Author: Bragi Ólafsson

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• Liliya Boguinskaia (1)
  • IN: The Ambassador (2006) Fiction, Icelandic
    EPIGRAPH: ... ... ... ... og viõ leitum uppi tungu- mál hvort annars til aõ tÿnast í orõunum til aõ pÿõa hvort annaõ. ... ... ... ... Á leiõ snni af trjánum niõur á kalt yfirborõ haustsins eru laufin jafn lengi of paõ tekur okkur fólkiõ aõ taka hina stóru ákvörõun. Pegar viõ svo setjumst hvort viõ annars hliõ og speglumst ī djúpi dimmunnar á barnum munum viõ hvorugt hvaõa orõ viõ völdum --- hvaõ pau pÿddu á tungumáli hins. (and we search for the tongue of each other's people to get lost in the words to translate one another. On their way from the trees down to the cold autumn ground the leaves take as long as we people take to reach the big decision. When we sit down next to each other and reflect in the deep darkness at the bar neither remembers the words we chose --- what they meant in each other's tongues.
    FROM: "Pilies-stræti" (Pilies Gatvé), (None), NULL, NULL