Blink. "Y' 're English?" Or at least 'Jack' seems to imply that, doesn't it? That or American.
Sorry, Jack, he is too baffled to play by this development, at least for the moment. He always thought that the personification of the winter and the northern wind and northern lights and so on would be from the north - northern Finland or Norway or Sweden, maybe Iceland or even Greenland (though now that he thinks about it, Siberia, Alaska and the northern parts of Canada work too, they just weren't on his mental map back then). To have them be English...
He switches to English, the language of movies and the internet coming to him easily. And remembers his manners, because his mother always tells him that it is rude to just stare and not do anything, so he tries his bad to not make a bad first impression. After all he has been wanting to meet this man - boy - almost-adult! (since that is what he himself is, ignore the part where he is talking to a children's story right now) for years.
A hand will be offered, and, picking his words carefully, not wanting to embarrass himself, he asks: "Björn. 's nice t' meet y'."
Swedish->English
Sorry, Jack, he is too baffled to play by this development, at least for the moment. He always thought that the personification of the winter and the northern wind and northern lights and so on would be from the north - northern Finland or Norway or Sweden, maybe Iceland or even Greenland (though now that he thinks about it, Siberia, Alaska and the northern parts of Canada work too, they just weren't on his mental map back then). To have them be English...
He switches to English, the language of movies and the internet coming to him easily. And remembers his manners, because his mother always tells him that it is rude to just stare and not do anything, so he tries his bad to not make a bad first impression. After all he has been wanting to meet this man - boy - almost-adult! (since that is what he himself is, ignore the part where he is talking to a children's story right now) for years.
A hand will be offered, and, picking his words carefully, not wanting to embarrass himself, he asks: "Björn. 's nice t' meet y'."