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Homesickness for Sweden
The object is a Swedish poem, cut out of a newspaper and assembled with a self-painted Swedish flag in a brass frame. Translated to English, it says:
Homesickness is
paying a fortune for a tin of herring fillets at the delicatessen
looking for ages for a shop that sells rye flour (rågmjöl) and then rushing home to fill the house with the smell of freshly baked bread
paying two pounds for five mi…
Contributors
- Barbara
Subject
- Emigration from Sweden
- Homesickness
- Immigration to Germany
- …
- Sweden
- Family
- Emotions
- Germany
- Prejudice
- Labour migration
- Human migration
Contributors
- Barbara
Subject
- Emigration from Sweden
- Homesickness
- Immigration to Germany
- …
- Sweden
- Family
- Emotions
- Germany
- Prejudice
- Labour migration
- Human migration
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Places
- Marburg
- Goteborg
- Gothenburg
- Marburg
- Germany
- Gothenburg
Identifier
- http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/eea474f0-090b-0136-93e1-4ecfc1fca471
Language
- en
- eng
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-07-25T07:45:36.823Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-11-03T11:22:04.772Z