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Gadianton Plumber wrote:In the story, the nisse have crashed their plane in Trondheim, next to a potato farm. They take shelter while one nisse attempts to carve a new propeller for the plane. They are somewhat pressed for time as the oldest elf is dying back in elf land (Nowegians don't have Santa). Their efforts are challenged by the appearance of a strange man who imposes on the hospitality of the potato farmer and his wife (who are unaware of the nisse). He calls himself Benny, but is actually a nåsså, a kind of troll who hates and preys on nisse. He suspects the nisse are in the vicinity and wants to kill them. The story takes turns and twists as some things go wrong and others go right as Benny closes in on them, eventually stealing their guidebook of Norway they found in the barn. (When the nisse are confused by a local custom one opens the book only to declare "skit, it's paa norsk!!!)

cinepro wrote:

Gadianton Plumber wrote:Nyal's Harem.
I mean can you imagine this while you are trying to sleep? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDzKpeN7Zuk&translated=1)

What. The. Heck.

Is that like Norway's version of "The Wiggles"? Do they even speak English, or are they just singing phonetically?

Dr. Shades wrote:

Gadianton Plumber wrote:In the story, the nisse have crashed their plane in Trondheim, next to a potato farm. They take shelter while one nisse attempts to carve a new propeller for the plane. They are somewhat pressed for time as the oldest elf is dying back in elf land (Nowegians don't have Santa). Their efforts are challenged by the appearance of a strange man who imposes on the hospitality of the potato farmer and his wife (who are unaware of the nisse). He calls himself Benny, but is actually a nåsså, a kind of troll who hates and preys on nisse. He suspects the nisse are in the vicinity and wants to kill them. The story takes turns and twists as some things go wrong and others go right as Benny closes in on them, eventually stealing their guidebook of Norway they found in the barn. (When the nisse are confused by a local custom one opens the book only to declare "skit, it's paa norsk!!!)

That is the single most bizarre paragraph I have ever read in my life.

Gadianton Plumber wrote:What was so bizarre about it?

Dr. Shades wrote:That is the single most bizarre paragraph I have ever read in my life.

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Some Schmo wrote:

Jersey Girl wrote: by the way, the map is backwards, likely drawn by a man.

You're objecting over the long, 3.5 hour squiggly line being drawn backward?!

hehehe

Oooohhh man, I love women.

;)

Dr. Shades wrote:

Gadianton Plumber wrote:What was so bizarre about it?

A plot whose climax is when a troll steals a guidebook of Norway from elves? How is that not bizarre?