 12, 1943

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A Basic Guide for Pronouncing Icelandic.

This is a subject that I frequently post about, and yet its basics have yet to be properly discussed. This post will help you to achieve familiarity with the Icelandic language, both in terms of written characters and their respective sounds. This guide may also be used as a method for pronouncing Old Norse. It is a lengthy guide, but that is because Icelandic, in all its beauty, is a bit difficult for most people to pronounce. In the end, this quite is only “basic” because it does not delve deeply into the linguistics behind certain sounds involved. Nonetheless, this guide should provide to be very helpful!

When working through this guide, try to avoid becoming overwhelmed. I strongly recommend working through only one section at a time.

Keep reading

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Reason for the farewell

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The sea bream is not rot

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http://www.beams.co.jp/uniform_circus/

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Raincoat

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Buster Keaton in Seven Chances (1925)

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Tiina Törmänen

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by thomaskast1

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Rovaniemi, Finland 11/2022

Photo taken by: @lapinpitu

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I need everyone to know that in Hólmavík, Iceland there's an outdoor cat who ran up to me and my partner when we arrived, showed us her tummy, lead us around town a bit and later the same evening she appeared again, showed us where the museum of Icelandic sorcery and witchcraft is and accompanied us back to our apartment.

Needles to say, we took her recommendation to heart and when we were buying tickets I asked the lady who runs the museum about the cat and she was like "oh yeah, that's Mia"

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Muskogee Daily Phoenix, Oklahoma, January 12, 1936