"A boy on his journey faces many perils;" "Beasts of the field and the birds of the sky can barely protect him." "I, who sent out the poor fellow;" "am pleased with each small friend, who gives him a refuge, and hides him in their heart." "Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey" "Subtitles By Oliver Sanderson  Oskar" "Bang, bang..." "Hurry up!" "Nils!" "Nils!" "Come and get ready." "It's time to go to church." "Nils!" "Nils!" "Hurry up." "We'll be late." "My foot is hurting." "If you don't want to come, then you'll have to read the sermon at home." "Nils, sit here in father's chair." "Make sure that you read it properly." "I'll question you when we get home." "Get started straight away, so you have time." "You heard what father said." "Goodbye." "He doesn't want to learn anything at school and he can barely tend the geese." "The worst thing is that he isn't very kind towards either people or animals." "Bye Nils!" "Nils?" "Help me up, Nils Holgersson!" "What are you?" "An elf?" "Would you help me up?" "Well, if I get a big coin." "Here you go." "Now you must keep your promise." "No, a silver coin isn't enough." "I want more!" "You didn't keep your promise!" "Help!" "Help!" "Elf, where are you?" "I was only joking." "Elf!" "Where are you, elf?" "Is there no one who wants to help me?" "Is that Nils the goose boy?" "It serves him right!" "He pulled me by the tail." "He threw stones at me!" "No, but, so strange..." "I understand what you're saying." "If you know where the elf is, can you tell me?" "Can't you help me?" "You?" "How about you?" "Is there no one who wants to help me?" "Misse, we've always been friends." "The mountains, the mountains." "Now off to the hills." "Join us!" "Join us!" "We're having a good time right now." "Imagine being able to fly to the mountains..." "Join us!" "Wait!" "I'm coming!" "The heck you're not!" "Mother's finest Martin's goose." "I'm coming!" "Join us!" "Sit still." "I'll fall off!" "Stop, Marten!" "Akka!" "The white one follows us." "It's easier to fly fast than slow, even for a tame goose." "The white one doesn't have the energy." "He's wobbling." "Now he plunges!" "Those who can't cope, may turn back." "Martin, we're turning." "You've clearly never flown before." "So what?" "You can't go all the way to Lapland." "I'll never again be able to play with other boys." "Wild geese are very brave, and they despise us domestic birds." "Therefore it would be honorable to cope with the journey" "All the way to Lapland." "So..." "You think you can fly with us wild geese." "It's Mother Akka from Kebnekaise." "She's very old." "Reply boldly." "But don't say you're human." "A tame goose also has wings." "You're not very good at flying." "But perhaps you're adept at running?" "I've not seen a tame goose run." "I've never done it." "You respond courageously." "Those who are brave can become a good friend." "You may fly with us a day or two, and we'll see how it goes." "Thank you very much." "Thank you, dear Mother Akka." "We must follow all the way to Lapland!" "Spring has arrived in earnest." "Who do you have on your back?" "My companion..." "He's a goose guard." "It may be what a tame goose needs." "What's his name?" "What's his name?" "He has several names." "Several?" "Yes..." "What are the names of the others in the flock?" "The oldest is Yksi from Vassijaure, Kaksi from Niolja," "Kolme from Sarektjakko, Nelja from Svappavaara." "Viisi from Oviksfjall and Kuusi from Sjangeli." "The six other 2nd year goslings of best Alpine family." "But we don't keep company with one who doesn't say who he is!" "I am Nils Holgersson From West Vemminghog." "Until today I was human..." "Man!" "Man!" "Marten, try taking a sip of water." "You just need to get a little closer." "Marten..." "Hey..." "I've thought of something." "I don't think I'd manage alone on such a long journey, but if you would join me..." "I'll go home to mother and father." "In the autumn I'll take you home." "We can't tolerate people among us." "Are you wild geese afraid of one so small?" "I'm not." "You're responsible for him." "Tomorrow he'll leave." "We sleep on the ice tonight, on account of Smirre Fox." "We'll also find somewhere safe." "A night on the ice..." "We'll freeze to death!" "Spread the grass so I have something to stand on." "If you help me, I'll help you." "There you'll be warm and well." "Good night and sweet dreams." "If I could understand where he is!" "Beware!" "Smirre Fox!" "You helped the wild geese." "They won't forget." "You'll be hearing from me, Nils Holgersson!" "Nils!" "You who are so small should be aware of the dangers lurking everywhere." "Fox and raccoon, otter and weasel." "To say nothing of viper and hawk." "If they're all like Smirre Fox, it probably won't be easy." "There is Mr. Ermenrich from Pomerania." "Where is it?" "Well, it's in a foreign country" "He has difficulty with balance in the wind." "Do you think Mother Akka will send me home?" "I can not be seen like this at home." "I can be happy, who suffered the worst thing that can happen to anyone." "Nils!" "Maybe I should have said something about you for saving us from Smirre Fox." "But I think that actions speak louder than words." "I have sent a message to the elf and told him how well you behaved." "Well..." "He promised that if you come home You can be human again!" "What is it?" "What is it, Nils?" "If you don't go now, maybe it will be difficult to persuade him another time." "I don't want to be human." "I want to go to Lapland!" "What if you change your mind." "I won't." "As you wish, then." "Thank you!" "The cranes are on their way to the crane dance." "You're lucky to be a part of it." "In fact, no human being has been with us." "We don't trust people." "But I'm not human." "Or am I...?" "So many that come here!" "Smirre Fox may also be present." "Marten, look!" "Beware!" "Smirre Fox has bitten to death one of the goslings!" "Smirre Fox has broken the peace of the play day." "An outlaw and banished from the hunting grounds, no resting and hiding place, must there be!" "My grandfather was a sailor and he told me about the shipyard." "Why are you standing there, long lip?" "What are you?" "That's himself, Karl XI." "It's he who founded the city." "Who are you?" "Rosenbom." "Once boatswain on the warship Audacity." "Now carved in wood and exhibited as a poor-box." "Have you seen a small impudent boy?" "Your Majesty is on the wrong track." "He went down to the shipyard." "Thanks, Rosenbom!" "Rosenbom is a splendid fellow." "Your Majesty!" "I take off my hat to those who founded this city." "Hooray for you. long lip!" "The sun has risen, Majesty!" "Now we'll go!" "Now we'll go!" "Is the lighthouse Long Jan?" "I got it!" "Marten!" "Anyone seen Marten Gåsakarl?" "He may have become lost in the fog." "I shall look for him." "Be careful." "Martin, where are you?" "Is your name Marten?" "Yes, and I'll call you Dunfin." "I'd have starved to death unless you came." "You shall fly with me, Nils the goose boy and all the others to Lapland!" "Nils the goose boy as well." "Shooters in the boats." "Fly high." "Flight away!" "They should be ashamed." "Shooting at Mother Akka and at you, Gåsakarl!" "Is that you, Smirre Fox?" "I'll follow you all over the country as long as one of you is alive." "But throw me Nils the goose boy and I won't chase you any more." "Should we sacrifice one of our own?" "He's not one of you." "No, he's our friend." "Not one can be friends with one of those!" "Not if you're Smirre fox, maybe." "But we can, and we are." "We can all sacrifice our lives for him!" "If he means so much to you, then, he's the first person I'll take." "Within a kind of ring wall, it is said that there was a city called Vineta." "But the people were arrogant and as punishment the city sank into the sea." "Those who lived there can never die." "One night every hundred years the city will rise up for one hour, in all its splendor and glory." "But if a merchant in Vineta sells anything to a living being, the city will fall into the sea again." "So it is told, anyway." "But don't be sad because you can't see the city." "The one we see below us is just as old." "Where are you going?" "To where there's no noise." "Wild geese!" "Where are you going?" "To where there's neither matches or candles." "There lives more birds than in any other lake in the country." "Swans, coots, mallards..." "I was just wondering where they'll go when the people use up all the water." "Surely they can't?" "Soon the lake bottom will be as dry as a cottage-floor." "Has anything new happened?" "A boy has been transformed by an elf." "He's so small that he's going to Lapland on a goose." "Strange..." "Truly remarkable." "And he may never be human again?" "It's a secret, but I know." "The elf has said that if the boy just watches over the goose, he'll come home unharmed." "What else, Lady Brown Owl?" "Human again?" "Watch over the goose?" "You'll see!" "Marten!" "Marten!" "Hurry up!" "We mustn't fall behind." "It's getting hot." "Beware of Smirre Fox!" "Hurry up!" "He's coming this way." "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "What are you?" "Nils the goose boy." "You must help me." "So, you have Smirre Fox after you." "Him, we'll chase away." "Now get out!" "Otherwise, I'll take you!" "I know how long your chain reaches." "Suit yourself!" "What was that?" "That's it, Yes..." "Marten!" "Goodbye, Smirre Fox!" "I hope they make a good watchdog of you." "Marten?" "Yes, Dunfin." "Now I know where I am." "Down there is the city that swims on water." "The city that swims on the water..." "Sit still, Nils." "Marten!" "Help!" "Hold on!" "Marten!" "Did you shoot him?" "He's alive." "I have him in the basket." "Is that a leprechaun, you can probably get paid more than you get for waterfowl." "Yes, I thought that." "Why don't you show him to me first?" "Uncle, where is the Bear Mountain?" "Over there." "Look!" "What's that?" "Gorgo..." "Gorgo!" "Don't bother me." "I'm dreaming..." "I dream that I am free and hovering in the sky." "I don't want to be awake." "It's me" " Nils the goose boy." "I've heard of you." "Is Mother Akka here as well?" "No, she's probably in Lapland now." "It's only me who's still here." "I can help you out if you want." "Can YOU?" "I can help you get out!" "I didn't think one so small could help me get out." "It is a good deed that will be talked about among us animals." "I'm glad you came with me." "I wasn't going to abandon you." "As thanks for your help, I'll fly you anywhere you want." "What was it Dunfin said?" ""The city that swims on water."" "This is how it should always be." "Avoid work and just have fun." "In this city kings reigned." "Here archbishops were more powerful than the king himself." "Here is the the bastion of learning." "If I were not an eagle, but human like you..." "like you were..." "I would sit down here and read everything in books." "Imagine being able to become a doctor, judge or priest." "Father and mother would be happy if I ever got that far." "There's Bataki - the raven." "Where?" "I can't see him." "Do you see the window to the far right?" "He wants to talk to you about something." "You want to be human again, don't you?" "I promise that if I come home with Marten Gåsakarl,then..." "But you can become a man now." "When someone says that he would like to be in your shoes..." "Then you whisper in his ear..." "Then you become human again." "Who wants to swap with me?" "Do you mean that in there...?" "What are you?" "I am Nils Holgersson." "I have been bewitched." "Now I'm going with the geese to Lapland." "I'd rather be in your shoes anyway." "Would you like to swap with me?" "I'm happy to exchange with anyone." "If you knew what happened today." "I've been failed in my exam." "And so I've betrayed a friend..." "How so betrayed?" "Now you know why I'm reluctant to switch with anyone." "Gorgo!" "You had the opportunity to be human again!" "Do you hear?" "They're shooting at us!" "It's nothing dangerous." "Tonight the people are playing." "Glad as the bird in the early morning I greet the spring in the healthy nature" "Lark me cry and the thrush in the grove wagtails on the field and the black game in the scots pine" "Glad as the bird in the early morning I greet the spring in the healthy nature" "Lark me cry and the thrush in the grove wagtails on the field and the black game in the scots pine" "See how the silvery little creeks jump and turn, jump and turn" "Friendly arms around tufts and stones!" "See, the little ones in bushes and branches..." "Hey, Gorgo?" "Bells ring the same as at home." "I wonder how many Sundays have passed since I left home." "My wings bear you where you want to go, and my eyes see what you want to find." "In this case, we look for Marten and Mother Akka!" "There you see the city you call main farm in the timber area." "It's so black!" "See how I look!" "If I become human again I'll look her up and thank her for the bread." "Here you are." "You may also be hungry." "Now we're going into Lapland." "Look there, Gorgo!" "Gorgo, it's like flying right into Winter." "The snow never melts here." "I'm an eagle and must live as an eagle." "But everyone is afraid of me." "Nobody wants to be friends with a robber and a bird eater like me." "Am I awake or am I dreaming?" "You're not dreaming." "The sun keeps you awake." "It's almost midnight, but here the sun never sets in summer." "We've arrived!" "We've reached the wild geese valley." "Of Marten and mother Akka?" "I didn't want to wake you until now." "Marten!" "Marten..." "Welcome, Nils." "Mother Akka!" "What about Marten and Dunfin?" "Fine." "Now that Marten and Dunfin have young they might not have time for you..." "I understand that." "I'll show you around here instead." "This is Kebnekaise, Sweden's highest peak." "Sweden's highest peak?" "Do you see who that is?" "It's Gorgo!" "Down there runs a wolverine." "It's not often you see them." "There lies the world's largest city..." "It has the largest area in the world!" "Marten!" "Nils!" "Nils!" "Father!" "Mother!" "How long are we staying here?" "Are you homesick?" "Want to see your mother and father?" "Yes, that also..." "Also?" "What do you mean?" "All kinds of things." "You want to become human again?" "Yes, I long for that most of all." "Look, Mother Akka!" "Now the goslings wings are fully grown." "Soon there'll be no food here anymore." "In the morning we leave south again." "Marten!" "Tomorrow we go home!" "I've told Dunfin how good I had it at home." "To the south!" "To the south!" "Akka, we're hungry!" "Eat-air." "Poor goslings!" "We're thirsty!" "Drink wind." "Nils!" "Yes." "Who is it?" "It's the raven." "Do you remember the condition?" "Yes, I'll take Marten Gåsakarl homel!" "You know what it will mean?" "What do you mean?" "You make me worried." "You may become human again if you take Marten Gåsakarl home, so that your mother can kill him!" "You're lying!" "Ask mother Akka." "So it's true, then..." "On that farm we always get food." "Keep in mind that we'll soon be home!" "Nils, remember:" "There's always a way out of all difficulties." "How to become human without something happening to Marten, I don't know." "But surely you'll find a way out, as long as you continue to do good to all you meet." "Hey, Martin..." "It is getting boring at home." "I think not." "On the contrary." "Shouldn't we follow the geese?" "I'd prefer to go home and show Dunfin and the chicks to the hens, cows and to your mother and father." "You see a lot of strange stuff, but I enjoy it better in the fields back home." "I'd go with the wild geese, but I can't do it without you..." "If you really want to, it's certain that I won't leave you alone." "We'll continue with the wild geese!" "I thought you wanted to be human." "Well..." "Now we'll soon be abroad." "What's it like there?" "Tell us!" "How does it look?" "Just look down." "That's how it looks abroad!" "Like this?" "Yes, from the coast across the sea all the way to the high mountains, and beyond them, we have never been." "Look!" "Look!" "Are you homesick, Nils?" "Tomorrow, we're going away over the sea." "We're pretty close to West Vemminghög." "Why don't you go home and visit?" "It'll be ages before we come back." "It's better not to." "If Marten stays here, nothing can happen to him." "I'll fly you there." "Will you, mother Akka?" "Does your father, have a gun?" "Then I dare not wait for you." "We'll meet tomorrow at the southernmost tip." "Wait, mother Akka!" "I want you to know something." "I'm sad not to become human again, but I'd rather be friends with you." "Is there no alternative?" "A lame horse?" "No, it's probably more merciful to shoot him." "Nils will never forgive us." "Hey... we mustn't get carried away." "What's wrong with your leg?" "What on earth!" "Is there something written here?" ""Remove the iron from the foot."" "Remove the iron from the foot...?" "Who could have written it?" "There's something sharp in there!" "This was my place and it contains a trough which is always filled with oats." "There's enough for us all." "Marten, let's go out again." "No, come on." "It tastes good and it's not the least bit dangerous." "Come and you will see what a nice haul!" "Marten is back with seven wild geese." "And tomorrow is St. Martin's." "We'll slaughter them tonight so we have time to go to market tomorrow." "They'll make good money." "Our luck has turned." "I know what ails the horse as well." "Marten!" "Nils!" "Help!" "Come and help!" "Nils!" "Help!" "Mother!" "You mustn't hurt the goose!" "Mother!" "Nils!" "Nils..." "Won't you come in?" "I think you've grown." "I'm human again!" "Marten..." "Mother Akka!" "Mother Akka!" "Mother Akka!" "Don't you see?" "I'm right here!" "Mother Akka..." "What are you saying?" "I don't understand!" "I don't understand..." "Mother Akka!"