Nisserne på Blågård / The Nisser at Blågård.

English below.

På alle gamle gårde i Danmark, som i hele Skandinavien, bor der nisser. De er her altid, men de holder sig oftest for sig selv, og de har været her siden Blågård blev bygget i 1900. I de mellemliggende år er mennesker flyttet ud og ind, og nisserne har fulgt forandringerne i menneskenes liv med let forundret interesse.

I 1900 var der aktivitet af mange mennesker pa Blågård fra morgen til aften, for alting tog tid – alle dagens timer blev brugt på at dyrke jorden, lave mad, hente vand og brænde, vaske tøj og den slags, og det tog lang tid, fordi man næsten ingen maskiner havde.

Som årene er gået, er der ikke nær sả travlt på Blågård, for nu har man maskiner til alting, så nu er der ingenting, der tager lang tid. Men alle maskinerne koster mange penge, så nu ligger Blågård for det meste stille hen, mens menneskene er væk fra morgen til aften for at tjene penge til alle de ting, der gør livet pả gården sả let.

Der er heller ikke nær så mange mennesker på gården mere, for i dag har folk brug for meget mere plads til alle deres ting, så nu er der så mange ting i husene, at der ikke er plads til ret mange mennesker.

I dag bor der kun en gammel dame på Blågård, og hun plejede at tage af sted tidligt om morgenen og komme hjem sent om aftenen, længe efter at nisserne var faldet i søvn. Men nu er hun gået på pension, så nu hører nisserne hende, når hun pusler rundt – og hun hører nisserne. Somme tider er hun ikke sikker på, om det er mus på loftet, hun hører, eller om det er nisserne, men hun håber altid det sidste.

On all old farms in Denmark, and in all of  Scandinavia – there are nisser. They are always there, though they usually keep to themselves, and they have been here since Blågård was built in 1900. Ever since, people have come and gone, and the nisser have watched them, slightly discombobulated. 

Back in 1900, Blågård was buzzing with activity from morning till night. Everything took time – the entire day was spent working the land, making food, fetching water and firewood, doing laundry, and so on. Everything took so much time, because they didn’t have any machines.

As the years have passed, Blågård has become much more quiet. Now, they have machines for everything, so nothing takes time anymore. But the machines cost a lot of money, so now Blågård is quiet, while people are away from morning till night, making money to pay for all the machines that make life on the farm so easy.

There are also far fewer people on the farm these days. People now need much more space for all their stuff – their houses are so full of stuff now that there is hardly any room left for people.

Today, only an old lady lives at Blågård. She used to leave early in the morning and return late at night, long after the nisser had fallen asleep. But now she has retired, so the nisser can hear her all the time, and she hear the nisser. Sometimes she is not sure  if it is mice in the attic she hears, or the the nisser, but she always hopes it is the latter.

Nytårsaften.

Nisserne Nytårsaften. Det er årets sidste dag, og de små nisser løber rundt med sølvpapirshatte, for de hørt så meget om mennesker, der går med dem.

Men Nissemor siger, at de sølvpapirshatte ikke er noget at være stolt af, for de forhindrer tossede tanker i at komme ud, og sund fornuft i at komme ind, og derfor har menneskene næsten ødelagt både kloden og sig selv.

Og derfor har en frygtelig pandemi hærget menneskene i årevis, FaktaResistens, og den er meget svær at kurere. Der er ingen vaccine endnu, men selv om der var, ville sølvpapirshattene nok ikke tage den, for de ville tro, at det var en ny konspiration.

Så Nissemor tager de små nissers sølvpapirshatte af dem, og siger, at de skal tage deres uldhuer på igen, og så holder nisserne nytårsaften, og krydser fingre for menneskene.

The nisser on New Year’s Eve. 

It is the last day of the year, and the little nisser are running around wearing tinfoil hats, because they have heard so much about people who wear them.

But Nisse Mom says that these tinfoil hats are nothing to be proud of. They keep silly thoughts from getting out and common sense from getting in, and that is why people have nearly destroyed both the planet and themselves.

And that’s why a terrible pandemic, Fact-Resistance, has plagued humanity for years, and it is very difficult to cure. There is no vaccine yet, but even if there were, the tinfoil hats likely wouldn’t take it, they would probably think it was a conspiracy.

So Nisse Mom takes the tinfoil hats from the little nisser, and tells them to put their woolly caps back on. The nisser then celebrate New Year’s Eve, keeping their fingers crossed for the humans.