G+ Circle Naming

[amberley]

People contemplating how to name their Google+ circles may find this quote handy:

"The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlanning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is the framling. This is the stranger that we recognize as

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[liralen]

*falls over giggling*

[chrisber]

I've never heard the term 'raman', but the descriptions of 'utlanning' (umlaut on the a) and 'framling' (again, unlaut on the a) match the connotations I remember from Swedish. I would translate 'varelse' as creature, but it could be applied to a ghost. 'Djur' just means animal.