Scanian Proverbs

* Au all kogesmad e kaffegøgen den bäste.
o 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.
o Translation: "It's too late to rise early when you wake eleven o'clock."

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

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

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

* Ed å ta bug fårr i morron kommer rakkaren å tar skinged.
o 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.
o Translation: "You shouldn't eat valium before going out."

* Etter maden må en hälla si' och blunga litta i skumme.
o 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!
o Translation: "Tasty food, plenty of food, food in the right time - and peace at mealtimes!"
o Notes: Considered to be the national motto of scanians

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

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

* Ja kåmmår ijän, sa kärringen såm fåsstna i møllevingen.
o 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.
o Translation: "The food is half the provisions, the rest is herring and potatoes."

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

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