# Translation help with Swedish, Norwegian or Danish?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-help-with-swedish-norwegian-or-danish/628037
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 12, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-help-with-swedish-norwegian-or-danish/628037 "2012-07-12T18:34:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-help-with-swedish-norwegian-or-danish/628037/1 "2012-07-12T18:34:49Z")
I’ll be traveling in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark this summer. I’m hoping to find some museums that might have small Elizabethan dessert trenchers (also called roundels), like this ones at these museums:
[British Museum](http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=3297511&partid=1&searchText=1896%2c0807.8.a&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx¤tPage=1)
[Metropolitan Museum of Art](http://metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/120025868?rpp=20&pg=1&ft=trencher&pos=16)
[St Albans collection](http://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/content/view/full/15946)
Can anybody tell me what the Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish words for these little plates are?
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### Author:  [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-help-with-swedish-norwegian-or-danish/628037/2 "2012-07-12T18:45:22Z")
Norwegian = Runddans
Danish = Rondels
Swedish = Rundlarna
Google Translate ™ is your friend. 🙂
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-help-with-swedish-norwegian-or-danish/628037/3 "2012-07-12T19:00:20Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#):
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> Google Translate ™ is your friend. 🙂
I’m sure you meant that kindly, dolphinboy, but if you run those words through google images you’ll see the results are only faintly resembling the objects in the links I provided.
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### Author:  [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-help-with-swedish-norwegian-or-danish/628037/4 "2012-07-12T19:16:30Z")
I think assiett/asjett is the word you’re looking for. [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assiett](http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assiett)
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-help-with-swedish-norwegian-or-danish/628037/5 "2012-07-12T19:43:18Z")
Thanks Telperion! Searching for assiett renässans and assiett gamla gets me a little closer to what I’m looking for.
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### Author:  [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-help-with-swedish-norwegian-or-danish/628037/6 "2012-07-13T09:55:18Z")
It could be _assiett_, which is a small plate placed beside the main plate, where you can serve salad, bread etc, but I don’t know if that word is applicable on these objects. Anyway, if you come to Stockholm I think that _[Nordiska museet](http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/category.asp?cat=187&CatName=English)_ is the place you should go to.
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translation-help-with-swedish-norwegian-or-danish/628037/7 "2012-07-13T21:26:23Z")
Thanks Floater, I’ve got an email into Nordiska Museet’s “ask us” address. Hopefully they’ll have time to respond before I leave on holiday.