{"id":18821,"date":"2023-10-17T20:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T00:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18821"},"modified":"2023-10-17T20:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T00:27:01","slug":"the-labors-of-lars-plus-a-personal-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18821","title":{"rendered":"The Labors of Lars (plus a personal appearance)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I look like this, according to legend, when I lecture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From time to time,<\/strong> events in what\u2019s laughingly known as my working life mean I have to alter my habits on this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, to put it less pompously, I\u2019ve got work (some of it even for money) that may \u2013 occasionally \u2013 keep me from posting here, without notice, for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Thursday, at 7:00 p.m., for instance, I\u2019ll be speaking on Viking Legacy<\/a><\/em> to Sagatun Lodge of the Sons of Norway, Brainerd, Minnesota. I think they meet at Trinity Lutheran Church, though such information is surprisingly difficult to learn from online sources. (The reason I don\u2019t have the address myself is because someone\u2019s generously taking me to dinner beforehand, and we\u2019ll drive from there. But I think it\u2019s Trinity Lutheran.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I expect that if you\u2019re in the area you\u2019ll be welcome, even if you\u2019re not a member of the lodge. Or Norwegian. Or all that good-looking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What else am I doing? Oh yes, I have an agreement to write an article on the new Norwegian Nobel Laureate for Literature, Jon Fosse. It\u2019s for a periodical which I will not name at this point, in case they don\u2019t want to be publicly associated with me. But I have to read Fosse\u2019s Septology<\/a><\/em>, which is a very long book. I have no idea what I\u2019ll blog about while I\u2019m working my way through that unusual (but fascinating) work. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, I have to learn how to use Adobe Live Desk so I can produce a newsletter for the Valdres Samband\u2019s (an organization of descendants of immigrants from the Norwegian region of Valdres) newsletter. Also a paying job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I have some translation to do for the Georg Sverdrup Society. They don\u2019t pay money, but I think I go to Hell if I don\u2019t deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been loafing all summer, trying to drum up work, and now the stuff is falling on my head in the manner of Burt Bacharach\u2019s raindrops. I just translated 11 pages of Norwegian for an author on a two-day deadline, and I got paid for that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And someday, like King Arthur, the script translation work may return from Avalon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From time to time, events in what\u2019s laughingly known as my working life mean I have to alter my habits on this blog. Or, to put it less pompously, I\u2019ve got work (some of it even for money) that may \u2013 occasionally \u2013 keep me from posting here, without notice, for a while. This Thursday, … Continue reading The Labors of Lars (plus a personal appearance)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,13,16],"tags":[4920,4915,1623,4919,3187,4826,3265],"class_list":["post-18821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-reading","category-the-press","tag-brainerd-mn","tag-jon-fosse","tag-lecturing","tag-sagatun-lodge","tag-translation","tag-valdres-samband","tag-viking-legacy"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18823,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18821\/revisions\/18823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}