Saab, an article you might enjoy or quite possibly not

Forums: Scandinavia, Scandi Words, Scandimania, Hygge, Dr Jakob Stougaard Nielsen
Email this Topic • Print this Page

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/10/scandi-words-hygge-language-mowenna-ferrier

I'm betting you will have opinions..

Topic Stats
Top Replies
Link to this Topic

Type: Discussion • Score: 2 • Views: 1,759 • Replies: 12

No top replies

We have been subjected to hygge stuff in Britain for about 2 years, or to be exact, a British media over-simplification of a Danish/Norwegian thing. From an earlier Guardian article:

Quote:

This year’s most overhyped trend is a wholesome Danish concept of cosiness, used to sell everything from fluffy socks to vegan shepherd’s pie. But the version we’re buying is a British invention – and the real thing is less cuddly than it seems.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/22/hygge-conspiracy-denmark-cosiness-trend

Didn't Sofie Gråbøl's pullover start it all off? Useful corrective here:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/hygge-is-byllshytte-20161103116473

While visiting that site, I came across this:

Quote:

A GROUP of American tourists claims everything they have seen in Swindon is magical like the world of Harry Potter.

The group, from Lubbock, Texas, believes that any building dating from before 1963 is “so Hogwarts” and could just imagine the boy wizard racing above the train station on his broomstick.

Mary Fisher said: “Boy, everything in Britain sure is quaint and enchanting. Is the Ministry of Magic based in that towerblock?

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/swindon-just-like-harry-potter-say-americans-20170310123806

0 Replies

Hello ossobuco.

I have read the article earlier and it is so true.
Lagom is very Swedish and somehow a word difficult to explain or even translate.
It is also the atmosphere created by the people - it is not how a room is decorated.
Here is Angel Hotel, Bury St. Edmonds which for me is full of hygge even if the
British leave the doors open and a cold wind blows thru

http://www.afternoontea.co.uk/media/141614
/angel_loungevenue.jpg

Here is Leonardo Hotel, Hannover, Germany - there is no hzgge

https://www.tagungshotel.com/bilder/1116060366-homefoto-detail2.jpg

This is Plaza Hotel Copenhagen - the Library Bar

http://q-ec.bstatic.com/images/hotel/840x460/447/44770386.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/37/68

/20/376820c1fe686692fad31f7a20be0511.jpg
Hotel Linnea Helsingborg Sweden

https://pix6.agoda.net/hotelImages/155/155006/155006_14050918190019367107.jpg?s=1024x768

1 Reply

@saab,

saab wrote:

Lagom is very Swedish and somehow a word difficult to explain or even translate.
It is also the atmosphere created by the people - it is not how a room is decorated.
Here is Angel Hotel, Bury St. Edmonds which for me is full of hygge even if the
British leave the doors open and a cold wind blows thru

Here is Leonardo Hotel, Hannover, Germany - there is no hzgge

An British person might say the part of the Angel Hotel at Bury St Edmunds in the picture is 'cosy' - it is a corner location, the sofas are close together and in front of a fireplace, so the people using that area will feel safe from the closeness of the walls, and be warm socially and warm physically, and the Leonardo Hotel location might be called 'cold' or 'impersonal', as it has the opposite qualities, and is geometrical and modern-brutalist. Cosy roughly means warm and comfortable - you would get a cosy feeling in winter from drinking hot chocolate while sitting near a fire in a comfortable chair with a cat asleep on your lap.

1 Reply

@centrox,

I tried to sit in the lobby of Leonardy hotel. The chairs are hard as stone. Notice you cannot even face the person you want to speak to.
Angel Hotel has several of those cosy corners for one or more people in the lobby. It is rather easy to have a small chat with a person when you sit there.
Not too much not too little - just lagom.

0 Replies

It's hyggeldy pyggeldy but I'm glad I went there that night (to say nothing of the others).

http://www.marblebarsydney.com.au/assets/images/marble_bar_w_painting.jpg

1 Reply

@ekename,

....and where is this place?

1 Reply

@saab,

How about some Blue Swede while we sing along to the hygge of the ouga, right click on the bar image, copy the image address into another tab and sydney's your uncle?

1 Reply

@ekename,

Thanks - I found it.
This won the Eurovision 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsVeMz1F5c

1 Reply

@saab,

I'll call and meet your Waterloo

And raise you a Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight).

1 Reply

@ekename,

How about this man after midnight

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ae/4b/99/ae4b9919e3c785bd872a9ed4934f4acf.jpg

Saab, an article you might enjoy or quite possibly not

Related Topics

Quick Links

My Account

able2know