The Julekalender - Characters

Characters

• Oluf Sand (Viggo Sommer) is a farmer who lives on a farm in Jutland, who farms with potatoes. He has a wife named Gertrud who lives along with him. He is very silent, likes reading the newspaper in his armchair while smoking with his smoking pipe. He often receives a call from someone (possibly the same all the time) who wants to buy potatoes, to which Oluf often increases the price and says a receipt is no use. He often compliments that the quiet when Gertrud leaves, often breaking the fourth wall, but when Benny Jensen insults her he is very quick to protect her. His Christmas wishes, according to Gertrud, never seems to be renewed, meaning that he wishes for a smoking pipe, tobacco or a pipe-cleaner. He has a father named Anders Sand, which Benny think is funny, mixing him with Anders And. He secretly saves money enough to buy a foodprocessor for Gertrud, but tells her that they can't afford it. For Christmas he receives a smoking pipe from Gertrud.
• Gertrud Sand (Carsten Knudsen) is a farmer who lives on a farm in Jutland, who farms with potatoes. She has a husband named Oluf who lives along with her. She is very loud, often talking non-stop about how nice everything would be if this and that etc. She spends the entire series asking for the big crate with Christmas stuff. She also spends most episodes talking about her wish for a foodprocessor, but is told that they can't afford it. When Oluf doesn't listen to what she says she shakes her head, while breaking the fourth wall. When Oluf talks in the telephone about his potato-selling, Gertrud is told that it was wrong number when she asks. When she accidentally gives The Book away to some scouts for charity, she is confronted by Benny Jensen who screams and yells at her. She has a sister (known simply as Sister) and a brother-in-law named Kaj. When her sister calls her on the telephone she can talk for hours. She likes to listen to the radio. For Christmas she receives a foodprocessor from Oluf.
• Benny Jensen (Uffe Rørbæk Madsen) is a nåsåer who has taken the appearance of a human and visits the Sands. He claims that his car has run out of petrol, soon punctures, later breaks down completely, and then gets stolen, supposedly by the "Polish Mafia" (which is doubtful), and he comes to live with the farmers for the rest of the series, searching for nisse-life. He soon finds out about a cave in which three nisser lives in and spends the rest of the series making excuses to leave in order to find the cave. When he finally manages to make his way inside, knock out Günther, the youngest nisse, and steal The Big Book. After that he spends all the time reading the book at Sands, making the life a menace to the humans and the nisser. He angers when the book disappears, yelling at Gertrud. He gets pressed into taking alcohol when he claims it's his birthday and after that he can't stop it again. He never manages, however being close, to kill the nisser. For Christmas he receives a book about nisser from Oluf and Gertrud, having made many nisse-related references.