"Jag är Döden."
Translation:I am Death.
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YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION, DON'T YOU? "Yes?" WELL YOU'RE GOING TO BE BJÖRN AGAIN.
- Vem är du?
- Jag är Döden.
"The seventh seal" by Ingemar Bergman:
And for those who don't know, the knight is Max von Sydow, who plays Lor San Tekka in the new Star Wars and the Three Eyed Raven in Game of Thrones.
I choose to believe this is why Bill and Ted call him Död after he introduces himself.
I have noticed that there is a lot of difference between the swedish accent in old movies and the one I hear now. I guess the one in old movies has been Stockholm's accent then since they sound pretty much like Olof Palme, the late swedish Prime Minister, who was born and raised in Östermalm, a district in Stockholm. But I don't hear that accent anywhere in Stockholm now. Am I right or wrong?
Spot on. Your best chance to hear it is still in Östermalm, I think there are a few really old and really conservative people left who still have some of it. (It's not just a Stockholm accent, it's a way of speaking people specifically used to learn in order to be on stage or on the radio).
I also notice that older Swedes speaking English have a Swedish-tinged RP (think BBC) accent, whilst younger Swedes have a Swedish-tinged American accent.
British English is still taught in school, but there are a lot more popular games and series in American English, so that's usually what sticks with kids
Fun fact: next year, Sweden will get an entirely new series of motives for our banknotes, exchanging the kings and scientists we've had for people who've played a big part in Swedish culture or society. For the new 200 kr banknote (http://www.riksbank.se/sv/Sedlar--mynt/Sedlar/Nya-sedlar/200-kronorssedel), director Ingmar Bergman was chosen. One of the images is from the set of the movie The seventh seal, where Bergman is instructing the actor playing Death. Thus, Sweden is quite possibly the first and only country to actually have Death itself(!) on the official banknotes. :D
awesome! (at first I thought you were going to have banknotes with Terry Pratchett though, and wondered what he had to do with Sweden) (and your banknotes are new and thus confusing to me, I just accidentaly gave someone 600 kronor while it should be 200 :P)
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You reminded me. I SHOULD GO GET ONE NOW!!! It's been a month and for some reason I haven't seen any of the new notes around yet. Maybe it's because I've quickly got accustomed to the Swedish practice of paying with cards...
It's because it's a movie quote, see HelenCarlssons comment above. 'Death' is an actual character in the movie.
Discussions like these make DL really worthwhile (among many other qualities, of course)
It's hard to translate properly, but something like this:
Jag är Döden vorden, världsförstöraren.
Is it too late to change my username? Because 'Death' would be such a cool name. :P
Why is „Döden „ written large? Is it a special case here becaues it is „mr death „ or is it always written large?
In general, it is döden, jultomten, djävulen, Lucia (an actual person’s name) but luciafirande (the celebration we do at Saint Lucia’s day). God can vary between lower-case gud (said by non-believers) and capital Gud (said by believers), I would say.
By the hint i wrote' the death'and was accepted, just "i am death" sounds better