TAK and the Burglar
Hjalti samdi Tak-sögurnar og teiknaði myndirnar á árunum 1975-´79, þá 5 - 10 ára; (nítján hundruð sjötíu og fimm til sjötíu og níu, fimm til tíu ára) flestar sagnanna voru í Stundinni okkar.
Hjalti made the stories and drew the pictures in years 1975-´8 then 5-10 years old. Tak the alien was broadcasted in Children‘s Hour on TV 1975-1980. Hjalti Útgefandi/publisher: Freyjukettir, Norræn menning (út-gefandi Freyju-kettir norr-ö-n menn+ing) 1983 Bangsabók Fjölva
Tak is in bed.
When he is about to fall asleep, he hears some sneaky noise. -What noise could this be, Tak asks himself.
-I can clearly hear something. (eitt-hvert; greini+lega; note: eitthvert is neuter acc. sing. as is þrusk)
Now, Tak sees one big white eye. -Could this be a one-eyed space ghost ? Tak says.
(ein-eygður;
geim-draugur)
It is safer to hide under the bed.
Tak now sees that this is the Burglar-alien.
Burgly aims the torch beam at the bed, and sees that nobody is there (/it is empty).
(inn-brota-geim-vera)
Burgly
opens Tak‘s
drawer. (inn-broti)
There Burgly finds a bone which has a cork in one end, but he does not know that there is a ghost inside the bone. -Here are some precious things kept, for sure, Burgly says. (sauða-leggur; á-reiðan+lega; verð-mæti) Note: (+) means suffix, (-) means compound word
.
As soon as Burgly removes the cork, the ghost rushes out of the bone. -I like the darkness, says the ghost.
(skemmti+legur)
Burgly runs towards the window and screams: -HELP ! A GHOST ! What ? -He
is
asking
a
ghost
to help
him,
the ghost thinks.
(draugur pronounced: dreu-g-eurr, --with accent on the first syllable as always in Icelandic-hva = hvað)
Burgly gets caught in the curtain when he jumps out of the window. (glugga-tjald w. definite article glugga-tjaldið
The
ghost chases
Burgly
and laughs
a spooky ghost laughter. -Ho
ho ho ho
! Burgly
screams
out: -Help,
a
ghost ! Help, police, help ! (drauga-hlátur; dimmum draugahláti er/is tækisfall / instrumentalis case of draugahlátur lög-regla)
-What ? says one of the space policemen. -Do we need to arrest ghosts ? -Oh yes, if they are scaring people.
(geim-lögga -
lögga is short for lögregla (lög-regla))
When the ghost hears this, he stops chasing Burgly.
But the police think that Burgly is the ghost and start chasing him.
(draugsi = cute name for draugur)
Tak closed the window...
... and went to bed.
When the ghost returns, the window is closed....
... but he just enters through the window glass.
drawer is open.
The
The ghost sees Tak‘s candy box
. (á
is here verb eiga : Tak á GOTT-pakka; gott is short for gotterí = sweets)
The ghost empties the candy box. He pours the whole lot into the bone. After that, he goes into the bone himself. (sauða-leggur)
Tak puts the cork back into the bone.
-SMACK SMACK !
I like the dark, the ghost says.
(skemmti+legt)
Tak puts the bone into the drawer and goes back to sleep.
ENDIR
THE END
-SMACK SMACK !
30 TAK-sögur
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for
kids