Den stegrande kamelen skrev:
Sedan är det ju väldigt typiskt Ohlmarks att han översätter samma ord helt rätt redan i nästa mening, men ändå inte kommer på att han kanske borde fundera en gång till på den föregående meningen...
Det är värre än så. Det är fullt av svin i boken, tio stycken bara i det här stycket, varav två omedelbart före björnen. Men det är bara ett av de tio som Ohlmarks förvandlar till en björn. Ja, när spjutet självt dyker upp igen lite senare i stycket är det ett vanligt spjut.
T. H. White (min fetstil) skrev:
Boar-hunting was fun. It was nothing like badger-digging or covert-shooting or fox-hunting to-day. Perhaps the nearest thing to it would be ferreting for rabbits: except that you used dogs instead of ferrets, had a boar that quite easily might kill you, instead of a rabbit, and carried a boar-spear upon which your life depended instead of a gun. They did not usually hunt the boar on horseback. Perhaps the reason for this was that the boar season happened in the two winter months, when the old English snow would be liable to ball in your horse's hoofs and render galloping too dangerous. The result was that you were yourself on foot, armed only with steel, against an adversary who weighed a good deal more than you did and who could unseam you from the nave to the chaps, and set your head upon his battlements. There was only one rule in boar-hunting. It was: Hold on. If the boar charged you, you had to drop on one knee and present your boar-spear in his direction. You held the butt of it with your right hand on the ground to take the shock, while you stretched your left arm to its fullest extent and held the spear tightly with it, as high up as possible. You kept the point towards the charging boar. The spear was as sharp as a razor, and it had a cross-piece about eighteen inches away from the point. This cross-piece or horizontal bar prevented the spear from going more than eighteen inches into his chest. Without the cross-piece, a charging boar would have been capable of rushing right up the spear, even if it did go through him, and getting at you like that. But with the cross-piece he was held away from you at a spear's length, with eighteen inches of steel inside him. It was in this situation that you had to hold on.