The Little Runner

The Little Runner – First Draft  (English translation v.1)

Solveig is a little champion.

Solveig is a little running champion.

Solveign is a little running champion from Iceland.

Normally, running champions are from Ethiopia or Kenya.

Solveig is a little running champion from Iceland.

Solveig, the little running champion from Iceland, lives is kirkjubaejarklaustur, a small village in the south of Iceland. 
It is very difficult to pronounce the village's name kirkjubaejarklaustur, so everyone say klaustur instead.

«  Where are you going  ?  »  Answer «  Running.  » «  She tires me out  !  »

But Solveig, the little running champion trains in Vik, a village nearby.
Vik is an easy name to say.
In Vik, Solveig lives with her aunt and uncle, close to the stadium and the sea.

«  Where are you going  ?  »  Answer «  Running.  » «  She tires me out  !  »

Solveig, the little running champion trains with other young runners at the foot of the cliffs.
Solveig's trainer, a former icehockey player, isn't very funny.  But he doesn't say much because Solveig runs all the time.

In the summer, Solveig runs every day.  The sun never wants to set.
In the summer, Solveig runs between the raindrops, over the river torrents, through the middle of tourists, around the four-wheel drives, out along the deserts, the glaciers and volcanoes.

In the winter, Solveig runs every night.  The sun never wants to rise.
In the winter, Solveig runs between the snowflakes, over the snowdrifts, through the middle of nowhere, around the skidoos, out along the deserts, the glaciers and the volcanoes.

When she runs, Solveig talks to the puffins, the terns and the seagulls, the swans, the geese, the sheep, the horses, the foxes, the seals, the whales.

She calls all the whales «  Dickiiiie  !  ».
«  Hello  ».  Answer «  Hello  ».

When she runs, Solveigs talks to the river torrents, the lakes, the sea, the stones, the rocks, the moraines, the firns, the glaciers.

She calls all the glaciers «  Joe, coool  ».
«  Hello  ».  Answer «  Hello  ».

But her greatest pleasure running is when she talks to the volcanoes.

She calls all the volcanoes «  Chaaarles  !  ».
«  Hello  ».  Answer «  Hello  ».

One day Solveig stops running to watch an Olympic atheltics race on the television.

«  What are you doing here  ?  »  Answer «  I am looking at the race.  »  «  She tires me out.  »

Another day, someone says to the little running champion from Iceland
«  Solveig, you run fast.  Come and run with the other champions in Paris.  »

«  Pfffff.  Those girls run too fast.  »

Solveig, the little running champion from Iceland is back in her own country now.

«  Where are you going  ?  »  Answer «  Running  ».  «  She tires me out  !  »