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Skúffuskáld

icelandiclanguage:

In relation to the poetry posts, there is this Icelandic word skúffuskáld, which means someone who’s secretly a poet. It literally means “drawer poet”, someone who writes poetry but chugs it all into his desk drawer instead of showing it to people.

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24 Jan 2012 Reblogged from icelandiclanguage

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