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I’d wager that it’s a reference to the old Swedish name for the Pacific Ocean and not Södermalm.
by nnnnnande 3y ago
I’d wager that it’s a reference to the old Swedish name for the Pacific Ocean and not Södermalm.
- INTPenis 3y agoPippi i Söderhavet are my favorite old records from childhood. :)
- thomashabets2 3y agoSöderhavet is the Pacific? But that makes no sense, geographically!
- zgluck 3y agoBeing an early adopter sucks. In the early 16th century, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and sighted the great "Southern Sea" which he named Mar del Sur (in Spanish). Afterwards, the ocean's current name was coined by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish circumnavigation of the world in 1521, as he encountered favorable winds on reaching the ocean. He called it Mar Pacífico, which in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian means 'peaceful sea'. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean#Etymology)
- scbrg 3y agoWell, in order to preserve inaccurate silliness we did start calling it Stilla Havet instead ;) (transl: The Calm Ocean)
- smcl 3y agoIt's similar in Czech, "tichý oceán" - quiet ocean.
- TravelPiglet 3y agoTranslation: the Pacific Ocean
- yencabulator 3y ago"Southern sea" sounds reasonable from the viewpoint of early Nordic seafarers. Based on a quick glance of the map, all of the Atlantic is south of Sweden.