This is jantelagen Posted by Gabriel on Feb 16, 2010 in Swedish Language
Keep learning Swedish with us!
Build vocabulary, practice pronunciation, and more with Transparent Language Online. Available anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Comments:
Tom:
Your video was quite OK!
Slemmig:
jantelagen-was-founded-by-a-danish-priest-but-the-Swedes-stole-it-or-found-better-use-of-it…
Willow:
^
Jantelagen was not founded by a Danish priest. It was first written down by Aksel Sandemose (a Danish/Norwegian) in 1933 in A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks/ En Flyktning Krysser Sitt Spor. He wrote about a town called Jante, based on his hometown of Nykøbing Mors, as it was in the beginning of the 20th century. The swedes did not steal it, the jantelagen were already a very present set of unwritten rules. It also very much relates to the Swedish principle of Lagom. As a side note; Sandemose was a bit out of it. He won the Nobel Price for literature in 1963 yet he was involved in several murder cases. Including one in which he fled Norway into Denmark and had children with a woman other than his wife. His sons accused him several times of incest and pedophilia. He is on the side of a Norwegian airplane as a part of their Norgegian Heroes collection. (I don’t know why- he’s a creep.)