Hej – and welcome to your weekly ScandiKitchen lesson.
Summer is in full swing, so this week we talk beaches and lakes and nature stuff.
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Lake axe
If a Swede throws the axe in the lake (Kasta yxan i sjön) it means he’s giving up.
Beach find
In Iceland, if someone says I will find you on a beach (Ég mun finna þig í fjöru) it means they will get their revenge.
Beach lion
If you are a beach lion (strandløve) it means you’re a hunky, tanned muscular younger man on the beach.
Danish beach
Nowhere in Denmark is more than 50km from the beach.
Lake knowledge
A lake in Swedish is sjö, in Danish it is sø, innsjø in Norway and Järvi in Finnish.
Many lakes
There are more than 180,000 lakes in Finland (more than 10% of Finland’s total area is covered by water – that’s one lake per 26 people). Sweden only has about 95,000 lakes.
Time beach
A Dane might say that there has been a lot of water passing through the beach since (der er løbet meget vand i stranden siden), meaning a lot of things have passed.
Ship lake
If a Dane tells you that they’ve put ships out on the lake (sætte skibe i søen) it means they have started several projects or tasks.
