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[Egil Pettersen]

Hi

This is my first letter to this group as I have just been connected 
to Internet. I hope you guys out there don´t mind if I don´t know the 
rules yet.
Mike asked if any of the translators actually asks Don Rosa when a 
problem comes up. I wrote him and told what I do, but maybe the info 
is also of interest to others. Here goes:

I have done work on the Norwegian translation of Don´s stories, f.i. 
on the Family tree and on Life of $crooge. It takes a lot of time to 
try to get the names as correct as possible. I first get the stuff 
with Don´s text, and then my job is to try to figure out which of the 
characters  and places that has been used by Barks earlier. Then I 
try to find the correct American magazine where they were printed 
first, and where these names were first published in Norway. If in 
doubt, Don was contacted. It would help a lot to have a list of the 
sources Don has used on each story, and I understand that he tries to 
send one with the new stories he makes. However, none of these lists 
has ever reached me.

So there are lots of work done before the actual translation 
starts.This is done to try to get the result as close to the original 
Norwegian translation of Barks´s names as possible, and although it 
takes time, we hope it´s worth it. At least we know that we do our 
best trying to get Don´s work to the Norwegian readers as accurate as 
possible.  Maybe it would be a good idea to get your sources on 
Internet, Don? Then at least it would get here!

Erik Hørthe