"Swedish Radio presents" "Villervalle in the South Pacific" "Episode 5 Raroia" "Not until the ninth day of departure from Tahiti, did we finally arrive at the coral island Raroia." "Isn't it dangerous to go through the breakers like that?" "Dangerous!" "Clearly it happens sometimes, that a boat overturns." "But these sailors seem so skilled, that it's sure to be fine." "Well, now it's our turn, then." "Well, get ready and hop in, then!" "It'll go like clockwork, you'll see." " Mmm..." "like clockwork." "Where's Villervalle, then?" "There!" "Yes, that outfit would probably be appropriate for us all." "Are they also going to settle on Raroia?" "No, they'll just go ashore and stretch their legs for a while." "Every seventh wave is larger." "So the crew has to time it, so the boat can surf over the dangerous coral reef." "Here, Grandma!" "Where's Dad?" "Come on!" "This really went like clockwork." "We're not the first to have come ashore in this way." "Have you noticed that we haven't yet seen a living soul?" "Maybe the island is uninhabited?" "Then it's lucky that we have Robinson Crusoe with us, who knows everything about uninhabited islands." "It can't really be uninhabited, because here comes Friday." "From chief, come... come" "Then we have to change clothes first." "Are the clothes in the bag drier and better looking, then?" "It's best we keep up." "They're following us." "Grandma, Grandma." "Oh, thank you." "there'll be nose kissing, there." "What?" "If anyone tries to lick me on my nose," "I'll give them a really rough Swedish kiss (punch)." "Quiet with your nonsense." "No one intends to lick you on the nose." "In fact, the natives just rub noses against each other." "So the only thing you have to do is stand still, look happy and let them rub." "# Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived!" " The Marseillaise?" " Yes, indeed." "# The bloody standard is raised," "# Do you hear, in the countryside," "# The roar of those ferocious soldiers?" "# They're coming right into your arms," "# To cut the throats of your sons, your women!" "# To arms, citizens," "# Form your battalions," "# Let's march, let's march!" "# Let an impure blood," "# Soak our fields!" "Moule says that they call us "the children of the cold"." "And in the song they hope we'll enjoy it so much on Raroia, that we'll stay here forever." "What a guy!" "Kaoko, what are you doing here?" "I live here!" "Toukurangi, the chief is my Dad." "See you later." "How fine this is!" "And coral on the floor." "Well, there's plenty of room." "But not a single table." "We'll try and get one straight away." "Because no one wants to eat on the floor, I think." "Don't worry unnecessarily." "I promise, I'll cobble together a table in a jiffy tomorrow." "Well, then perhaps we should say thank you." "Thank you for the house." "What a really decent bed!" " I'll have this one!" " You certainly won't!" "Calm down, otherwise, I'll take the bed." "Ha ha, serves you right!" "Hey, you can have the bed." "I always sleep better on the floor." "How generous you are?" "But what's that box?" "It's an ordinary box." "Argh!" " What is it?" " I'm just testing the acoustics of the room." "What?" "Are you afraid of rats, Grandma?" "You, who has shot both lions and tigers." "There's a big difference." "Lions and tigers never climb up my legs." "Hurry up and smarten yourselves as best you can for the chief's party." "It's about time we got some grub." "I'm dying of hunger now." "Climb down now, Villervalle!" "Didn't you hear, jump down!" "Get down!" "Didn't you hear what Dad said?" "Aren't you ready yet?" "You try to put on a wet dress, and see how easy it is." "I tried, Dad!" "Oh well." "It's passable anyway, Mom." " Thank you, Villervalle." " Well, okay then." "The dance depicts how frigate birds fly around high up in the sky." "They say that we're welcome and that the food will taste good." "The food, yes." "If only we got something to eat soon." " It's like a Swedish 50th birthday." " Worse!" "If I don't get food soon, I'll eat up the entire table cloth." "Save a piece for me, too, please." "The last bit of Toukurangis entertainment program is a spear dance, which at the time when the Raroia people were still cannibals, really was a kind of military drill." "Are we initiated in the Polynesian way now, Dad?" "Yes, this also means, that the village has adopted all of us." "Adopted?" "At my age?" "Food!" "Will the table be ready soon, Ernst dear?" "Märta, serve dinner on the floor!" "Do you know the stone?" "Haven't you seen the stone." "the hair, nose, the mouth." "Haven't you see it, in the lagoon, around here?" "Sjussov's map is similar to a real treasure map." "They ask about a huge stone, which looks like a man's head." "Too bad, I didn't get to know more about the Sjussov's." "Toukurangis wants us to prepare palm torches, if it gets dark before the schooner leaves." "I wonder where Villervalle has gone." "He's fine and probably eating somewhere, as usual." "Well, now we're isolated from the outside world, until the next schooner arrives." " When will that be, do you think?" " It may take several months." "So that if something happens, we must fend for ourselves, then?" "Well, what could happen to us?" "No, nothing unless Villervalle falls down from a palm tree, or Lena Lisa gets bitten by a shark, or we all get sunstroke." " You have a doctor with you." " Yes, we've got you." "Worthy successor to Sven Hedin." "Onward to adventure, forward march!" "Episode 6 The Doctor Arrives" " Are you crazy?" " Rise and shine!" "Well hold on, then!" "Ow!" "Good morning, dear Grandma!" "Good morning, urchins!" " Yes, come in!" " Good morning, Doctor Botman!" "Yes, very funny." " Was that you?" " Yes." "Were you pretenting to be a cabbage roll last night, Mom?" "Yes, you might well say that." "Hey, Ernst, that table that you promised to cobble together in a jiffy, go ahead with it now." "There's someone calling out." "Maybe it's someone who wants something." " But Ernst." " Yes." "No, it was a man with a dog." "It may not be to us, he was calling." "Oh, Dad you can be so dumb." "What do you mean?" "Don't you remember that the chief adopted us... and gave us Polynesian names at the welcome party last night?" "It's you who's Varoa." "Varoa." "Varoa Botman, go out and see what the man wants!" "I don't understand it." "He just stuck the rope in my hand." "Yeah, thanks, I saw it." "I don't understand it either." "But it was nice all the same." "Is the table ready, Ernst?" "What a neat table, Dad!" "The awl is great to make holes with." "Dinner on the floor again, Märta!" "Didn't he say at all, what the dog is called?" "No, not what breed it is, either." "Or why we got it." "But what should we call the dog, then?" "Since we don't know anything about the dog, I suggest that we call it "Question Mark"." "Yes, bravo Villervalle!" " If we decide to keep it." " Of course, we should keep it." "Yes, yes, we'll see." "Well, we have much to do." "Ernst, ensure that the table is ready." "And you children, help Grandma to unpack." "So, take away the dog." " What are they eating?" " What did you say, Mommy dearest?" "You heard well enough." "It's the third day in a row that we've received a similar mutt." "Similar!" "This is Exclamation Mark, this is Question Mark and this is Little Comma." "I really hope then, that we'll soon reach "Full Stop"." " Hello, Villervalle." " Hello, Kaoko." "Mom, Dad, Kaoko and Tetohu have returned from the windward side!" "He wants to know, why you not eat dogs?" "Does he really mean that they eat dogs?" "I'd rather die than taste roast dog." "Do you eat hot dogs, I mean dog steak, like these?" "Yes, very good." "You like eat yourself." "You all eat very much." "Yes, we all ate roast dog at the welcome party yesterday." "And we thought it was delicious." "My goodness." "I feel sick." "Me, too." "It's too late to get sick now." "A very interesting custom, by the way." "I think I'm going to... to go and make some notes about it immediately." "Take away... the dogs." "But let's at least keep Question Mark, as he's so friendly with everyone." "Yes, keep him then, but get rid of the other punctuation marks." "Dad's carpentry, not so bad, eh?" "Where did Dad go?" "Ernst!" "There, he is." "Hey, nice!" "It's really cleverly done, Ernst." " Really nice!" " Nice job, dad." "Hurrah for Dad Flintstone." "Now we have the pleasure to gather for the first family council on Raroia, to discuss work and the children's schooling." "What a pleasure, huh." "Listen, it's awfully ugly to hang over the table like that." "And dangerous, too, because of the table." "As you know, I expect that all of you will help me with my research." "Of course this doesn't mean that the children may neglect their schooling." "So let's begin by making a school schedule." "There's a fire!" "The meeting is suspended." " How did this happen, exactly?" " He got a shower of gasoline over himself." " A shower of gasoline?" " Yes, he was filling his nice new lamp, and then he dropped a burning cigarette in the gasoline container." "His wife is so angry at him because the lamp is destroyed." "Never mind the lamp.The main thing is that he survived, isn't it?" "No, I don't like his wife." "New men, she can get a hold of as many as she wants, she says, but a new lamp is much more difficult to obtain and costs a lot more money." "I've done nothing but pulled out teeth all day." "Oh, my goodness, what teeth!" "What do you mean, Dad?" "She has almost no teeth at all." "The whole village is almost completely toothless." "Many are not more than 20 years old." "I wonder what they eat, actually." "There we have one we must take out immediately." " Hand me a syringe." " Which one do you want?" " 5 ml, 2 percent." " With or without Excedrin?" "With." "Here you are." "Dad, there's a man out there." "He wants you to go with him now." " What is it, then?" " I don't know, but he wants you to go with him right away." " Tell him, I'm coming." " Okay." "What's the matter, Dad?" "A woman in labour." "So you stay out here and wait." "Dad!" "Do you know, in the South Seas the women give birth standing." "I read it." "You read it in a book that I wrote." "But thank you." "They've always had men as midwives here on Raroia." "Come in!" "What's the white sticky stuff, she has on her face, Dad?" "It's fetal fat that she has from her mother's belly." "But now they don't wash it off until after 24 hours." "Look, Dad!" "What day is it today, Dad?" "Thursday the 13th of December." "But then it's St. Lucia day!" "Yes." "Shall we go home and sing for the others?" "Yeah!" "Let's do it, Dad." " Aren't you ready yet?" " Shh!" "# Night walks with..." "Night walks with a heavy step." "# Night walks with a heavy step," "# Round yard and hearth," "# As the sun departs from earth," "# Shadows are brooding." "# Look, at our threshold stands, # white-clad with lights in her hair," "# Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia." "# Look, at our threshold stands, # white-clad with lights in her hair," "# Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia." "How sweet you are!" "Well, unfortunately, we were unable to bake any St. Lucia buns." "Here, they should be called St. Lucia hot dogs instead." "Don't mention the dog steak again." "Dad became a father today." " No, what fun, Ernst!" " And everything went well?" " Yes, a healthy child." " Boy or girl?" "A little Lucia, of course." "Here on the island they don't celebrates St. Lucia day well at all." "No, they probably have no idea what it's about." "Then I think we should shed some light on it." "Well..." "Hey, we'll sing to Toukorangi first." "If we hurry, he won't have time to wake up." "Please Villervalle, may we drink our coffee first?" "# Night walks with a heavy step," "# Round yard and hearth," "# As the sun departs from earth," "# Shadows are brooding." "# There in our dark house," "# Walking with lit candles," "# Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia." "# There in our dark house," "# Walking with lit candles," "# Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia." " They ran away!" " It's not so strange, the way you look." "Have you found out why Toukorangi was so scared?" " Yes, he thought we were pit ghosts." " Pit ghosts?" "Yes, a kind of ghost, that lives on the windward side of the island." "And they say, that the ghosts are dressed just as we were." "Oh well, ghost stories, they're apparently everwhere." "Lenalisa and Villervalle, this is your first correspondence lesson in geography and history." "From now, make sure you crack down on your reading." " Kaoko and I were going to go..." " Villervalle, it's like I've been saying." " Yes, but we'd help you over there..." " It's very nice of you... to want to help me with my research." "But first, the work and homework." "Then go fishing." "Episode 7 The Fishing Trip" "Grandma's coming!" "# And sorrows we have none, Our merry songs echo..." "Terrible how good boys and girls have it at home, in school." "Yeah, they aren't disturbed by the sound of the waves and flickering sun... and everything else, that makes you unable to think." "# And sorrows we have none, Our merry songs echo..." "# As we go over dew..." "But look, there's a crab in the shell!" "Haven't you seen a hermit crab before?" "There's a lot of them." "It has no skin on the abdomen and to protect themselves, crawl into a shell." "When it's grown out of it, it crawls into a new one, which is a bigger." "# As we go over dew-sprinkled mountains," "# Which borrow from emeralds their colour," "# And sorrows we have none, Our merry songs echo..." "# As we go over dew-sprinkled mountains." "# We go over dew-sprinkled mountains," "# Which borrow from emeralds their colour." "# And sorrows we have none, Our merry songs echo..." "# As we go over dew-sprinkled mountains." "Kaoko, where are you going?" "Going fishing!" "Lucky guy, who can go fishing whenever he wants." "Have you already finished your homework?" "No, not really, but I have to think about helping Dad by studying the natives eating habits and stuff." "Hey, read for me as well, eh?" "Kaoko!" "What's he going on about, that I should sit in the canoe." "Of course I have to stand up, if I'm to be able to guide us past those dangerous coral reefs." "By pushing the canoe back and forth, it sloshes sufficient water out, for the gunwale to be clear." "Then you just bail it out by hand." "Not a single worm anywhere." "Villervalle?" "Oh, how stupid I am!" "Of course, one uses hermit crabs as bait." "Not a good thing!" "A fishing rod, which cost 57 bucks." "Hello, Grandma!" "What are you doing here?" "I've helped Dad." " Oh, so you've helped Dad." "Oh thanks, Grandma, that's just what we need to carry home all the fish." "# And sorrows we have none, Our merry songs echo..." "Rascal!" "But tomorrow I'll be watching you." "And if you don't do your homework, then..." "Up with you now!" "You have two lessons to be read today." "But Grandma, don't you know that it's Sunday today?" "So, is it Sunday?" "Then I understand, why all the villagers are so dressed up." "Then I think, that we'll go to church today." " What time is it at, then?" " It's at 7 o'clock." "At 7 o'clock?" "Yes, you have to adapt to local customs." "Hurry up now and put on something nice." "On Raroia they're all Catholics." "And though they don't have any priest or missionary, all the villagers gather each Sunday to worship." "Everyone puts on their best European clothing, and sometimes even shoes." "You can almost see from the facial expressions, which ones have shoes on their feet and who is barefoot." "The church is built of coral stone." "And when it was built, in Kaoko's grandfather's time, many men on the island were cannibals and tried to stop the construction." "But today everyone helps decorate the church, and give money to the collection plate." "Can I play football with Kaoko?" "But are you going to play football like this right after Church?" "You have to adapt to local customs, right, Dad?" "Well, bye!" "What in the world are you sitting there for?" "I just want to make sure, that half of my students don't skip class again." "Well, wake him now anyway, because it's his turn to help out in the kitchen as well." "Up with you now!" "Today, you won't get away." "Villervalle, if you don't dry the dishes today, there'll be detention." "And Villervalle, how dare you fool your old Grandma?" "You rascal." "Did the turtles work?" "Kaoko says, that we should go outside the reef, where there are lots of fish to harpoon." "It's a small conger eel, or moray eel, which Kaoko has harpooned." "It has dangerous fangs, that one must watch out for." " Villervalle, Huehue!" " Huehue?" "Huehue, the balloon fish, fills itself with water so others will be afraid of it." "Kaoko!" "Tetohu." "Help!" "An octopus!" "It's eating me up!" "Hands up!" "Oh, you scared me." "What are you out hunting, Grandma?" "Truants, especially accident prone ones." "Hands up!" "Forward march!" "This evening there'll be detention." "Episode 8 Shark Adventure" "(Reading aloud from textbooks)" "Hey, you can actually read just as well with the mask on." "What's the good of that?" "You're not going to sit on the seabed and read, are you?" "(Reading aloud from textbook)" "Hey, a sharks jaw like this would be nice to return home with." "As soon as we get a holiday I think I'll go out and catch a couple of really big sharks." "How do you aim to catch them, then?" "With your hands, perhaps?" "No, the best way to kill a shark is to cut open its belly with a sheath knife." "But I've heard it said that sharks can be a little dangerous sometimes." "I've checked with both Tetohu and Kaoko, and they say that sharks are among the most cowardly animals around." "And besides, they have very poor eye sight." "If they bite someone, it's only by accident." "But that doesn't make things any better for the person who gets bitten." "Stuff like that happens very rarely." "The only times sharks are truly dangerous is when there's blood in the water." "Then they go absolutely wild, says Kaoko." "And Tetohu told me, that once when they were out..." "Grandma's coming!" "(Reading aloud from textbooks)" "What a lovely sight!" "I hope you've been reading like this all morning." "Oh yes, Grandma." "15 minute break!" "Then it'll be homework tests." "Grandma, can I go out with Kaoko and paddle a while?" "All my muscles will waste away if I'm going to be shut up in this way." "Very well, go out and paddle a while." "I also think that we should do the same." "These beautiful necklaces of cowries are worn by both men and women." "But they also use the cowries for decoration, like on small tablecloths and baskets." "There's Nose fish down there." "And fried Nose fish is the best Grandma knows how to do." "I think I'll catch two for her." " The break is over." "Stay here now, and I'll interrogate you in peace and quiet while Kaoko dives." "But could I at least have a dip?" "It will be easier for me to remember." "So be it, then." "Finally, a break." "How do you like the playground, eh?" "That's a butterfly fish, but you can't eat them." "Well, what's the first question?" "What do you know about Gustav Vasa?" "Gustav Vasa?" "Why do you want me to tell you about Gustav Vasa?" "He was a man who lived long ago on the other side of the world." "Aren't you ashamed, Villervalle!" "Can't you remember his real name and the estate he came from?" "He came from Vasa." "His name was Gustav Eriksson and he came from Rydboholm." "It sounds like the name of a member of parliament." "Why isn't he Rydboholm?" "Just wait, you pompous miscreant." "Soon you must humbly come up again and get air." "Shoals of fish swimming around the coral forest look like swarms of little birds." "I usually call these fish, blue tits." "There's a trumpet fish." "These fish with those beautiful fins are actually called pennant coralfish." "The zebrafish is of course a striped animal." "A Tridacna clam, just right for school lunch." "Oh, if only I had my harpoon." "Then I'd have harpooned that spotted kipu fish." "This time you won't escape." "How was Gustav Eriksson Vasa related with Kristina Gyllenstierna, who defended Stockholm against King Kristian?" "One could say that I'm in over my head." "Don't talk nonsense." "She was his aunt." "Gosh, were there already aunts back then?" "You should be ashamed." "You don't know any history, and you can't catch any fish." "Kaoko can, of course!" "That kind of fish doesn't exist." "I give up." "Get your spear from the canoe and try to catch some fish, so you'll at least do some good." "A worse student than you doesn't exist." "Thanks, Grandma." "Doesn't exist." "Now come the sharks." "They're not dangerous if one isn't afraid." "They're magnificent." "A manta ray." "Like an airplane!" "It probably weighs at least a ton." "There's an incredible amount of fish down there." "There's a giant manta and lots of sharks." "Well, where's all the fish you were going to catch?" "You have to study their habits first." "If only you could study on land as well." "So long, Grandma!" " What do you say now, Grandma?" " Did you scare it to death?" "You just wait, Grandma, this is just the beginning." "This is the worst of all the fish on the reef, the moray eel, sea eel." "It has sharp jaws like a bear trap." "If it bites hold of your hand, then there are only two things you can do." "Cut off the head of the moray eel, or your hand." "The hardest thing is to get the moray eel out of the hole." "It's almost two meters long." "Ow, I cut myself on a coral." "It's bleeding!" "If only the shark doesn't smell the blood." "But I'm going to take the moray eel back to Grandma." "I will!" "How did I get out of that?" " But the shark then?" " It sank immediately." "But Grandma, can't they dive down and pick it up?" "I'd so much like to have a sharks jaw." "Please Grandma, don't tell them that I passed out." "I promise you, how the shark fishing went about, is a secret between us." "But then you must also read your homework properly in the future." "Cross my heart." "Mom, Dad, come and see!" "Come on!" "What a shark!" " Where did you get that from?" " Get?" "Surely it wasn't you that caught it, Villervalle?" "It... it's my shark." "Lenalisa, get the tape measure!" "But you're bleeding." "Have you hurt yourself?" "It's just a little scratch I got when I fought with the shark." "Gosh, I thought you were just kidding when you said you could kill a shark." "Place the measuring tape at the nose, Villervalle!" "150... 176." "176!" "Not so bad for my first shark." "Why are you putting the shells in boxes?" "Because it's a bit difficult to write letters and stick stamps directly on the shells." "Now I know!" "Lenalisa, was it you who left this here?" "Take it inside!" " Stay away from my shells." " Shells?" "Sss!" "Hey, what are you up to, anyway?" "I'm going to send some souvenirs to Nisse and other school mates." "And what do you have planned for the customs declaration?" "For you haven't forgotten, that the packages have to be cleared?" "Shark teeth, of course." "Lenalisa puts "shells" on her packages." "You are young and innocent, clearly." "It's not so simple, back home in Sweden." "You see, if you put "shark teeth" and "shells", then the poor customs clerk won't find any product category that fits." "Instead, he'll summon his superiors, who will hold a special meeting on the matter, write long reports." "The Board of Customs will set up a special committee to investigate the matter." "And it means, that your classmates will be old men and women, when they get your shells and shark teeth." "Then I know what to write." "Dentures." "Hey!" "Look what I found in the shark's head." "A bullet from Grandma's rifle." "Amazing!" "Then the shark managed to catch the bullet before I killed it." "Subtitles by Faxeholm and Squashy Hat"