Sorry, don’t know what they translated to that (read it in Swedish)… sounds like a trust left by parents or other… Michael had a trust of ‘saved moneys’…??

Posted by KJ in Cinci ,

I’d regard it as being “moral capital” in English, ie the thing that enables others to trust them

Posted by Alex in North Yorkshire ,

I think Alex is right about the meaning of the word. The translation is a bit, hm, challenging at times but I have been told by the translator that there has been at least one dispute between the translator (from the US) and his editor (from Scotland) about a particular sentence (“Lisbeth, you damned troublesome person/”Lisbeth, you’re a real pain in the a**”). So I could imagine there would be many more instances of that. Translation, especially in such a business, where there are many ‘cooks in the kitchen’ is probably not a straight forward chore. Furthermore you have some idiomatic expressions in Swedish that do not lend themselves easily to direct translation.

Posted by chris from sallysfriends.net in Copenhagen ,