Vampire Info--rather long

[rcraigharman at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20316

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> > Krum's father spoke in Bulgarian.
> 
> I've wondered about this too, and am not sure.  I initially assumed 
> that it was somewhere in Eastern Europe, but when they have started 
> talking about mountains and glaciers, I thought that perhaps it
> could be somewhere in Scandinavia.

There are five primary locations for proper glaciers in Europe:

(1) coastal Norway
(2) Arctic circle islands: Svalbard [Norway], Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa
(Franz-Josef-Land) and Novaya Zemlya [Russia], and the Kola Peninsula
[Russia]
(3) Pyrenees [Spain and France]
(4) Alps [France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia]
(5) Caucasus [primarily Russia]

I always assumed a Swiss/Austrian location from the name "Durmstrang"
which is a cute play on "Sturm und Drang" (literally, "storm and
stress"), the German literary movement whose works describe
the struggle of an emotional individual against his society.  The
term is used to refer to struggle, revolt, upheaval, and chaos.

....Craig