Scribbles and Bits

In searching for a definition of “särskrivning,” I came upon this anonymous post below which gave form to my observations that the Swedish language uses compound words quite freely and creatively. 
“The concept of what in Swedish is called “särskrivning” is becoming a very large problem in Sweden. Combined words are in general not written as separate […]

This poem, bogland, has been published elsewhere on the internet.  Seamus Heaney, the author, is another great Irish writer in a long tradition of Irish writers.  He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.  Here’s a link to his biography at the Nobel site.  Enjoy!

Bogland
 
 

 
for T. P. Flanagan   
We have no prairies
To slice a big […]