“SD’s Karlsson takes still satirfiguren Haraldur seriously”
“the Whole of the Faroe islands laughed at the SD’s Mattias Karlsson when he took satirfiguren Haraldur seriously. But it does not prevent Karlsson from trying to emulate the fictional ultranationalisten in the film as shown on SVT Play.”
“For a decade ago, a group of SD politicians to a national day celebrations -the Faroe islands, where they were charmed by the wide open spaces, folkdräkterna, and – most importantly – Haraldur that was a proud speech to the nation. A speech so excessively – ”The individual man is nothing, the fatherland is everything!!! The faroe islands forever! – that no one would be able to take it seriously, thought Sjúrdur Skaale, a satirist known from a sketchprogram in the faroese tv. Skaale is also left-wing politicians, and was greatly surprised when it turned out that the SD in the party’s own newspaper praised his figure as a nationalist role model.”
“”It is of his century, would be taken seriously – as a shocking example of how löjligu002Ffördummande nationalism can be if it develops in the wrong direction”, wrote -Skaale yourself in Expressen 2009.”
“Despite the fact that he was fictional so inspired, Haraldur Mattias Karlsson, then as now. So how similar is the SD politician, is his role model?”
“Haraldur is a naturvurmande karlakarl eating valspäck and dried fish. He dresses in wool sweater and carries a knife.”
“Mattias Karlsson not wearing the knife in the movie ”Mattias Karlsson – the year leading up to the election”, but to be filmed when he goes to sharpen his scythe before a slåttergille. He alternates between the two wool sweater when he shows up how ordinary he is in his home and the first looks to be purchased on precisely the Faroe islands, where Karlsson returned with the last president’s delegation 2018. With the food is the worse, the stressed-out politician stops at Mcdonald’s to have a look. But when the other partitopparna come for a visit, he serves ”Swedish tapas” – cheese and sausage – and put up both milk and schnapps on the table.”
“, ”When I walked in the pasture the other day, I couldn’t help but pick up a stone, as certainly been there a thousand years longer than I have. I kissed the stone, and kissed me back. It was clear that it felt so much better than what I felt it.”, said Haraldur in his speech, as quoted by Mattias Karlsson in SD’s journal – and yes, Mattias Karlsson feel the same love for nature in Småland, even if we don’t get to see him making out with a stone in the movie.”
“I also visited the Faroe islands 2018, as well as Karlsson were placed under the I of the animals and the beautiful nature. But also of the language, an exciting mixture of icelandic, Danish and Norwegian, and to a nation with only 50 000 inhabitants have their own Pride parade. A parade that, unlike Haraldur in the highest degree is real.”
