Bøger af Emilie Demant Hatt

Forårsbølger er en fantastisk erindringsbog - en dramatisk kærlighedshistorie mellem den da 22-årige komponist Carl Nielsen og den 14-årige Emilie Demant Hatt. Teksten har ikke tidligere været offentliggjort. Den er noget af en sensation for Carl Nielsen-forskere, fordi den udfylder et vigtigt tomrum i kildematerialet. Samtidig henvender den sig gennem sin medrivende historie til alle og enhver. Den er således et naturligt supplement til Min fynske barndom.Bogen er illustreret med bl.a. hidtil ukendte noder, fotografier og kærlighedsbreve, som Emilie Demant Hatt har bevaret.Bogen er ledsaget af noter og et forord skrevet af Carl Nielsen-forskeren John Fellow.

The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century   Although versions of tales about wizards and magical reindeer from northern Scandinavia are found in European folk and fairytale collections, stories told by the indigenous Nordic Sami themselves are rare in English translation. The stories in By the Fire, collected by the Danish artist and ethnographer Emilie Demant Hatt (1873–1958) during her travels in the early twentieth century among the nomadic Sami in Swedish Sápmi, are the exception—and a matchless pleasure, granting entry to a fascinating world of wonder and peril, of nature imbued with spirits, and strangers to be outwitted with gumption and craft.Between 1907 and 1916 Demant Hatt recorded tales of magic animals, otherworldly girls who marry Sami men, and cannibalistic ogres or Stallos. Many of her storytellers were women, and the memorable tales included in this collection tell of plucky girls and women who outfox their attackers (whether Russian bandits, mysterious Dog-Turks, or Swedish farmers) and save their people. Here as well are tales of ghosts and pestilent spirits, murdered babies who come back to haunt their parents, and legends in which the Sami are both persecuted by their enemies and cleverly resistant. By the Fire, first published in Danish in 1922, features Demant Hatt’s original linoleum prints, incorporating and transforming her visual memories of Sápmi in a style influenced by the northern European Expressionists after World War I.With Demant Hatt’s field notes and commentary and translator Barbara Sjoholm’s Afterword (accompanied by photographs), this first English publication of By the Fire is at once a significant contribution to the canon of world literature, a unique glimpse into Sami culture, and a testament to the enduring art of storytelling.

Om ”Forårsbølger” - lydbogForårsbølger er en fantastisk erindringsbog - en dramatisk kærlighedshistorie mellem den 22-årige komponist Carl Nielsen og den 14-årige Emilie Demant Hatt. En medrivende fortælling, der fungerer som et perfekt supplement til Min fynske barndom. Bogen giver et levende indblik i den unge Carl Nielsens karakter og personlighedOm forfatterenEmilie Demant Hatt (1873-1958)Emilie var Carl Nielsens ungdomskærlighed fra hun var 14, og han var 22 år. Hendes onkel og tante var Carl Nielsens plejeforældre, og de to unge mødtes i Emilies hjem ved Limfjorden, hvor Carl Nielsen tilbragte mange ferier. Emilie blev senere etnolog og billedkunstner, og hun skrev bogen om Carl Nielsen i 1949, da hun var 76 år gammel.”Forårsbølger” er indlæst som lydbog af Jette Mechlenburg

With the Lapps in the High Mountains is an entrancing true account, a classic of travel literature, and a work that deserves wider recognition as an early contribution to ethnographic writing. Published in 1913 and available here in its first English translation, it is the narrative of Emilie Demant Hatt's nine-month stay in the tent of a Sami family in northern Sweden in 1907-8 and her participation in a dramatic reindeer migration over snow-packed mountains to Norway with another Sami community in 1908. A single woman in her thirties, Demant Hatt immersed herself in the Sami language and culture. She writes vividly of daily life, women's work, children's play, and the care of reindeer herds in Lapland a century ago. While still an art student in Copenhagen in 1904, Demant Hatt had taken a vacation trip to northern Sweden, where she chanced to meet Sami wolf hunter Johan Turi. His dream of writing a book about his people sparked her interest in the culture, and she began to study the Sami language at the University of Copenhagen. Though not formally trained as an ethnographer, she had an eye for detail. The journals, photographs, sketches, and paintings she made during her travels with the Sami enriched her eventual book, and in With the Lapps in the High Mountains she memorably portrays people, dogs, reindeer, and the beauty of the landscape above the Arctic Circle. This English-language edition also includes photographs by Demant Hatt, an introduction by translator Barbara Sjoholm, and a foreword by Hugh Beach, author of A Year in Lapland: Guest of the Reindeer Herders.