Field diary·DII:3c·1928–1930

Petra tou Limniti and VouniAlfred Westholm

·

Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 28 of field diary DII:3c (Petra tou Limniti and Vouni), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3c, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 28 of 164

Continued from scan 27

… but now they had to return up to the palace at Vouni with nothing but disappointment in their hearts. The awareness that the small, hard-to-discover cult place could have become a full hit was cold comfort. Perseverance is admittedly more valuable than much enthusiasm, but without with constant bad luck ahead of one, a person is merely ἄχρηστον κομμάτιον.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain