User talk:Oddrun

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Cleared up a bit ;-)

help, please

Hi Oddrun,
you are probably closer to Swedish than I am ... ;-) Can you tell me, what the guy is saying about the shipsbell ... När ostindieseglare lämnade Göteborg för färden mot Kina rundade de först Shetland och fortsatte sedan till Cadiz i Spanien för bl. a. bunkring innan de gick vidare söderut. Under mina forskningar på Shetland i juni stötte jag på en detalj som har direkt anknytning till en av båtarna. Det berättas att Drottningen af Swerige i hårt väder strandade och blev vrak utanför Lerwick. Besättningen togs iland och kom så småningom tillbaka till hemlandet. Som tack för bärgningen skänkte de skeppsklockan till stadens församling som saknade en kyrkklocka. Så småningom skaffade sig församlingen en större kyrkklocka och den gamla fick sin plats i en tornhuv på taket till stadshuset som byggdes 1767. Tornhuven försågs dessutom med ett urverk. Stadshuset fungerade f.ö. också både som fängelse, postkontor och tullbod d.v.s. "tollbooth".
so that I get an idea where to look for further information???
There are "similar" (???) notes from Danish whalers that at least for some time the shipsbell of the Drottningen af Swerige was used as a bell in the spire of the Tollbooth before it became a kirkbell ... or the other way round ...
Have no Shetland references so far and therefore I am looking for more precise keywords for further search which might produce some results ... ;-) thx Islandhopper 17:00, 8 June 2007 (MDT)

Well, I've no problems reading Swedish , ;-}, but it's worse to translate it into readable English...I'll try : "When the Eastindiamen left Gothenburg (Göteborg) on their voyage to China, they first rounded Shetland, and then continued to Cadiz in Spain for supplies, before they went further south. During my research in Shetland in June, I found a detail witch has a direct connection to one of the ships. It is said that Drottningen af Swerige, in rough weather, grounded and was wrecked outside Lerwick. The crew was rescued and returned to the homecountry. As a gratitude for the rescue, they donated the ship bell to the town's congregation, who needed a church bell. After some time, the congregation got a larger church bell, and the old, (the ship bell),was placed in a tower on the roof of the Town Hall that was built in 1767. The tower was supplied with a clock mechanism too. The Town Hall was also used both as a jail, a post office and a custom - house.(tollbooth)."
That's the best translation I can come up with in the middle of the night...;-), Oddrun 20:14, 8 June 2007 (MDT)

Thanks a lot ... ;-) Islandhopper 04:48, 9 June 2007 (MDT)

Oddrun, please have a look at this pic and that. I'm searching the Norwegian word for the wooden riggs on which the split fishs do hang for drying ... and/or ... the fish on the riggs is labled klippfisk, too. Is there another Norwegian word refering to "dried fish" which is not dried on cliffs (=klippfisk) but dried on such wooden constructions (=???) similar to our German "Stockfisch" (dried on wooden sticks). The differenct use of our words "Klippfisch" and "Stockfisch" goes back to the hanseatic times and was invented by the merchant to allow different lables for the country of origin and different qualities to avoid trubble with the Bergen staple ... ;-)Islandhopper 08:37, 17 June 2007 (MDT)

I'l do my best, I don't like that kind of fish ;-) , But, 1 : the thing they are hanging the fish on is HJELL, don't ask what it means ;-)2 : There are two kind of dried fish, Klippfisk, - salted and dried, and Tørrfisk(Dry fish) - just dried like it is, with no salt. This is the one who is also called Stokkfisk,wind dried, hanging. In North Norway, they have always dried the fish on hjell, so I find the word klippfisk confusing,,,it looks like tørrfisk - stokkfisk to me !! Here in this area, drying salted cod on cliffs were the most common, also klippfisk, the one you use in Baccalao ;-). Kristiansund is nicknamed the "klippfisk" town !! Guess I have to read more about this thing, there are holes in my knowledge.;-)
Cheers, Oddrun 10:52, 17 June 2007 (MDT)

THX!!! Searched for stokkfisk and found all what I needed. In return something to look at and to enjoy - don't know if you have seen it. Is the best reproduction of that thing I do know ... ;-) Islandhopper 14:47, 17 June 2007 (MDT)

Don't think I've gone crazy , ;-) , I've just got rid of some old categories that has got new names, and we have forgot to get rid of the old one, Cheers , Oddrun 05:10, 1 July 2007 (MDT)

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Why did you delete the Shetland Football Leagues pages? JAStewart 15:42, 29 July 2007 (MDT)

If you look at the football category, you will see that everything still are there. We just did as we said on the talk pages, tidied it up a bit. ;-), Subcategories are meant for making it easier to navigate. As the category page was, it was just a jam of names and clubs and everything.
Oddrun 15:51, 29 July 2007 (MDT)

Thank you :-) Oddrun for saving my brother, you risked your very life to do so, Thank You, Thank You,Thank You What more can I say But thank You and love you ! :-)))) Jeannie

Just to explain that,,,,
I went for a shower last night and got the full force of the Norskie unprotected mains power through me.
Oddrun threw me out of it and that's why I'm still here. Just;-)
Robbie 18:55, 27 October 2007 (MDT)

Good to hear that both of you managed to escape ... Islandhopper 16:28, 28 October 2007 (MDT)

Glad to hear you're both okay.

Ghostrider 20:02, 29 October 2007 (MDT)