Vand Under Neglene - Getting Our Hands Wet
Publisher: Forlaget BIOS
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Copenhagen Denmark
Language: dan
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
Description: "The book is about much more than the big, exciting Viking ship project. Among other things it
explains what was really behind the persistent local legend that firmly linked Queen Margrete to the
shipping blockade. The rest of the story is not without excitement and drama. An unknown and exotic
young girl, Daughter of the Sea, emerges at the right moment, just as we are about to examine the
shipwreck, providing extra impetus in the hunt for the secret of the wreck. Later she disappears once
more, just as my own participation in the project was nearing its end. But that's quite another story that
you can read about in my new novel, Vand under neglene."
About the book: Vand under neglene (Getting Our Nails Wet) Vand under neglene by Åge Skjelborg
has just been released by BIOS publishers. The book costs 198 Danish kroner and can be ordered from
any Danish bookseller or via the publisher's website www.forlagetBIOS.dk .
The story is based on Åge Skjelborg's recollections from the Viking ship find in 1950s' Denmark. Apart
from that it is difficult to know exactly where reality ends and fiction takes over in the documentary
novel, Vand under neglene. And it really doesn't matter, in Åge Skjelborg's splendid tale of three young
people trying to shake off the last remnants of the Second World War.
The storyteller travels with his aunt to the bombed-out city of Hamburg where a German uncle, former
submarine captain in Hitler's Bundesmarine, trains his more-than-willing nephew as diver and marine
archeologist. During his stay in Hamburg the first-person storyteller meets a young German pianist and
they fall in love. She is plagued by a serious war trauma, and together they try to solve the girl's
oppressive problems. The two young people have to separate in the middle of a vulnerable process but
agree to stay in contact..

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Table of contents: label: Charpter 1
pagenum: 7
title: The Face of The Deep Sea; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 13
title: Return of an Adventures Lady; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 20
title: The Girl of the City of Ruins; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 24
title: A Love Affair; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: 33
title: Shadows of War; label: Chapter 6
pagenum: 44
title: A Downturn; label: Chapter 7
pagenum: 50
title: Firestorm; label: Chapter 8
pagenum: 63
title: An Elegy for a sunken War Museum; label: Chapter 9
pagenum: 73
title: Bunker Service; label: Chapter 10
pagenum: 79
title: The Shipwreck Detective; label: Chapter 11
pagenum: 115
title: Finding the Queens sunken Fleet; label: Chapter 11
pagenum: 161 |
title: The Girl of the Seven Seas; label: Chapter 12
pagenum: 177
title: The Secret of the  Adventurous Lady; label: Chapter 13
pagenum: 195
title: A Writer's Block and the Return of a Queen