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Danish
Etymology
After Grædemuren (“the Wailing Wall”).
Noun
grædemur
- something that one aims complaints in the direction of
2014, Karin Fossum, translated by Poul Bratbjerg Hansen, Carmen Zita og døden, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:Men i modsætning til dig har jeg i hvert fald et sted at gå hen med min sorg. Andre driver om uden mål og med, det ville jeg ikke have orket. Jeg har brug for en grædemur.- But unlike you , I at least have somewhere to go with my sorrow. Others drift around without purpose or destination, I wouldn't have been able to bear it. I need a Wailing Wall.
1997, Jens Andersen, Til døden os skiller: et portræt af Tove Ditlevsen:Ditlevsen gik direkte ind i rollen som Miss Lonely Hearts, men var – viste det sig snart – noget andet og mere end en grædemur. Hun mestrede den svære kunst at slutte sig naturligt til den spørgendes mentalitet, forudsætninger og erfaringsområde.- Ditlevsen went right into her role as Miss Lonely Hearts, but was -- it soon turned out -- something else and more than a Wailing Wall. She mastered the difficult art of naturally tuning in to the asker's mentality, preconditions, and area of experience.