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National Day of Sweden 2019.

Jun 6, 2019 11:54AM PDT

National Day of Sweden, hooray!

But why do they dis the Danish? (image from Imgur.com)

Even Austin Powers seems to give them a dig once in a while.

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Maybe this?
Jun 6, 2019 12:02PM PDT
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Great find. Thank you.
Jun 6, 2019 2:03PM PDT

That Messerschmidt. Zooms right in on the target.

I can add some bits.
We often hear of the fierce Vikings and think of Sweden. (Vik is Swedish for bay; fjord is the Swedish for ... umm ... fjord, or inlet.) In fact, the Danes gave England the biggest problems, hence the English Danegeld (tribute) and Danelaw of Alfred's time.
For a long time Norway was subject to Denmark, to the point that the langiage was called Dano-Norwegian. (One of our own first Bibles after English was in that language, in the 1890s.) A Norwegian writer was so popular in a 'purified' language that it took over only in the last century. Like Luther's Bible in 'modern' German, or Shakespeare in modern English.

Gotta see this, techies.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/bluetooth-why-modern-tech-named-after-powerful-king-denmark-and-norway-007398
I had a Norwegian FES in school who didn't know this. Also that blue and black were the same word in old Norway. It's likely that he had merely a discolored "black" tooth. I also used to point out the meaning of the 70s Show character's name.

But I digress. Harald was a common name for Norway's kings; many think it's derived from the terms powerful and leader, or some such. (From the link) The last was the one who was late to Duke William's party at Pevensey. We all could be speaking Anglo-Saxon still. In that case the four letter word for excrement would be the nine letter e********.

Ain't history fun?

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I wonder if the music of Victor Borge is banned
Jun 7, 2019 2:31AM PDT

in Sweden. The man was pure genius. Perhaps a Borge fan club lies underground in Stockholm. Happy

Speaking of Vikings, I've also read that their pillaging of Ireland and such was not to bring back treasures to their homeland but to find new places to live due to population growth and lack of a "Vittles for All" policy.

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Ireland has better farming, for sure.
Jun 7, 2019 5:27AM PDT

Don't recall much about Vikings there. Mostly the west and south coasts of Britain.
Alfred would defeat them, baptize them and make them swear off pillaging their Christian brothers. Couple years later they would be back, lapsed. Repeat.
Their worst damage, from the modern view, was destroying the monasteries. Trashed the books that historians could use today.


Miles Davis wrote Dear Old Stockholm, which became a standard.

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Red haired Irish
Jun 7, 2019 8:56AM PDT

I understand that the gene didn't originate with them. Vikings would pillage to buy supplies as they made their way around the western coast. The gold work found in the monasteries was a prize catch. You can't eat it but you can trade it. Somewhere I read that the Dublin area was settled by Vikings...many of whom brought their families with them. So, when we see an Irish man or woman with red in their hair, it has likely been tainted Scandinavian Vikings. The puzzle to me is why we think of most Scandinavians as being fair skinned and blond? At least we got some good stories out of the era...be they true or not.

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addendum
Jun 7, 2019 2:53AM PDT

Since you mentioned "Harold", I think the derivation of names is also an interesting topic...much more so than the legitimacy of Trump's presidency. Devil

Harold has both noun and verb forms. Never mind that the spelling differs as the sound is the same. I suppose in old tribal communities it was easy enough to call out a name and have only one head turn. That became more difficult as the need for unique appellations grew.

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(NT) Ya you betcha.
Jun 6, 2019 2:05PM PDT