Scanian proverbs

This is a list of Scanian proverbs and sayings.

• Au all kogesmad e kaffegøgen den bäste.
  • Translation: "Out of all cookery, the coffee laced with schnapps is the best."

• De e får sent å stia upp tidit når en vagnar klockan elva.
  • Translation: "It's to late to rise early when you wake eleven o'clock."

• De vøre ajn grannår tøs åm hoded va au na.
  • Translation: "She would be a nice girl if she didn't have her head."

• Den medicin som passar skräddarn, kan skomágarn dø utav.
  • Translation: "The medicine that cures the tailor can kill the shoemaker."

• Dø man e svår å väcka.
  • Translation: "Dead man is hard to wake."

• Ed å ta bug fårr i morron kommer rakkaren å tar skinged.
  • Translation: "Eat and take belly, because tomorrow the assistant of the executioner will come to take the skin."

• En ska ente eda valium innan en går ud.
  • Translation: "You shouldn't eat valium before going out."

• Etter maden må en hälla si' och blunga litta i skumme.
  • Translation: "After the meal, one has to be still and shut the eyes for a while in the gloom."

• Go mad, møed mad, mad i rättan ti - å så madaro!
  • Translation: "Tasty food, plenty of food, food in the right time - and peace at mealtimes!"
  • Notes: Considered to be the national motto of scanians

• Gåsen e får liden får två men får stor får inn.
  • Translation: "The goose is too small for two but to big for one."

• Inn skåning e barra svensk unnor Hockey-VM.
  • Translation: "A scanian is only swedish during the icehockey world championships."

• Ja kåmmår ijän, sa kärringen såm fåsstna i møllevingen.
  • Translation: "I'll come again, said the woman who got caught in wing of the windmill."

• Maden e halva fødan, resten e sill å päror.
  • Translation: "The food is half the provisions, the rest is herring and potatoes."

• Smens märr o skomagarens glytta, de går alltid barfytta.
  • Translation: "The mare of the smith and the children of the shoemaker, allways goes barefooted."

• Ung kan sporja längjer än gammal ha varred!
  • Translation: "A youngster can ask further than an aged has been."