This is a list of Scanian proverbs and sayings.
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Au all kogesmad e kaffegøgen den bäste.
- Translation: "Out of all cookery, the coffee laced with schnapps is the best."
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De e får sent å stia upp tidit når en vagnar klockan elva.
- Translation: "It's to late to rise early when you wake eleven o'clock."
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De vøre ajn grannår tøs åm hoded va au na.
- Translation: "She would be a nice girl if she didn't have her head."
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Den medicin som passar skräddarn, kan skomágarn dø utav.
- Translation: "The medicine that cures the tailor can kill the shoemaker."
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Dø man e svår å väcka.
- Translation: "Dead man is hard to wake."
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Ed å ta bug fårr i morron kommer rakkaren å tar skinged.
- Translation: "Eat and take belly, because tomorrow the assistant of the executioner will come to take the skin."
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En ska ente eda valium innan en går ud.
- Translation: "You shouldn't eat valium before going out."
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Etter maden må en hälla si' och blunga litta i skumme.
- Translation: "After the meal, one has to be still and shut the eyes for a while in the gloom."
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Go mad, møed mad, mad i rättan ti - å så madaro!
- Translation: "Tasty food, plenty of food, food in the right time - and peace at mealtimes!"
- Notes: Considered to be the national motto of scanians
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Gåsen e får liden får två men får stor får inn.
- Translation: "The goose is too small for two but to big for one."
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Inn skåning e barra svensk unnor Hockey-VM.
- Translation: "A scanian is only swedish during the icehockey world championships."
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Ja kåmmår ijän, sa kärringen såm fåsstna i møllevingen.
- Translation: "I'll come again, said the woman who got caught in wing of the windmill."
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Maden e halva fødan, resten e sill å päror.
- Translation: "The food is half the provisions, the rest is herring and potatoes."
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Smens märr o skomagarens glytta, de går alltid barfytta.
- Translation: "The mare of the smith and the children of the shoemaker, allways goes barefooted."
- Ung kan sporja längjer än gammal ha varred!
- Translation: "A youngster can ask further than an aged has been."
Last updated: 10-26-2005 03:52:15