Dagvaktin upphafsatriði - í Svíþjóð

The starting scene from a popular Icelandic TV-show; Dagvaktin (The Day shift).
Georg, a communist which has 5 university degrees, finds himself in Skåne, Sweden - and is having some social related problems with the people he lives with.

Georg is played by Jón Gnarr, which since 2010 is the mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland.

Wikipedia: "Dagvaktin (English: The Day Shift) is a sequel to the Icelandic television series Næturvaktin. It is the second of the three series in the trilogy. The three main characters from Næturvaktin, Georg Bjarnfreðarson (Jón Gnarr), Ólafur Ragnar (Pétur Jóhann Sigfússon) and Daníel (Jörundur Ragnarsson), all return to work at a hotel in the sparsely populated Westfjords.
It was first broadcast on Stöð 2 on 21 September 2008, and was subsequently released on DVD."

©Saga Film 2008

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Dagvaktin
• Jón
• Gnarr
• Skåne

[635mikeyb]

So the character who is being interviewed in this clip...i think his name is bjarn (the idiot who ran the petrol station in the night shift)...when he is speaking swedish...does he have an icelandic accent?..and how does swedish sound when spoken by somebody from iceland?

And by the way Gunnigis thankyou for your answers..they are very informative...:-)

[Gunnigis]

@635mikeyb His name is Georg Bjarnfreðarson (so he's the son of Bjarnfreður, his mother, which is rather unusual since most Icelanders have their fathers names, but since his father is unknown, he uses his mothers (and is pretty proud of that). See "Icelandic Names" on Wikipedia ).

[Gunnigis]

All of the actors in this scene are Icelanders, which either do live or have lived in Sweden (including Jón Gnarr (Georg), which is now the mayor of Reykjavík). Most of them sound like the natives, but if you ask a Swede, he would claim that some of them are from Finland, at first...

[635mikeyb]

silly question....can icelanders and swedes understand each other?

are the 2 languages similar enough?

[Gunnigis]

@635mikeyb Not a silly question at all. The answer is no, but it's relatively easy for an Icelander to learn Swedish and vice versa.

Thousand years ago, it is said that everyone spoke the same language, called "Old Norse". Check for it on Wikipedia. Look for "Scandinavian languages" as well.

Both Icelandic and Swedish derive from Old Norse, but Icelandic is pretty much the same as Old Norse. So in a way you can say that Swedish derives from Icelandic. :-)

[Gunnigis]

And by "everyone", I meant everyone in Scandinavia (Finland does not count).

[bjorinn]

It sounds like many of them are Icelanders.. except a few.

[Fransinn3]

1:01 NO U!!

lol

[Gunnigis]

@635mikeyb Yes, it's Swedish. :-)

[635mikeyb]

what language are they speaking...swedish?

i assume the subtitles are icelandic...