Subject: Millennium

3. Castelul din nori s-a sfărâmat

What does "s-a" stand for ? Is it a word or an abbreviation ?

S-a sfărâmat c'est le passé composé du verbe a se sfărâma - s'écrouler. S dénote la diathèse réflexive, a c'est le verbe auxiliaire avoir au présent, sfărâmat c'est le participe passé du verbe principal.

Comme on voit, en Roumain on forme le passé composé des verbes réflexifs à l'aide de l'auxiliaire avoir et pas être, comme on le fait en Français.

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Thanks a lot for these extended and exhaustive grammatical explanations ;)

Welcome :P

Formerly we used the apostrophe too, like in French, in order to separate different grammatical parts in a sentence. But after the reform (I do not remember when exactly) it was changed with hyphen "-".

That's why s-a and not s'a. However it's recently been noticed a tendency to write with apostrophe, especially among young people :D

Care to explain in English for us who don't speak French?

S-a sfărâmat (3rd person singular) it is the past tense of the verb a se sfărâma - to crumble. S denotes the reflexive diathesis, a it is the auxiliary verb to have (3rd person singular) present tense, sfărâmat it is the past participle of the main verb.
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Some dude's playing with my message :P

I'm amazed at how the tiltes change completely from one language to another. What would it be a literal translation of the swedish names to english?

Guess they used Google-translate :)

The literal translation would be something like this:
1. Men who hate women
2. The girl who played with the fire
3. The air castle that was blown up

I guess a little explanation is needed. To play with fire means doing something that can be dangerous. An air castle is an unrealistic dream or hope.