#farlig midsommar

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

It is 21:00, my throat is hoarse and I’m laughing about the original midsummer madness illustrations

[stoertebeker]

”Solen hade gått ner, men nu i juni fanns det inget mörker att tala om. Natten var blek och drömmande och full av trolldom.“

Farlig Midsommar av Tove Jansson

[thespidersfrommarz]

'Snufkin continued to scull in silence for a long time. Moomintroll sat looking at the well known and comforting outline of his old hat against the night sky and the puffs of pipe-smoke rising in the quiet air. "Everything'll be all right now," he thought.'

- Moominsummer Madness; Ch13, Pg161

[marsmombestmom]

1953-11-28 DN This is it, this is the most surprising thing I found while digging through the newspapers. A Moomin short story from 1953 named När parkvakten blev självlysande (When the Park Keeper Became Luminescent), as you might recognize, this became a chapter in Moominsummer Madness the following year, so it’s not a completely new story. Large portions are identical to the final print, others are basically just rephrasing the same things. Some parts are shorter, it’s overall structurally a bit briefer and Little My doesn’t sing her song. Little My is also the one spreading the Hattifattener seeds as she is small enough to pass through the fencing. However, the beginning and end differentiate more. In this short story, Snufkin simply finds Little My by chance while fishing. There’s no flood and My hasn’t capsized from the floating theater. She simply claims to have run from home. Snufkin himself has the same motivation for committing acts of terrorism playing tricks on the Park Keeper, there is however no significance on it having to be on midsummer eve. In the end, instead of reluctantly becoming a caretaker, Snufkin gladly brings the kids to his cabin (?!) and lets them stay for awhile. Although he does state that he never stays in the same place for long and that he’ll try to return the children to their parents further on. Meanwhile, the Park Keeper found it delightful to suddenly glow in the dark and amuses himself by surprising friend and acquaintances that way. Very notable are the unique artwork, the first being a front page information on the short story that was later completely redrawn for the finished book. Then there’s the large color illustration unique for this print. Notably, the Park Keeper is portrayed as a human. (The bag says “Hattifattener seeds” and the upside-down sign says “Forbidden to read funny books”.) The third illustration is an early version of a picture later used in the finished book, it is slightly different, notably clothing and the bowl Snufkin carries. The final illustration is just taken straight out of the Exploits of Moominpappa. This is a very fascinating piece of history that kind of acts as an earlier draft to what would become a classic story. By this point, Moominsummer Madness was still about a years off, according to my clippings it seems to have been released in Sweden by November 1954, though I suspect it was released in Finland a bit earlier. I would suppose that this sort off informed how the rest of the book would’ve been written, as to implement this story into the greater whole, Snufkin needed to be absent for everything prior. The final clipping is a radio schedule from Söderhamns tidning 1954-03-03, showing the story was read in Swedish radio by Greta Brotherus at 17:10 Friday March 5th 1954. If I am to be a complete asshole about this, I’d suggest that we revise the official chronology of Moomin books to include this, but I refrain.

[oswald-privileges]

snufkin, on acquiring 24 kids: I don't even know if I like children!

snufkin, literally two pages later: *breaks into someone's home, raids their pantry, and dumps a literal keg of beans onto the dining room table as to serve as dinner for 25* I'm A Dad Now

[pinkie-satan]

I was looking for something in my closest and I found the very same copy of Moominsummer Madness that my mum used to read me when I was a little kid. Even though it's in very poor condition now, it was such a nice thing to read it all again. It made me feel so old tbh ;) ahh such a nostalgic feeling

[amatesura]

Moominsummer Madness (1954)

written & illustrated by Tove Jansson

[laziestgirlintown]

It's canon

[elephantkingdom]

Between the journalist characters in the reverse trial,,

[vimbry]

thumbnails and their final illustrations by tove jansson for farlig midsommar/moominsummer madness (1954)

[finnishfun]

Moomin in Hungarian

@languagesandshootingstars suggested a Moomin vocab list (sorry it took so long!), I thought to include the Swedish and Finnish names as well. Maybe not really a vocab list, I just collected the character names and book titles. But I can include some random words too :D

The second book on the list (about the magic hat) also has an earlier translation, I included the alternative names from this one where I could find one. In this earlier version the name for the Moomins is múmin, while in the new books they are called mumin (with a short u).

Hungarian - English - Swedish - Finnish

Characters:

Muminpapa - Moominpappa - Muminpappan - Muumipappa Muminmama - Moominmamma - Muminmamman - Muumimamma Muminbocs - Moomintroll - Mumintrollet - Muumipeikko Vándor (Kószlászbóklász) - Snufkin - Snusmumriken - Nuuskamuikkunen  Motyó (Mafli) - Sniff - Sniff -  Nipsu Cókmók (Bájocska) - Snorkmaiden - Snorkfröken - Niiskuneiti Mók (Fürkész) - Snork - Snorken - Niisku Varkocs (Pöttöm) - Little My - Lilla My - Pikku Myy Lencsilány - Mymble - Mymlan - Mymmeli Jégrém (Hork) - The Groke - Mårran - Mörkö Hattivattik - The Hattifatteners -  Hattifnattar - Hattivatit  Cukota -  Mrs Fillyjonk - Filifjonkan  - Vilijaana, Vilijonkka  Böngész - Hemulen - Hemulen - Hemuli Antan-Ténusz - Too-ticky - Too-ticki - Tuu-tikki

Books:

Muminbocs és az üstökös - Comet in Moominland - Kometjakten/Kometen kommer -  Muumipeikko ja pyrstötähti A bűvös cilinder (Varázskalap a Múminvölgyben) - Finn Family Moomintroll  - Trollkarlens hatt -  Taikurin hattu Muminpapa hőstettei -  The Exploits of Moominpappa/Moominpappa's Memoirs -  Muminpappans bravader/Muminpappans memoarer -  Muumipapan urotyöt Szentivánéji rémálom - Moominsummer madness -  Farlig midsommar -  Vaarallinen juhannus Titokzatos tél a Mumin-völgyben - Moominland Midwinter -  Trollvinter -  Taikatalvi A láthatatlan lurkó - Tales from Moominvalley -  Det osynliga barnet -  Näkymätön lapsi ja muita kertomuksia Muminpapa és a tenger - Moominpappa at sea -  Pappan och havet -  Muumipappa ja meri A Mumin-völgy novemberben - Moominvalley in November -  Sent i november -  Muumilaakson marraskuu

Some further links:

Moomin characters in Finnish (Wikipedia) Moomin characters in Swedish and Finnish Moomin characters in Swedish (Wikipedia) Moomin characters in English (Wikipedia) Some episodes in Hungarian (Youtube)

Feel free to suggest any additions! :)

[thespidersfrommarz]

'And as always when there was a change in the weather, dusk, or a strange light in the sky, he [Moomintroll] noticed that he was longing for Snufkin.'

- Moominsummer Madness; Ch1, Pg10

[marsmombestmom]

Tove Jansson’s sketches for the illustrations in Moominsummer Madness, complete with coffee stains. Of note: - Early map layout for Spruce Creek - Cooking Snufkin - Misabel deserved no grace in her sorrow, but was instead only perfected when she got the ugly cry

[svensklangblr]

Hi Dear ... Do you recommend any swedish children book to read 👶👶👶

hello! first of all i recommend Astrid Lindgren, she’s the epitome of children’s literature! and if you want to understand swedish culture (which i guess is part of the point in learning a language?) i think reading her works would be a major key.here are some classics:

Astrid Lindgren:

Bullerbybarnen

Pippi Långstrump

Bröderna Lejonhjärta

Madicken

Mio, min Mio

Lotta på Bråkmakargatan

Rasmus på Luffen

Vi på Saltkråkan

Emil i Lönneberga

Ronja Rövardotter

Karlsson på taket

Elsa Beskow (her illustrations are also iconic for the swedish national romanticism and the jugend era, so if you’re interested in swedish art, Elsa Beskow is a good place to start):

Sagan om den lilla, lilla gumman

Solägget

Tant Brun, tant Grön och tant Gredelin

Tomtebobarnen

Olles skidfärd

Peter Cohen:

Olssons pastejer

Herr Bohm och sillen

Gunilla Bergström:

Alfons Åberg

Barbro Lindgren:

Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang

Sunkan flyger

Ulf Nilsson:

Adjö, Herr Muffins

Selma Lagerlöf:

Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige

Gösta Berlings saga

Erik Åkerlund:

Bland tomtar och troll (old norse / swedish mythology, made famous by the John Bauer illustrations (and for being an amazing piece of literature))

Tove Jansson (she was a finnish author but she was a finn-swede and alors, she wrote in swedish):

Pappan och havet

Vem ska trösta knyttet?

Muminpappans memoarer

Det osynliga barnet

Trollvinter

Farlig midsommar

Thomas Funck:

Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll

Gösta Knutsson:

Pelle Svanslös

Sven Nordqvist:

Pettson och Findus

Mamma Mu

[laziestgirlintown]

So ... my lockscreen is Captain Blood and odds are always good my last photo will be Sir Cat (here melted). But last listened to was the audio book of Farlig Midsommar (Moominsummer Madness) so I randomed a song from my most common playlist, and it's valid. It's even Saturday night.

Mutuals feel free, I'm curious if you want to share ❤

Rules: Show your lockscreen, last song listened to, last photo in your camera roll. 

I can’t remember who made this art, but I had this as my lockscreen for about 6+ years now for sure, through different devices

look…. the red army choir slaps

on my walk to lunch I saw this tree that fell and obvi had to take a photo for the groupchat

tagged by @autodiscothings​ and tagging @hungry-hobbits​ @absolutelyfibulas​ @hoiist​ @mrs-chief​ @nathleeng​

[mylittleliterarian]

Finlandssvenska Förlaget tar nu över all utgivning av Tove Janssons originalböcker om Mumin i Sverige. Förlaget grundades 2015 på initiativ av Tove Janssons brorsdotter Sophia Jansson och hennes man, Roleff Kråkström, med ambitionen att föra arvet efter Tove Jansson vidare och skapa möjligheter för nya författarskap och illustratörer att växa fram. Kapitelböckerna har fått nya omslag, som ligger nära originalutgåvorna och bilderböckerna har återfått de originalfärger som Tove Jansson ursprungligen tog fram. Tove Jansson gav ut den första berättelsen om mumintrollen 1945. Totalt blev det elva böcker. Muminböckerna finns översatta till 55 språk och har sålt i över 15 miljoner exemplar. Dessutom säljs Muminprodukter globalt för omkring 7 miljarder kronor per år. Japan står för 40% av marknaden, och i mars öppnade temaparken Moominvalley Park i Hanno utanför Tokyo, som förväntas locka en miljon besökare årligen. Denna vecka tipsar vi om några av våra favoriter från Förlagets utgivning. Vi börjar med underbara ”Farlig midsommar”, berättelsen om vad som hände i den magiska månaden juni samma år som det eldsprutande berget rörde på sig och Mumintrollets mamma gjorde sin vackraste barkbåt.

https://www.bokus.com/bok/9789523330610/farlig-midsommar/

https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/farlig-midsommar-9789523330610