Fjordlandia Viking bar & kaffistove, main str. 221B, Needlehole

erm.. it was a bear right, a real bear? or.. i can't remember..

It was supposed to be a real bear, but it looks more like an old bear rug stitched over a fake body. It shows especially when the legs flop as they carry it.

I know I'm getting as persnickity as Petty, but for me it suddenly looked like nothing more than a giant teddy bear, and it made it harder for me to believe in the trolls.

I saw "Troll Hunter" & I liked it, I really like weird stuff, & Scandi weird stuff fits the bill. I watched "Rare Exports", thats weird & Scandi also. "Let the right one in" is a vampire film, atmospheric & Swedish, Theres actually quite a bit of good films coming out from Scandinavia !

i can't remember the bear, but yes, it's hard to find a real dead bear x) i was probably annoyed by it too.

i think i know what films you mean, though i am not sure i have seen them, maybe Rare Exports, but i am not too sure.

btw, has anyone seen Max Manus or Kon Tiki (our biggest pride)?

Ive seen "Max Manus", got it in my collection somewhere, only watched it once though. Il look out for "Kon Tiki", thanks Norc.

Had a look on IMDB & the trailer looks good ! I know OF the story but not seen a film of it.

i haven't seen Kon Tiki either, but Max Manus was great

based on a true story

Sure was Norc, dug the film out this afternoon, brilliant film, sheer bravery in a time of sheer terror.

and the actor is such a great actor

The scene were the two blonde guys are in the coffee shop, one shoots the bald guy sitting with them & then the Germans charge thru,firing, sticks in my mind. The guy that plays Max IS good,

i need to rewatch the movie i remember i saw it like three times when i bought the movie, it was great.

azriel wrote:

haven't seen this movie, but omg it looks great. I've heard about it though. It's finnish, but it's filmed just around two-three hours drive away from where i live

i am actually trying to teach you norwegian here. you're welcome.

I saw that Finnish film, it freaked me out, it looked like they hated Santa, if somebody can explain why Santa was the baddie?

Hold on a sec Norc- I think I have got confused somehwere on the whole language thing- Fjordians speak a different language than the one you write in? Is that right?

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Hold on a sec Norc- I think I have got confused somehwere on the whole language thing- Fjordians speak a different language than the one you write in? Is that right?

And how is that different than Glasgow?

now you're getting it.
(bad) example. i am called Nora(there's a verb for being named which doesn't exist in the english language, but does in german ich heiße, looks the same because it comes from german during the hansa-time )

nynorsk.
Eg heiter Nora
pronounced.. more or less the same.

Bokmål:
Jeg heter Nora
pronounced....jei

dialect:
Æ hete Nora
pronounced the awesomest way imagenable
(+a hundred different forms)

my name is Nora would be:
nynorsk:
namnet mitt er Nora

bomål
mitt navn er Nora

dialect:
navne mitt e Nora.

freaking ridiculous. i bet amarië is better at explaining this, she has a more.. weirder dialect than me x) i think.

btw, the video is so cute, but it's nice to get an outside view on that shit.

also, funfact. swedish, although it has a lot of different words (e.g. from french) and some just meaning different, when you look at the main structure of a sentece, it's not more different than norwegian dialects.

Norc wrote:

I so love love love when he says "Ivar Aasen" it sounds almost like "Ivar Awesome".
He and Tolkien would have been best of friends (assuming Ivar spoke English and the two actually met).

The Nynorsk version of Lord of the Rings - Ringdrotten is very enjoyable. The elves speak Ivar Aasens Landsmaal from 1864- the original version on Nynorsk, the Hobbits use a country dialect and so on. It is fantastic.

In my dialect I'd say "Ej (ey) heite Amarië".

i met a real nynorsk enthusiast. she'd read ringdrotten. once in the future i'de like to read that too i tried the hobbit, but it was a bit too much. politically i am all for nynorsk, though i haven't been tought up to write it from like first grade, so in reality i, not hate it, but i find it a bit harder than bokmål (although, i am top in my class )

"Ringdrotten" (the book that is ) is the best thing to ever happen to the Norwegian language and Norwegian Tolkien fans