Translation Trouble

[Olaf Solstrand]

Hi!
Can you help me find the English words for some characters?

In the weekly, we sometimes can read a Kari Korhonen-comic which in Norway 
has the title "Donald Rakker-Duck". These are stories about Donald's 
childhood at Grandma's farm.

What's the name of these stories in English (American)? "Rakker" is a 
Norwegian word, so I guess that is replaced with something else...

In this comic, he also has some friends. And they're not Gyro or Mickey or 
Goofy or Gladstone, but brand new figures only used by Kari. What are their 
names?
I'm thinking of:
- Donald's best friend, "Ronny" in Norwegian, which Donald loves to play 
sheriff with. His father is a shop-owner.
- Donald's and "Ronny"'s female friend, "Pia" in Norwegian, a bright girl 
which I think Donald has a little crush on... Her mother owns a cafeteria on 
a boat.
- The big bully often mobbing Donald (as someone just said "mob" is not the 
right word, but...), "Kjartan" or "Kjakan" (I'm not 100% sure of the 
Norwegian name either here...)
- And, if you know it, the name of Grandma's neighbor. Thanks!

(Although I love Barks, I'm not 100% barksist. Kari Korhonen is one of my 
favourites, behind Don Rosa... As a script writer, of course, I don't think 
he is a too good drawer. I would say he draws ducks in the same way that 
Noel Van Horn draws mice...)

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And now, a question for you barksists; In the hypnotizer gun story, where 
Donald is hypnotized by that toy gun, he goes to get some money from a big 
bully. What's HIS name in English / American? In Norway it was Sterke-Jens 
or Sterke-Lars, I'm not 100% sure. ("sterk" means strong, Jens/Lars is a 
typical Norwegian first name)

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BTW:
In the Donald strips in the Norwegian weekly magazine "Hjemmet", I often 
reacted that they called Donald's girlfriend Dolly "Daisy". Now I've 
realized that Daisy IS the original name. When you've always heard "Dolly" 
used, "Daisy" seems strange! I don't know why Hjemmet used another 
translation than the "official" Norwegian word "Dolly", but it was really 
weird to understand that they actually was right.

Where did the word "Dolly" come from? Maybe it has the same origin as from 
the Aqua song "Barbie Girl":

"I'm a blonde little girl, in my fantasy world
Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly"

:) :) :) :) :) :) :)

-olaf- ( http://home.no.net/treaa/ )
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