Scania (Skåne) - Danish or Swedish?

[Lobotomist]

When Denmark was 'born', it was seaways and straits that bound it together. The natural borders were the German heaths and the Swedish forests. Norway, Holstein, Schleswig, Halland, Blekinge and Skåne was Danish heartland because of an obvious coherent geography.

This is no more. Canute the Great's empire has shrunk. Lost battles, lost wars and one civil war led to Denmark's decimation, and each and every single attempts to fight back every time failed.


What is your opinion?

acmilan87 gave me this idea for thread.

[Lobotomist]

I think that Scania belongs to Denmark, it is culturally and ethnically more Danish than Swedish. My view should not be seen aggressively against Sweden. We are good friends with Sweden, and the friendship is to be maintained. It is not the Swedish democracy that has stolen Skåne from Denmark and robbed Scanians their natural identity. It is domineering warlords who did not even belong to the Swedish nor Danish people.

[Dombra]

If they leave we´ll have no one to joke about But I think Scania should stay Swedish, get over your losses

[Peikko]

Happened a long time ago and Skåne-folke don't speak Danish and have mixed with Swedes. I'm not gonna vote.

[Baldur]

You be the judge.

[Dombra]

Soon you want Norway too -.-

[Baldur]

Happened a long time ago and Skåne-folke don't speak Danish and have mixed with Swedes. I'm not gonna vote.

The real skånska is a danish dialect.

Scanian used to have many words which differed from standard Swedish. In 1995 Skånska Akademien released Skånsk-svensk-dansk ordbok, a dictionary with 2,711 Scanian words and expressions. It should be mentioned however that not all of these words are in wide use today. While the general vocabulary in modern Scanian does not differ considerably from Standard Swedish, a few specifically Scanian words still exist which are known in all of Scania, occurring frequently among a majority of the speakers. These are some examples:

påg, "boy" (Standard Swedish: pojke, former Danish: poge / pog)
tös, "girl" (Standard Swedish: flicka or tös (archaic), Danish: pige or tøs)
rälig, "disgusting", "ugly", "frightening" (Standard Swedish äcklig, ful, skrämmande/otäck, former Swedish rälig, dialect Danish: rærlig)
vann, "water" (Standard Swedish: vatten, Danish: vand)
hutta, "throw" (Standard Swedish: kasta)
hoe, "head" (Standard Swedish: huvud)
mög, "dirt" (Standard Swedish: smuts, smutsigt, dåligt, Danish: møg)
jue, "jew" (Standard Swedish: jude, Danish: jøde)

There are other Scanian words that are well known in Scania but could be considered old-fashioned or extremely rural in general usage:
pantoffel or pära, "potato" (Standard Swedish: potatis, Danish: kartoffel; pära related to Swedish päron, "pear", Danish: pære "pear").
rullebör, "wheelbarrow" (Standard Swedish: skottkärra, Danish: rullebør, trillebør)
sylten, "hungry" (Standard Swedish: hungrig, Former Swedish svulten, Danish sulten)

[Pallantides]

Denmark should have it and Bohuslän, Jämtland and Herjedalen should go to Norway,

[Dombra]

If Scania is lost we will loose this :<

[Baldur]

And half of the swedish football national team..