"Det finns sju berömda böcker om en trollkarl."
Translation:There are seven famous books about a wizard.
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This has been my favourite lesson so far! Thanks for all your efforts Team Sverige! And I hope that you will be able to do a Bonus Skills soon :)
Why wouldn't they be related, they are all supernatural somehow? Maybe you're just thinking of internet trolls? Long before the internet existed, trolls were important in our folklore and mythology.
We tried to pick the ones that felt most central to begin with. Trolls and magicians seemed more common than fairies and elves.
We would really like to make a bonus skill (we can't make them yet, but when Duo gives us the tools) about the creatures in the old Swedish folklore and mythology, like Näcken, Skogsrået, vättar and other such things that are specific to our cultural history.
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That was four years ago! Duolingo still hasn't permitted the Swedish team to make bonus skills?
Swedish has words with "magi", some are (almost) synomyms to words with troll. I assume the troll-words are related, but the etymology of troll is uncertain, and older than magi (in Swedish).
Trollkarl<sub>magiker=magician Trolldom=magi=magic(noun) (Trolsk)</sub>magisk=magic(adj)
They are pronounced with a hard g.
Interesting. In English it's The philosopher's stone, not The Philosophers' stone, if you know what I mean.