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Midamble – midway on our life’s journey September 13, 2019
Sound Walk Sunday 2019 – Who are the producers – Babak Fakhamzadeh August 21, 2019
Marooned on a desert island August 16, 2019
Sound Walk Sunday 2019 – Who are the producers – Geert Vermeire August 15, 2019
Sauntering with the Museum in September August 8, 2019

flakkari

“Icelandic culture is infused with stories of travel. When names were needed for modern machines, the technology that enables our imaginations to travel, words were chosen that centred on the quality of roaming. Thus the neologism for laptop is fartölva, formed from the verb far, meaning to migrate, and tölva – migrating computer’; its companion, the external hard drive, is a flakkari. The latter word can also mean ‘wanderer’ or ‘vagrant’. In the end it’s the wanderers we rely on.” Nancy Campbell ‘The Library of Ice’ (Scribner UK, 2018: page 232)

Submitted by: Ruth Broadbent

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