A hard morning with a heavy head from the heat. The Norwegian husband reports. Today there was a “truppenatt”… I decided to ask again. Do I hear well? Yes, “truppenatt.” The second time it sounded somehow unaccustomed. The word natt — night. Well that I know. But this “truppa”… what is that? I ask again in English: “Body?” — “Nei!” answered the Norwegian husband and once more repeated “truppenatt”! Well then, I shall have to take up my own investigation of the word!
Luckily I always have 2 volumes of Berkov’s dictionary at hand, by weight like two bricks, only with very intellectual contents. From there I “draw” my knowledge of Norwegian. Hurrah! I found it! “trope” — that is the tropics! Tropenatt — a tropical night in Norway (above +20C). All the same a book is a source of knowledge!