Norwegian(?). Dutch(?) Dopers: Translation help, please (Coldfire? Anyone?)

[Fenris]

At least I think it’s Norwegian. Um…it’s definitly from that area.

I collect musicals, and I just got my hands on one, but I have no idea what it’s about or what the title means, or…well…anything else, really. There’s what seems like a four paragraph synopsis on the back, and I was wondering if I could get a translation, since there doesn’t seem to be a Norwegian->English translation engine.

Note, I can’t find the ascii code for the “o” with the “/” through it symbol, so I’m using 0 to represent it. This is printed in an annoying script font, and there’s a character that looks like a ue, but I’m assuming it’s an æ. It’s also possible that I’m conflating the occasional F and L (unless it’s the olde english F looking character that means “s”), so I apologize for what may be an awful transcription. It’s as accurate as I could get.

The name of the musical (caps, theirs): Princessens utvalgte
The synopsis(?):

Det er landesorg på Sagablått, et luftslott i Romerike. Avd0de kong Henrik har i sitt testamente befalt at hans enste arving, den bortskjemte princesse Henriette, ikke skal krones tif dronning f0r hun er gift. Med linten skrift står det at hun må gufte seg f0r tiden renner ut, og med enda mindre skrift står det at hennes ektemann ikke må være en prins.

Væpner Syver sender gang på gang hesten Trave ut etter nye kandidater, og de eventyrligste hefter dukker opp som friere på Sagablått; en staut ridder. en snakkesalig statistiker, en sjarmerende rundbrenner, en steinrik forettningsmam, en melodramaatisk skuespiffer og en sætfrles myk mann. Hvennn av dem kan innfri testamentets krav og vinne prinsessen og lele kongeriket?

Hoffmarsklk M0rk fors0ker å holde skansene men Romerikes forvvirrede hæ og hoff viser seg å vare tif liten nytte, Samtidig driver kammerpike Krjnoline sitt renkespill, og Sagablått står fare for å bli underlagt selveste Soria Moria.

Henriette har ingen tid å miste, for slottes store timeglass renner jevnt og truff, og finner hun ingen passende gemal f0r tinden ut, må hun gifte seg med hoffmarskalk MOrk. Det er ikke godt å si hvem av dem som gruer seg meste hvis såskulle skje…

Help. Anyone?

Fenris

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Romerike is a town in Norway. I think. I’ve just been to visit the Romerike Taxi Service and the Romerike Judo Club.

http://www.nrtaxi.no/
http://hjem.sol.no/rjudo/

So I guess we’re looking at Norwegian, unless it’s a Swedish or Danish musical set in Norway.

[bibliophage]

I’ll take a stab at it, but there are a lot of words here I don’t know. flodnak would be in a better position to answer this one. Below is my take on it, not a literal translation.

The Princess’s Choice King Henrik, who lived in a castle in Romerike, has died and left everything to his daughter Henrietta, on the condition that she marry before a time limit runs out. According to the terms of the will, her new husband must not be a prince. All sorts of men start streaming in with marriage proposals: a gallant knight, a melodramatic playwright, a statistician, etc. While she’s making her decision of which one to marry, the men are put to work guarding the castle walls (?). A chambermaid hatches some kind of scheme (?). Princess Henrietta doesn’t know how to make the decision, and time is running out.

[Floater]

I’ll take a stab at it (although I’m Swedish and not Norwegian) (I also took the liberty to correct a couple of typos in the original Norwegian)

Det er landesorg på Sagablått, et luftslott i Romerike.

There’s a national mourning at Sagablått (Fairy tale Blue), an airy (?) palace in Romerrike

Avdøde kong Henrik har i sitt testamente befalt at hans enste arving, den bortskjemte princesse Henriette, ikke skal krones tif dronning før hun er gift.

The dead king Henrik has stated in his will that his sole heir, the spoilt princess Henriette, will not be crowned queen before she is married.

Med liten skrift står det at hun må gifte seg før tiden renner ut, og med enda mindre skrift står det at hennes ektemann ikke må være en prins.

In small print it is written that she has to marry before the time runs out, and in ever smaller print that her husband must not be a prince.

Væpner Syver sender gang på gang hesten Trave ut etter nye kandidater, og de eventyrligste hefter dukker opp som friere på Sagablått; en staut ridder. en snakkesalig statistiker, en sjarmerende rundbrenner, en steinrik forettningsmam, en melodramaatisk skuespiller og en sætfrles myk mann. Hvem av dem kan innfri testamentets krav og vinne prinsessen og hele kongeriket?

Time after another the knave (?) Syver sends the horse Trave out for new candidates, and the most adventurous (?) come as suitors to Sagoblått; a bold knight, a talaktive statistician, a charming (…), a wealthy businessman, a melodramatic actor and a very (?) soft man. Who of them will fulfill the demands in the will and win the princess and the whole kingdom.

Hoffmarskalk Mørk forsøker å holde skansene men Romerikes forvirrede hæ og hoff viser seg å vare til liten nytte, Samtidig driver kammerpike Krinoline sitt renkespill, og Sagablått står fare for å bli underlagt selveste Soria Moria.

The court marshal Mørk tries to hold the fort, but the confused court is of little help. In the meantime the chambermaid Krinoline is trying out her cunning plan (a rather free translation, somewhat influenced by Baldrick), and Sagoblått is running the risk of being overtaken by Soria Moria itself.

Henriette har ingen tid å miste, for slottes store timeglass renner jevnt og truff, og finner hun ingen passende gemal før tinden ut, må hun gifte seg med hoffmarskalk Mørk. Det er ikke godt å si hvem av dem som gruer seg meste hvis så skulle skje…

Henrietta has no time to lose, for the big hourglass in the palace is running out in a steady pace, and if she doesn’t find a suitable husband before the time is out she has to marry court marshal Mørk, and it is not easy to say who fears the most that that would happen.