Hello darling! I was so happy to see you reblog the not from the US asks - I was hoping you would! Can I have numbers 4,11,13 and 18 please? I know it's a lot but how am I expected to pick between all those lovely questions?
Hi love! Thanks for the ask! I was about to ask you some questions as well and then the stupid tumblr app crashed and then I promptly forgot. I’ll correct that asap, after I’ve answered your questions:
4. favourite dish specific for your country?
I sadly don’t eat a lot of dishes that are specific to Sweden, most of them are very meat heavy. But I love kroppkakor (literally means “body cakes”), a kind of dumplings where the dough is made of mashed potatoes, egg and flour, and they’re filled with fried pork with onions and black pepper. When you eat them you slice them up in halves and pour melted butter on them, and they’re served with lingonberry jam. My parents make them once a year and they’re delicious.
11. favourite native writer/poet?
Oooh that is such a tough question because I rarely read any books now, but I love Sara Bergmark Elfgren who co wrote the series Cirkeln (the Circle) and also that favourite novel I told you about the other day that almost made me fangirl like mad when I was a random girl on the street carrying it. Sara has this wonderful way of creating tension and subtext and when I read “Norra Latin” I couldn’t stop reading it, but at the same time I was afraid of continuing because the suspense was almost killing me.(John Ajvide Lindqvist gets an honorary mention for his ability to portray real life, but I’m not as fond when he gets into gore.)
13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that may seem strange to outsiders?
Um, we’ve all heard about the hopping frogs on midsummer, right? No? Well here’s a link to Alexander Skarsgård showing Jimmy Fallon how it’s done, but you also have to imagine that we do it around a gigantic phallus stuck in the ground. I have no idea why the leaping frogs, but it’s tradition!
18. do you speak with a dialect of your native language?
I don’t think I do. I live in our capital city and older people who grew up here (my grandmother for example) have a very specific way of pronouncing words and that’s the dialect the rest of the country think we speak. But with a lot of people moving in here from all over the country and the so called “rikssvenskan” being what is spoken on TV and radio, most younger people here don’t really have a dialect now. Which is sad I think, I think it adds a little personality to have a dialect.
These were fun questions @etalice thanks so much!
