Names for avid readers 📚 by language (more and more, in the replies👇)

[natasha_jay@tech.lgbt]

Names for avid readers by language (more and more, in the replies)

English/Dutch: Bookworm / Boekenwurm

Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)

French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)

German: Read-rat (Leseratte)

Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)

Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)

Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)

Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)

Greek: Bookeater (βιβλιοφάγος)

Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)

Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)

Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách) 

#books #reading

[svuorela@helvede.net]

@Natasha_Jay It's læsehest (with æ, not e) in danish (but bogorm (bookworm) can also work)

- and I'm raising a beacon to our Grundtvig professor @SuneAuken with

"hælvten Skjald og hælvten Bog-Orm maa i det Hele udgjøre en Skribent" (N.F.S. Grundtvig, 1827).

[suneauken@mastodon.world]

@svuorela @Natasha_Jay

Oh yes. This is from the very curious document "Skribenten
Nik. Fred. Sev. Grundtvigs Literaire Testamente" (pg 11) - "The Literary Testament of the Writer Nik. Fred. Sev. Grundtvig".

Not incidentally, he kept om writing for more than 40 years from that point.

Also, he is said to have been a "book worm" in the sense, too, that his books looked like he had eaten them after he was done reading.