Pronouncing Mette-Marit's name

[suturegeisha]

I don't want to start a whole thread on this, but since it concerns Mette-Marit, I thought I could post it here.
I just got back [like, 30 minutes ago >_<] from a week vacation at Walt Disney World in Florida. While there my family went to the Epcot park and had dinner in the Norwegian pavillion's restaurant, Akershus. We were waited on by a very lovely [and handsome ] young man named Espen who was from Kristiansand- which is where Mette-Marit is from. I asked him how to pronounce her name [I never have been sure of that, he told me to say something like "Met-teh Mehr-it"]. He asked me how I knew of her and I told him I was a big fan of royalty [and Norway, too, it's such a beautiful country]. He smiled and said that he used to work as a manager at a department store called HMS in Kristiansand, and that she used to come in there all the time before she met Haakon and he knew her [as a customer] very well. He said that she is "very tall!!!!" and gestured above his head, and since he was easily six feet tall I'm guessing that she must be something of a giantess! He then went on to say that she is a very nice person, but she used to do something a little wierd- he had a co-worker who was very short- "something like your height" : points at me : [I'm 5'2- quite small] who used to wait on MM all the time. And he said there were shelves of sweaters that were kind of near the ceiling. Now, MM could have just reached up and grabbed them, but instead she asked the short girl to get them for her. "How strange, when she is so tall! She couldn't have just grabbed them herself? Ah, oh well. She is a nice girl," he said, and then he went back into the kitchen and got me a little Norwegian flag.
Highly irrelevant, I realize, but I thought it was a very cute story.

Crossposted to my Livejournal.

-Kara-

[Reina]

What a great story! She seems like a very nice, real person. You know I bet she asked that worker to get the clothes off the shelves b/c maybe she did not want to mess the display up or something. I know I get a little nervous touching things in stores.

[norwegianne]

Originally Posted by suturegeisha

I asked him how to pronounce her name [I never have been sure of that, he told me to say something like "Met-teh Mehr-it"].

I'd actually have more of an ah sound on Marit, so it would be Met-teh- Mah-rit
But a sweet story.

[DKgirls]

Originally Posted by norwegianne

I'd actually have more of an ah sound on Marit, so it would be Met-teh- Mah-rit
But a sweet story.

So would we!!! And we have a 2nd cousin called it, so we know it

But nice story!!!! It's always nice when you can talk about stuff like that with others :)

[ceci]

Great story!! Is she really so tall?