Talk:Molbo story
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This page was listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion in May, 2004 under its original title of Molbo. The result of that discussion was to keep the article. For an archive of the discussion, see Talk:Molbo story/Delete.
Not a good candidate for speedy delete IMO. Discussion on VfD should be allowed to continue. Andrewa 06:02, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
[edit] External links broken
The first of three external links points to books that might possibly be ordered if one reads Danish. The other two point off to 404-land. Perhaps someone in Norway or Denmark (eller to molboer) cares to do something?
The molboer stories are really sort of neat. They are ethnic jokes so badly told that they reflect on the teller as well. Similar stories are also told about Skåne, part of southern Sweden that used to belong to Denmark. "De war to Skåner ..." was as familiar to my grandfather 120 years ago in Thy (near Mols) as "There were these two Scotsmen ..." was to his counterparts across the sea in Yorkshire. And yes, as far as I know the Thy dialect was spoken with "wubbleyou" where the rest of Denmark pronounces a V.
Here's another molboerhistorie, gratis. Several molboer find a pocket watch on the road. They listen to the ticking, and are frightened. They carry it to the old wise man of their village. He places the watch on a stump, smashes it with a stone and the ticking stops. The villagers are proud of their resourceful wise man. Snezzy 01:06, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
