Бажанов, А. Стихи и поэмы о саамском крае = Verses & poems on the Saami land / Аскольд Бажанов ; English translation by Naomi Caffee ; with an essay by Johanna Domokos. - Berlin : Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universitat, 2009. - 205 с. : ил., портр.

log I would have wished for two reindeer... I would have wished for two reindeer to depend on, without fail. And to shepherd at Notozero as I did in my youth, never shirking. There would be a new house to build windows facing the river, to gaze at a boat made of spruce planks. And we can go anywhere by boat, wherever our ancestors went, catching fish w ith the trawl, where your aim was true at the crack of dawn, as it took down geese on the wing. To get by on winter preserves: to cure pike, to pick mushrooms, and some blackberry jam, and the cloudberries, don’t forget, and the poisonous red lingonberry, to gather them by the barrel, to squeeze ju ice from the crowberry - and you can live unhurriedly!

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