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Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.
American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.
Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.
Sassenach I might be to him, but not English.
I clarified that I myself was Colombian.
"What is 'being Colombian'?"
"I'm not sure," I replied. "It's an act of faith."
"Like being Norwegian," she said, nodding.
I can recall nothing further of what was said that night.
Flemming Axmark, and Preben Hansen. The Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Copenhagen: Nordisk
Jesper couldn't keep the disdain from his voice. "Only Nina and Matthias speak Fjerdan."
"I speak Fjerdan," Wylan protested.
"Schoolroom Fjerdan, right? I bet you speak Fjerdan about as well as I speak moose."
"Moose is probably your native tongue," mumbled Wylan.
I feel pride in being a Greenlander.
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.
I am just a Flemish girl with her feet on the ground.
I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
There's no-one up there in Northern Norway , food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.
My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
Swedes up in Dakota - know what they do sometimes? Put pepper on the floor. Gits up the ladies' skirts an' makes 'em purty lively - lively as a filly in season. Swedes do that sometimes." In
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me ...
Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do.
There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for homicide; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;
I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.
Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom.
STRYMAKTFJERDAN. Fjerdan might.
I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.
I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.'
'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish?
Do you always curse in Danish?" he asked.
She shook her head and flashed him a smile. "No," she replied. "I can curse in seventeen languages - and I can tell you to fuck me in twenty-four.
I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
I don't even know what it means to be Korean..." he said.
"Well, I don't know what it means to be Danish and Scottish," she said. "Does it matter?"
"I think so. Because it's the number one thing people use to identify me. It's my main thing.
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.
Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin.
I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture
Good stuff!" [Knud] said. "All organic, of course! All fresh! We take care of the earth here! You like smoked herring? You will. Of course you will! I work in iron, though I have also done some of these wood carvings. All of my work is based on traditional Danish art. I am a Viking! Eat!
Troll welcomes you to Norway, (these legendary creatures live throughout the mountains of Norway)
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
I'm bored, lalalallalalala OLLI OXEN SOMETHING!!
I would like a cappuccino," says Linus politely. "Thank you."
"Your name?"
"I'll spell it for you," he says. "Z-W-P-A-E-N
"
"What?" She stares at him, Sharpie in hand.
"Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. "It's Dutch.
I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
Irish as a Paddy's pig.
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
Norway will be recognized as an open democracy with the rule of law, with the universal human rights, and with the broad international engagement on the international scene taking upon ourselves responsibilities, because we are a privileged country.
Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.
I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.
When the game ended, Mike laid down his control paddle. "So you've met the Nordic goddess, right?"
Aria glanced up at him warily. "Excuse me?"
Mike rolled his eyes. "Duh. Klaudia, which I'm pretty sure is Scandinavian for sex vixen.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
I am a rune a carrot a little joke
My language is the sum total of myself.
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
This danish is too sweetish to finish.
And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors. I just said, "This is something to get on board with."
I have no nationality, no country.
The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see,They live in fredome, everich in his kynd.And I a man, and lakkith libertee.
Perhaps Danish happiness is not really happiness at all, but something much more valuable and durable: contentedness, being satisfied with your lot, low-level needs being met, higher expectations being kept in check.
The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.
Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.
Aren't I going back to England?"
"No," she said. "I Could never do that. Heaven shall take my soul, but Norway shall keep my bones".
The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
Look at this. A barstool, named Sven? Some old Swedish custom, the winter kicks in, weather gets harsh, after a while you find yourself relating to the furniture in ways you didn't expect?
They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It's the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn't have sisu, that's like spitting in his face.
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
My first language is Gaelic.
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.
Why would they follow me?" I asked Swedish. "It doesn't make sense."
"They're made of trash and Fog," he said. "You think they make sense?
[about her offer of a Swedish massage]
Alex: You're not Swedish.
Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.
People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold.
The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
Is there a Swedish Modernism?
the son of Olaf. The latter was a tall,
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
Denmark's a prison.
Norway has a relationship with the EU which is very close. It has to accept most EU rules. It has to pay EU membership fees. It has free movement of people just like other EU countries, but it's not actually in the EU.
Denmark is like a big family of people.
A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.
And a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove
What kind of love demands the life of another? A child at that?"
"Danish love, my sweet. Can't you smell it?
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.
Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.
We're not troubled at all, but I think ... Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls.
German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America
Swedes, compared to Americans, can seem a little cold and introverted.
[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage ...
I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend. [on an upcoming trip to Denmark]
BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.
It's not just dark in Scandinavia.
Everyone is equal - a strange Swedish mentality.
Of course you have a boat. You're a Viking.
My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.