On this day in 1397 – the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Eric of Pomerania.
On this day in 1397 – the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Eric of Pomerania.
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The Kalmar Union (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish: *Kalmarunionen*; Finnish: *Kalmarin unioni*) was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden, that from 1397 to 1523 joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of
* Denmark,
* Sweden (then including most of present-day Finland),
* and Norway, together with Norway’s overseas colonies (then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland).
And Pomerania is entirely outside all of those countries because that’s how medieval high nobility rolls, deal with it peasant.
The sphere of influence of the Danish kings is at that time even larger than today’s Denmark. With the Treaty of Ripen 1460, for example, Schleswig and Holstein, today southern Denmark northern Germany, come to Denmark in personal union.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ribe
The Russian one is already the flag of the Faroe Islands.
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Sweden really had to go out of their way to ruin a perfectly good thing smh
Fränce = Icland?
Very similar to St David’s flg, which is a flag used to represent Wales, but not the official Welsh flag.
What do you say, Nordic brothers and sisters, time for a Reunion maybe?
Its been 500 years, time to give it another go I reckon