Witch-hunt

The Legend of the Ice People 2, Margit Sandemo

Tagman, 2008
ISBN: 978-1-903571-77-4
246 sider

Summer 1586: Silje, the courageous sixteen-year-old peasant girl rphaned by the Trondheim plague in the opening Ice People novel Spellbound, has just come of age in this sequel Witch-hunt. Having fled for her life with her adored "wolf-man" Tengel and two children she rescued from the plague, she is struggeling at 21 to come to terms with the harshness of life among witches and warlocks in the high mountain valley of the mysterious Ice People.

Silje has bravely born Tengel their first child, a daughter Liv. But their life of austere poverty is shattered when savage, witch-hunting troops invade their remote valley to slaughter all its feared inhabitants. Warned in time Silje, Tengel and the three children flee from the carnage to the lowlands ... But are they unknowingly carrying with them to the rest of Europe the accursed heritage of the Ice People?

For anmeldelse av selve boka, se den norske utgaven - Heksejakten.

En ting jeg funderte litt over i denne engelske oversettelsen var at det flere ganger skrives "Herr Tengel" i teksten, slik som ha benevnes i den norske utgaven. Likevel så er "Herr Johan" oversatt til "Master Johan". Hvorfor er det gjort forskjell på disse to? Jeg trodde ikke de hadde "herr" som et engelsk ord engang...?

Utenom det har jeg ingen ting å kommentere, jeg synes bøkene gjør seg godt på engelsk også selv om det forsåvidt er ganske rart å lese dem i en helt annen språkdrakt.

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