Sweet Land Page #2

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you'd think they'd learn English. Tak.

They rolled my eyelids back

with a matchstick.

Did they do that to you?

We didn't have a picture of you,

so we didn't know what you look like.

Inge from Snsa!

You could've looked like anything, eh?

I think you ought to like waking up

in the morning and looking at your wife.

I said to him, "If we don't know what

she looks like, she shouldn't come."

We should have a photo first.

You're ducky.

I got it.

- No regrets!

- "Ducky"?

Uh, it's a made-up word, like, uh

- It means "good."

- [Norwegian]

- [Norwegian] Duck, good.

- Yeah.

Yeah. Anyways, uh, here is the place.

[Norwegian]

I'll get it.

Thanks.

That's too heavy for traveling.

[Norwegian]

[Norwegian]

Do you speak any English?

- English?

- Ah. That much.

Deutsch? Talk Deutsch?

No! No. No German around here.

Welcome. Welcome, Inge.

Inge from Snsa.

- I'm Minister Sorrensen. Welcome.

- Hello.

- Frandsen.

- Hello.

Olaf. OlafTorvik.

Are you ready?

- [Grunts]

- Olaf?

Ja. OlafTorvik.

- Olaf?

- Mm-hmm.

Uh, Frandsen. Alvin Frandsen.

- Alvin Frandsen.

- Just Frandsen.

Just Inge.

I thought she understood.

Come in. Come in.

Inge, even though

you've never met this man...

Olaf...

are you ready to get married?

[Norwegian]

No, no. Only English in

the church. Only English.

Um, she only speaks this much English.

- Uh

- Well

Yes?

[Muttering In German]

Spricht Deutsch?

- Deutsch?

- [Speaking German]

[Crowd Murmuring]

[German Continues]

[German]

English only in the church. English.

Your parents sent you a girl to be married,

they didn't tell you she was German?

- I didn't know.

- How could you not know?

My parents wrote me that there was a girl

who would be good to marry.

- We were at war with Germany.

- [Murmuring]

Yes, Frandsen?

Martin Luther was German.

[Chuckles]

German.

[Chuckles]

She is not one of us.

We speak a common language, we have

a common background, common culture.

She is not one of us.

- Do Do you have papers? Papers?

- [Norwegian]

- Immigration?

- Immigration?

Ja.

But this says that you're

a member of the Socialist party.

- Ja.

- She's a member of the Socialist party!

- [Murmuring]

- Olaf! This is

- No, no. No, I'm sorry.

- No?

There can be no wedding ceremony today.

Not today. No.

What you need to do immediately

is to go and seeJudge Sundby.

Come.

There will be no ceremony

this afternoon at all.

The judge. That's all the way

over in the county seat.

It'll be okay. Uh

Maybe we can stay with my wife's cousin.

You hungry? Hungry?

[Inge]

Uh, I could eat a horse.

Come, Inge Altenberg, to eat.

[Horse Whinnying]

Ja, Olaf. Judge Sundby.

[Olaf]

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