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-If nothing else, it may suggest that you claimed independence from the wrong colonial power. We'll come over to incorporate you in Greater Norway any day, now

• dbcurtis 10y ago
  I'm thinking you already have a beachhead in Minnesota. But at the time, wasn't Norway a colony of Sweden? Or was it Denmark then? I'm fuzzy on when the switch happened. In any case, if you do take over, at least then we'll be able to get decent lefse in California.
  • lb1lf 10y ago
    First of all - there is no such thing as decent lefse. Back in Viking times, the nation state as we know it today didn't exist - but Norway was under Denmark between 1387 (methinks) and 1814, when we declared independence only to find ourselves handed over to the Swedes as war booty. Then in 1905 we told the Swedes where they could stuff their union. They promptly did.
    • e12e 10y ago
      I'm a little shocked that no one's pointed out that Harald Hårfarge is the name of the king that's credited with making Norway one nation (some bitter people claim this isn't true just because it was made up in the 1300s, some 300 years after Harald died). Fitting that it is the name of the ship that's sent to re-capture Vinland.