Har gjort lite efterforskningar (google) angående ordet trapalanda. Det verkar vara ganska så sammanlänkat med hästar på åtminstone engelska, det ser ut som om hästhimmel är en betydelse av ordet även där. Sedan finns det tydligen någon argentinsk myt om trapalanda också. Samt ett berg i Argentina som bär namnet.
snabbsammanfattning
- stuteri, USA
- berg, Argentina
- stuteri, Canada
- stall, USA (känns på något sätt lite illavarlande att stalla upp sin häst i trapalanda!)
- SF-bok av Charles Sheffield
- någon sorts hästshow, Canada
Citat om Trapalanda som hästhimmel
Surely this must be Trapalanda, horse heaven.
http://www.akhalteke.cc/stainestrip2.html
Ruth Staines (låter ju engelskt/amerikanskt iallafall)
I have had several horses during my life, the others have now, sadly gone to 'Trapalanda',the Cowboy's Heaven, where I like to imagine them galloping around over endless grassy plains.
USA (Cowboy's heaven??)
Citat om det argentinska trapalanda
Stories of a fabled civilization - variously called Trapalanda or the City of the Cesars - persisted well into the eighteenth century, tempting many into expeditions whose only return was hardship.
http://dg.ian.com/index.jsp?cid=69280&action=viewLocation&formId=85573
Maybe it was the risky attraction to the unknown, the lack of control on nature’s forces, the dreams and myths, such as the "Enchanted city of Gold and Silver", or "Trapalanda, the home of the Immortal Beings", or the more realistic - but no less dramatic - intent to colonize what moved and seduced those that would risk their lives to try what seemed impossible.
http://www.anima.com.ar/patagonia/h1_e.htm
Carolyne Lee Ryan, "Trapalanda: An Argentine Myth in Historical and Literary Context"
(ur ett föredragsschema)
Indians and Jesuits are gone from Paraguay, the Indians to that Trapalanda which is their appointed place; and for the Jesuits, they are forgotten, except by those who dive into old chronicles, or who write books, proposing something and concluding nothing, or by travellers, who, wandering in the Tarumensian woods, come on a clump of orange-trees run wild amongst the urundeys.
Perhaps it was the mystic Trapalanda of which the Gauchos used to discourse at night when seated round a fire of bones upon the pampa.
(Båda de ovanstående styckena ur samma uppsats)
Och det här tar jag tacksamt emot hjälp med att tyda.
"and they trapalanda to longest out."
(från någon sorts litteratursida.)
Nejdå, jag är inte alls off-topic...eller?