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I copied the subtitles here if anyone prefers to read the transcript:

https://ghostbin.com/tjYA8/raw

(Somewhat amusingly, Pastebin refused to accept it due to "objectionable content")



Unfortunately the translation is not quite perfect. Hilarious bit, when he talks about the opera A life for the Czar:[1] "...for the Tsar to be saved from the gut..." No, from a swamp, I would think. (Unless it was the Biblical Czar Jonah?) Understandable, though: The Finnish for "swamp" is "suo"; for "gut", "suoli". Due to the agglutineration(?) Finnish grammar is based on, "a bit of gut, some entrails" becomes "suol-ta", while "from [a|the] swamp" becomes "suo-lta". Both of course spelled without the hyphen I put in here for illustrative purposes, and "suolta" pronounced identically in both cases. But still, which would a Czar need saving from -- a swamp, or someone's gut?!?

So, TL;DR: IMO the subtitles are somewhat weak on concluding the correct wording from context.

Oh, and I can't access your link at all. Locked/blocked/taken down? Perhaps there's a time limit on this ghostbin thingy?

[EDIT:] Changed my somewhat un-charitable "the translation is far from perfect" to "not quite": They got "Laiska Jaakko" ("Lazy Jacob"[2]) --> "Jacob de la Gardie" right[3], bravo! [/EDIT]

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[1]: https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw?t=1114

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_De_la_Gardie#Death_and_l...

[3]: https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw?t=1553




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