Margarine

[Anders Christian Sivebaek]

>> > A margarine factory? I don't get it. Barks' "skunk oil" factory
sounds
>> > funny... You're right, it isn't particularly funny. I guess they
just 
>>wanted to
>>think of a factory that was as boring as possible,

>Maybe the danish translator, Sonia Rindom perhaps (?), was thinking
that as 
>there is no such thing as skunk oil, it should be changed. (?) And
that 
>translation came to other Skandinavian Disney-books too. 
I checked my versions of the story (two reprints - I don't know if the
dialogue is changed). At least in the reprints he does not talk about
margarine whatsoever. 

>She changed the 
>Screaming Cowboy to Crying Sailor also.. And that change was seen in
all 
>Skandinavian weeklies. Easy to see that they were translated from
danish 
>then..
The song of the Crying Sailor is a classic in Denmark. a singer made
it, a girl tried to claim she made it, and a mayopr newspaper made a
cotnast in 1999 telling people to make some more verses for it. They
sing it on the tune of Home on the range. (ranch?) - In Sweden the
founders of Nafs(k) travelled to Calisota and found the lyrics for it. 

AC

Timo

A. C. Sivebaek
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