English Translation
I knew her the instant I saw her.
Bad translation. ‘Kände igen’ means to ‘recognize’, not to ‘know’.
Wiktionary has recognize as one meaning of know:
9 (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
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Another Danish/Swedish mixup on my behalf. I should have seen that the Danish word ‘genkende’ is the same as ‘känna igen’ in Swedish.