I am now Belgian… As a Norwegian we ended up with the northern wastelans. But at least Sweden really got fucked. Now if Denmark got just as fucked I could get behind this
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Frostbeard@lemmy.worldto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•The difference between Constantinople, City of Istanbul, and Istanbul1·4 months agoThe word gard still also means fence in Norwegian. Still in use i the words “Skigard” (using the original meaning of the word ski as wood split lengthwise) and “steingard”.
Also in the word “manngard” as a line of people moving forward when searching for something or someone.
It also means the word gård.
Frostbeard@lemmy.worldto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•The difference between Constantinople, City of Istanbul, and Istanbul9·4 months agoIt’s Miklagard (old Norse name for the city)
"Gard"means wall/fence and is incidentally where you get gorod in Russian/Slavic languages I think.
We used to call that Pasta Rouge in what just now realize is plain wrong. Should be Pasta Rosso