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To: retrokitten

I figured Durmstrang was in Siberia due to the “heavy fur coats” that were mentioned.


335 posted on 07/15/2007 2:05:16 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Nearly 1% of illegals are in prison for felonies. Less than 1/10 of 1% of the legal population is.)
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To: Politicalmom
Durm and strang is a spoonerism of Sturm und Drang

The conventional translation of Sturm und Drang is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge, storm and longing, or storm and impulse.

It is the name of a movement in German literature and music in which individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in response to the confines of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment.

Therefore Drumstrang is doubtless in Germany or at least a Germanic country...

340 posted on 07/15/2007 5:07:28 PM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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