Swedish Translations of "Mysterious Island" (Adventure Time Discussion)
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- Опубліковано 16 бер 2017
- In the Islands miniseries, the episode "Mysterious Island" featured the character Alva who spoke in Swedish. In this video, I will provide translations for her dialogue and the film she showed Finn, and discuss my thoughts (along with doing some analysis and speculation).
Big thanks to Swedi Candy who provided me with translations and notes on them, thus making this video possible.
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/ uncivilizedelk - Фільми й анімація
"I thought it would look better" *closes notebook* lolll
Me every time I try to draw something
Hahahaha!
Hi Swedi!
Same lmao
In my case it is 4/10 times I colour something by using traditional means.
LOL OH MY GOSH THAT IS SO RELATEABLE
I JUST saw this episode. And as a Swede, I was shocked to hear my own language. And outrageously happy for some reason. SO COOL!
DoktorVinter2018 as a Swede I had the exact same emotions
I. Am. Ironman
@@thedarkvortexx4378 me toooooooo!
straight up same
Same here
It was Swedish because the only thing left to read was an Ikea catalog :(
mundotaku we meet again car replica guy
Oh my gosh
Not even me as a swede understand thoes ikea namnes. Damn u Ikea.
Well, I better learn some Swedish then.
Haha not funny
To all the Swedes that are fascinated with hearing their language when she talked, that’s how I feel every time Lady says something
sweet.
How about that cabbage patch jokes?
Same :D
In the swedish version the lady speaks finnish! (I am Swedish myself)
Agnes Mchall jaså..
But what does she speak in the Finnish version
@@agronsso3825 That's a good question since finnish people usually know both swedish and finnish. Which means neither of them are probable.
@@Jbertius maybe like danish, it's weird even for a nordic language
This guy I think it’s Norwegian: sounds similar to Swedish, different to Danish and uses the word “ikke”
I just absolutely love that whenever this show has characters we're not supposed to understand, they don't have them speak gibberish, they have them speak a real language and prompt the viewing audience to learn enough about the language to find out what the character said. There's no real logical reason why Lady Rainicorn speaks Korean, but it's a brilliant choice all the same. Such a subtle interesting way to introduce a little bit of real world diversity to the cartoon.
Unlike 4Kids.
Totally!! I love what you're saying here. North Americans really do need to get pushed out of their xenophobic bubbles
It makes foreign languages seem exciting and mysterious, as well as a way to connect with characters they already like, I suppose.
@@anagonzalez8972 Ah, good ol' finger guns
@@Selkie7 not speaking other languages isnt xenophobic... the fact you’d say that about an entire nation is disgusting
when i first heard this i was blown away thinking the audio messed up i am swedish so i understood everything
Me too
I like the use of "my country", it such a human way of thinking of a landmass, unlike how Finn and the others just think of Ooo as this big shared place with little kingdoms.
Finn never experienced "country" term
Finn lived his entire life in an apocalyptic continent Ooo which was divided and shared by different Kingdoms
Country= Is a modern term for a property
Kingdom= Is an anchor term for a property
The mushroom war had started in 2010
When Alva looks disappointed at the drawing Finn made, maybe it wasn't because of his drawing skills. Rather the fact that she asked him to draw her, and it looked bad, (and she probably thought Finn drew the Jake picture) Making her think her appearance was bad.
Or maybe I'm wrong. Oh well.
Person302 Person302, your thinking deeply, which is not a problem. I believe the Adventure Time creators wanted people to think more because the context of the show can have double or triple meanings.
Person302
I thought that as well
She probably realized she looks older than she thought.
Person302 you're wrong. The words used is targeted to the drawing. Cause if not she would say "jag" istället för "det". But you can still think what you think. I have no control of that.
+Person302
I went back to the minute in which we can see "Jake's picture" and now I can see what you mean.
Also on the last island where Finn finds his mum, the shop signs are written in Swedish. So maybe the last humans "evolved" from Swedes?
After all, it's a multicultural country nowadays so names like Kim or Kulap are not that uncommon. Also it would make sense for them to speak both Swedish (as some kind of traditional language) and English since almost every Swede speaks (pretty well) English.
No remember Tom that guy who escaped in the boat with groupe of humans in min and marty ep we can see a statue of him.
If not 'evolved', Swedes might have been one of the dominant cultures after that mushroom war. History can be pretty erratic when it comes to which cultures end up on top of the pile at any given time.
Well, those swedish groupe were obviously sent to study the area or to colonize the area after the war and they died for many reasons.
That actually makes sense too considering historically the Scandinavian countries have had less involvement in major world conflicts.
Well Minerva spoke in an Irish accent and some of the names sounds like from a different nation so that might mean the settlers on the island originated from the continent of Europe
P.S please correct me if i am wrong
Yay! I've been waiting for this for so long :D Love the video!
Also! The toy store that Frida works at says "Leksaker" which is Swedish for Toys! :D
Bra jobbat, du gör ditt land stolt X D
nä men hallå där!
Swedi Candy thanks for your help. i love his translations to these and other episodes
Thank you for your translation :)
Ville bara säga att det var ett bra jobb med både översättningen och föklaringen. ;P
the swedish word for dog kinda sounds like hound
Daniela Haramoto They have the same root.
Daniela Haramoto Here in sweden we don't have a specific word for hound, though, hund means both dog and hound
HOONDEN
and the estonian word for "wolf." that's what it reminded me of.
It really reminds me of the german word "Hund", which translates to dog as well
Alva's disappointed face + sigh in regards to Finn's drawing skills was the best thing ever lol 😆
Well if PB knows German makes sense other languages would survive.
Who's PB? Sorry, haven't caught up yet.
@@1nt9rn9t-dudewillheim2 Princess Bubblegum
Lady Unicorn speaks korean
@@1nt9rn9t-dudewillheim2 pb is in the first episode
@@maggierommel8955
replying to a 3 year old comment are we?
The Swedish translation was on point! I'm Swedish by the way
Elias Bremer jag också
Robin Bztard Bonjour
Sam Sammy hola que tal¿
你会说普通话吗？ (・ω・)ノ
Eita porra
It actually makes me happy that Swedish is used in shows (me myself I'm also Swedish and friends with Swedi Candy)
my favorite game was made by a swedish team
Am I the only one who did not realise that Alva was a human until Finn said it?
She's old and sometimes when people get old they can look WEIRD, like weird wrinkled mice or living trees. It's probably why so much imagery of witches are of older women.
Pat ManDX oh wow that's not rude at all
ΝΙΚΟΣ ΝΙΚΟΣ there are many mutants that look like humans in Ooo so you're probably not alone
she looks Dwarvish but then I realized shes just an old lady
we've been conditioned so hard into thinking most characters in the show (outside of finn of course) is non-human that when a actual human shows up we're confused.
vilket jävla liv, eh?
Yoo I rewatched some old episodes of AT and I notice the show really drilling the concept of the creation of life and the repercussions and gravity that comes with that; with the life giving magi and P Bubs, i think you'd be on point with an analysis on that bizz lol
thank you and swedi candy so much for this video! sure does add a lot of layers and insight on that episode, and on alva herself, who was one of my favorite characters in the islands miniseries. also very cute knowing that the word at the end of the film can also be used for "butt", which as you said, is so on par with adventure time humor haha :)
:3
I wonder what language she speaks in the Swedish dub
Ethan Fleming not english as 90% of swedes can talk eng
Finnish i think
sansy vlogs 90% can’t speak English properly only a few simple words, I’m from there my dudes
She speaks Norwegian
@@robberrtferr Ayy, I can speak Norwegian! :D
She speaks finnish in the swedish dub
Swedish meatballs are delicious.
Why is pewdiepie hiding them from us get his pants
Thea Nilsen buts it's not there it's probably at a bar getting wasted I feel so ashamed to have a mind like that my heart is going to college why cant my mind be more like it I dont like to pick favorite organs but it's obvious my mind needs to get its shit together
ok
IKEA!
No kidding
Swedish and Adventure Time are two of my favorite things, so when Alva was introduced I was overjoyed.
Also, Uncivilized Elk, I love your videos, you have very interesting perspectives on Adventure Time and Steven Universe and I really enjoy viewing them.
Damn wish I still watched AT, this ep would've caught me off guard because I'm swedish.
Maybe he feels he's too far behind and can't catch up anymore because he dropped it some time ago.
The translations are fine, just off at one point.
"En hund" is "a dog", not "the dog"
"Hunden" however, means "the dog"
But if you only say "Hund" it means "Dog"
ShutUpMorrison but that's what it showed in the subtitles
I like how you highlight how this is a Swedish speaking character written for an American English speaking primary audience. (which helps explain some word choices) Nice to know she is a more in-depth Swedish character in an American show than the Swedish Chief 😊.
When I first watched this episode I thought it said "Anden" in the end, witch is Swedish for Duck. It took a while for me to understand that it said "Änden".
But it's a really weird word to put at the end of a film and would never be used in Swedish movies.
Ändan is Swedish for but. But it's more like old Swedish. Like if you would say "the behind" instead of but. The more common name for it is "rumpa"
"Ändan" is the same as "slutet", meaning "the end". It can mean butt.
I do agree "slut" would have been a better word though
ARSCHLE heter det, inte rumpa.
As a giant fan of this show I am extremely happy to have found this video. I've watched Adventure Time over & over because not only do I just love cartoons like this but I started watching it again after I had my son. I hope one day he'll be able to watch it again as teen/adult like me & truly appreciate it like I do & if he's anything like me (thankfully it's looking like he is more & more as time passes) he definitely will ^.^ Thanks for making this available Uncivilized Elk!
Thank you so much for making this video, man.
So Ooo is actually post-apocalyptic Sweden...
Man, what is up with me. I haven't seen AT in MONTHS... All these characters... Stories... 😔
But love the video all the same dude, keep it up! 👍😄
AdventureTimeFan94 Probably, but I barely see it in my spare time, I wish though...
And Netflix is being an ass right now... 😑
Best show on TV! It just keeps getting better and better.
Jordan DeHart Oh, that I know! 😘
I want to watch it but I don’t know where to start from. Someone help ?
quality video as usual!! You're the best youtuber when it comes to cartoon stuff
Being swedish and watching this was so hilarious, especially when I watched it with some friends and they kept calling it japanese
Sounds nothing like japaner, you got some stupid ass friends
I could see Finnish being confused for Japanese, but Swedish? really?
@@TindraSan i happens a lot
it's sad for me to think that Alva's dead after a thousand years, when Adventure Time ended
Whaaat!! You have a Patreon account now!? I'll have to go support!
Yeah I made a video about it and everything! And thanks so much for the support!
@@uncivilizedelk could you please do a video on fionna and cake as to whether or not their real. I ask because even though we the audience are introduced to them as the Ice King's in-universe fanfiction/headcannon he says that the ideas are beamed into his head at night while he sleeps. Also later on either that same episode or a few episodes later we're shown a building with a bunch of V.H.S. tapes labeled fionna and cake.
Bro you’re vids are awesome!!!!!
great short man! keep it ip!!
It "sounds so similar to English" because, contrary to what most Americans believe, English is derived from German, like Swiss and Dutch et al.
(English is NOT a Romance Language. It's German that's trying to play by Romance Language rules.)
FaeQueenCory do to both Roman and Anglo-Saxon origins,English has words that trace to both roots,but it is more Germanic
Anglo-Saxon is from German.
And any Roman (Latin) derived words are all borrowed from their French derivatives from German into English today.
Strictly speaking, English is derived not from German, but Germanic - an ancestor of some modern languages like English and German itself.
And I'm not convinced about Latin words coming to English via German. They more likely were introduced by Normans in the XI century.
So that's why "shit" and "sheitza" sound so similar.
It's NOT derived from German. It is Saxophonic, which is GERMANIC, not German. There is a difference.
I thought 'enhund!'
Meant like
'No, I told you already!'
"have you seen jake?"
*shakes head*
"He looks like this"
"enhund!"
Hey there, love all the videos on adventure time, I have to say that I have a hard time wraping my head around how you can so completely understand an episode its nuts to me. I had a request if you dont mind, I have an intrest in themes of duality and the episode: "The Mountain" seemed to be about duality, I'd love to see a review if it's not to much trouble as sometimes I have difficulties deciphering the meaning behind adventure time and clearly your much better at it.
im norwegian so i understood a lot of what she said. i was actuly suprised to see someone in Adventure time speak swedish, but it was very cool. also i really liked this video
in the Swedish translation. Alva is speaking finish!
I KNEW IT!
Did you make a similar video about lady Rainicorn's Korean quotes translated? And if so, can you link it?
Thanks Uncivilized Elf and Swedi Candy
as a danish person this episode was so fun to watch! danish and swedish sound almost the same (with some words being entirely different though) so i could understand a lot but not all of it, so seeing the subtitles gave me that last bit!
Lol I'm so swedish so its quite fun to see swedish characters in AT xD and änden can mean for example "änden på repet" wich means "end of the rope" but it also means butt!
Wait a minute! If I watch the movie in swedish will she speak english? MIND BLOOOWWN!
Nice video. It's been awhilesince your last AT video.
New miniseries announced straight off the heels of Islands airing this month
*the entire AT fandom looks to UncivilizedElk*
5:06 this reminds me of how I first reacted to reading some of the pictures of the Moomins comics (i got interested in Moomins this year) and getting really confused when I saw pictures of the characters holding a sign that said “slut” until I read the comments saying it meant “end”, so as I watched this video, I was wondering how Adventure Time would dodge the confusion
I believe Alva may have been the last generation of a Swedish society that survived after the dropping of the giant bomb. Something led her and a group of others to leave the mainland in search of new land. Their different culturally identifiable names may indicate that they are not all from the same society. There must have been something that made members of distinctly different societies that had survived , and likely separated ones as well, band together and migrate so far. Alva having a damage report also may hint that there was someone that she and the others answered to and were trying to relay information to. She may at one point planed on sending video recordings of their journey to the mainland. Perhaps there was at one time some type of government or exploratory institution that had banded them together for exploration. Let me know what you think.
Elk: property..... I don't care about that one.
Me: well that's a pretty commie thing to say
do you even know what communism is
I believe that his comment was just a joke.
I really loved them having Alva in the episode cos I'm Swedsih so I could understand everything and that was really cool. But I remember thinking about those who don't undrstand what she says, it's not that hard to understand what she said, given the context that we got. But the translations were on point and yeah, good video👍
I've been learning Swedish for the past 1 1/2 years and those scenes were the only times my duolingo lessons were really worth it.
I liked to imagine that all the settlers would speak their native languages (to help preserve their cultures but picked up other languages from others so that they could still understand each otherI got this idea from how alva seems to understand what finn and jake say even though she does not speak English her selfor it could be that alva was just beginning to learn to speak english when the island became over taken by nature and just decided to stop trying to learn it because their was no one to talk to anyway
Its been hundreds of years sense the bombs fell right? so obviously land masses change over time. So all Im getting from this mini episode is that they are on Sweden, and are traveling to either the north pole or iceland
CaptainNightvale like, 990-1000, I think. Nonetheless, the continents in the year 900 A.D. Were pretty much in the same place. That is, unless so many bombs were dropped that it somehow deformed whole continents.
the landforms are different because there was a tidal wave, talked about in Marcys super secret scrapbook. there are references to LA and San Francisco on signs in ruins leading you to think that Ooo was California and since the islands dont seam that far from Ooo they are probably not in the Netherlands.
We only got to see Alva for a short amount of time, but she's one of my favorite characters by far.
Wow this was 2 years ago? I just finished the show today by binge watching it after not watching it for 7 years btw I cried at the end
"Slut film"
😂😂😂😂😂
i can't stop laughing after reading that.
I am from sweden, I have not seen the swedish dub of this episode, so I have no idea what thay changed her language too. dos anyone out there know?
Also to regard to "the end" be glad she never sad the swedish for cubby-hole, it is written fack but is pronounced Fuck. I am not kidding.
This makes me very happy!!!
"det var då en märklig en" can be used for strange situations as well.
finn is tied up when he meets her and thats probably what she is refering to with that line.
didnt think i would hear swedish in an american cartoon.
So this is destroyed Scandinavia ?
Well, Ooo have vikings running around.
En hund = a hound.
André Kuster-Cid
No, hund=dog and hound, there is no specific swedish word for hound
I was calling you all´s attention that there is another word for dog in English, "hound", which is etymologically related to the swedish word.
Milton Gam Hound = dog
Nej
did this get in my recommended just because i’m swedish, and that i was talking abt adventure time with my dad earlier today? ofc it did but i’m glad it did
I think the meaning of "edge" can be probably applied to a larger scale of Adventure Time ending. The edge, also known as the end of the island for Adventure Time, is near for Adventure Time, as the last season has already been recorded (according to John Di Maggio's tweet, "And then there were none"), and the Adventure Time crew knew that AT is ending in 2018; which will be here before we know it.
"This colonization attempt was a butt" lol
About this. I could actually understand alot of this even without knowing Swedish. I speak German. And the two languages are very close
Ryanplays I wouldn’t say that close.. I can’t read nor understand any spoken german at all 0.0 and I’m 100% Swedish.
@@abookishfable8268 they are tho, many words are extremely similar
Now I'm going to watch Islands all over again
Whoa whoa I missed alot of adventure time episodes
Good thing we have UA-cam
this is almost german, you would know what I mean when you knew german
She Spoke Swedish? I thought she speaks Dutch... Lol... I'm quarter Dutch though, I still learning Dutch btw
Aaron Penyami nope it's solid swedish (is a swede) I know no dutch xD and I think i reconise the voice actor! she sounds sweet ^_^
Lufia4 oh....
For me who live in sweden, its kinda fun to hear somone "Translate" this person :)
Awesome. Always wondered what she was actually saying
Hur många här är svensk 🙋
How many here are swedish 🙋
Me
Emilia Fahlander ja
Emilia Fahlander The only Swede I know are Pewdiepie and Maher Zain
Aadam Elmey but there are so many more like Alicia Vikander, Alexander Skarsgård, Zara Larsson and many many more
Jag
Gilla kommentaren om du kan prata svenska!☺
this was the coolest youtube adventure time video i've ever seen haha
really cool. nice to know what she said.
The settlers being swedish makes a lot of sense considering Fin has blond hair.
Hej, någon annan svensk?
Robin Bztard Jag 🙋
Ja kanske det ;)
En hund..?
People probably won't see this cus this video was uploaded 2017 but I met Hannah K who works as a storyboard artist at adventure time and as we know she did the marceline and PB scene.
We talked about the Swedish in the episode and it wasnt supposed to be swedish i think they had a couple of languages to choose from but then ended up with Swedish since they knew that Hannah could find someone to do the voice acting! If I remember it correctly I think it might have been Hannah's grandma or her friends grandma who did the voice acting :^)
I think that there was an initial island group, two bread Tom and company, and eventually, a few other groups found the island too. With mo Co also finding them
I literally had no clue while watching this that she was speaking Swedish the first time but then I started learning Swedish then happened to watch the episode again and starting understanding some things she said and then did a lil research lol I live under a rock
I think Alva's group was Founders Island's actual attempt at expanding beyond the island, because in Hide And Seek, Dr. Gross mentions that they tried expanding beyond the island, but they all died. It's possible this wasn't just a lie to keep Susan's thoughts in check, but also true to their knowledge. I'd guess after everyone else on the team died either they just left her there to leave the project to history, or they genuinely thought she was dead too. Then they just decided to use it as another reason not to leave the island. There was also the other island with all the VR players, but one could call that a failed attempt at civilization too. There was one VR guy on Founders Island, but there he is the exception, not the rule.
I'm so happy this video was made, up until this point I thought the creators actually made a language and used it here 😅
I felt of tinge of sadness when I saw her reaction to Finn's drawing of her, even though it didn't seem to bother her that much.
Thanks Swedi Candy!
I noticed Finn drew Kilroy was Here on the same page as his attempt at drawing Alba. This is the second time I've seen Kilroy in the show, the first time being in the Peppermint Butler episode of Distant Lands. I wonder if this is a common thing in the show.
I like how fin draws a little kilmore from ww2 on his portrait this show is really detailed
Oh I just realized you could guess she met by the word for dpg sounding like a slightly different pronunciation of hound
Was kinda hoping that there was a video of what language she would speak in other dubs
there was a Swedish fish ad before this video for me.
I was really shocked when i first saw this. i'm not swedish, i can't speak or write swedish, but i understood every single word, and it made me really happy to know that i didn't have to google the translations. haha.
Hey Uncivilized Elk, I sent you a PM about an Adventure Time theory I had. I'm wondering what you think of it?
Oh wow! The translation gives her a lot of character. What a sweet little lady
This episode was so funny to me since I'm a native Swedish speaker
Wonder if Hierophant has any connections to the booted animals. I remember him wearing boots also.
I love how she’s like I thought it would have been better
not even kidding there was a Swedish fish ad on this video
So cool!
I'm Dutch myself and Swedish has quite a lot of similar words, so it was fun I could understand some of it without translations!
My proudest moment from learning Swedish is hearing Alva and knowing what she's saying