# Scandanavians -- Help Please!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandanavians-help-please/176307
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 20, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandanavians-help-please/176307 "2003-05-20T05:33:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandanavians-help-please/176307/1 "2003-05-20T05:33:45Z")
I believe this is written in Danish and may have something to do with a boat. Could someone translate it for me please?
MEGIN jollerne i Danmark September 1999
samt de nordiske lande og Tyskland
Liste over ejere – send gerne rettelser til listen til: pwerge@image.dk
Liste over StorMegin både - (klik her) Lille Megin 15"
Liste over ejere:
(And then follows a list of names and addresses.)
Mange tak!
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandanavians-help-please/176307/2 "2003-05-20T06:09:53Z")
While waiting for an actual speaker of Danish, I ran this past [http://intertran.tranexp.com/?#neurotrananchor](http://intertran.tranexp.com/?#neurotrananchor) (scroll to the bottom and select Danish as source) and got
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> MEGIN jollerne to Denmark September 1999 and they Scandinavian the land and Germany List of holders – route gladly corrections to the catalog to : pwerge@image.dk List of Bust bde ( clicking here ) Little Megin 15" List of holders :
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandanavians-help-please/176307/3 "2003-05-20T06:32:40Z")
\*_tomndebb_, LOL!! That’s probably what the letters that I used to compose to Danish friends sounded like to their ears.
I am going t bookmark the translator, but I still hope for a little more explanation.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@hildea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hildea)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandanavians-help-please/176307/4 "2003-05-20T06:33:37Z")
Yep, it’s Danish.
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MEGIN boats in Denmark September 1999
as well as in the Nordic countries and Germany
List of owners - please send corrections to the list to:
pwerge@image.dk
List of BigMegin boats - (click here) Small Megin 15’’
List of owners:
…
Thanks a lot!
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I’m not sure exactly what kind of boat a “jolle” is in Danish. In Norwegian it would be either a small sailboat (as in can be sailed by one or a few people) or a small “companion” boat for a bigger boat (ie. lifeboat kind of thing). In this context, I’d guess it’s a sailboat.
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### Author:  [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandanavians-help-please/176307/5 "2003-05-20T16:42:02Z")
**hildea** is absolutely right, “jolle” in this context means a small sailboat - I think (but I know damn little of sailing) that the English word “dinghy” is used to describe this sort of vessel.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandanavians-help-please/176307/6 "2003-05-20T16:54:48Z")
**hildea** , thanks so much for your help!
I travelled by train once beside the Oslo Fjord to Oslo. So beautiful! Next time I want to take the train from Oslo to Bergen.
Anyway, welcome to SDMB! Have fun!
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### Author:  [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scandanavians-help-please/176307/7 "2003-05-21T10:39:39Z")
I found some [pictures](http://www.megin.no/Bildeserie_ToMegin.html) if you want to know what they look like. The site is in Norwegian, but I don’t think you will have any problems finding the next (neste) picture in the series.