New Nordic

4 months ago #9617322          

I... I've got something in my eye...

10 months ago #9542318          

“nod nod“ xD

1 year ago #9506116          

All of Scotland's regional flags are nordic crosses but I would vote for the unofficial Highland flag to become our flag if we joined Norden. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Highlands_of_Scotland.svg

1 year ago #9506660          

@Jonny_Anonymous I like the design. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't already attached to the Saltire. Would we even need a new flag if that happened?

1 year ago #9508861          

@stewy497 Need, no... but I guess it would be something of an added middle finger to the English ("We don't want to be with you SO much that anything you touched, including our flag, which you squeezed into your Union Jack, is now anathema to us"). I know most of my friends who were active on the Yes campaign would LOVE that idea. lol

Plus, yeah, it has the added value of being a way of fitting in better with the rest of the new gang.

I didn't even know you HAD that flag. It's Preeeeeeeeeeety! <3

11 months ago #9524875          

@Jonny_Anonymous I am scottish and like the union. But Its acc a decent flag except the green bit looks a bit out of place on the flag idk though we could use the flag of the Shetland islands

1 year ago #9452381          

Come oooooon, Scotland! We want you! \;__________;/

6 months ago #9583880          

Forever alone.
I feel bad for Estonia

9 months ago #9556135          

I wouldn't mind being part of the Nordic club... But I don't know if would work out, economically and such like. Ye ken whit a mean? (sniggers)

6 months ago #9589964          

@ScottishHetalianCat All you have to do is take the oil with you when you come on over, it's worked wonders for us

6 months ago #9593537          

@MiraTell Wish we could, but England and America stole most of it

3 months ago #9623706          

@ScottishHetalianCat Aw, that's too bad!! That almost happened to us Norwegians as well, we were just lucky with some rules we had about nature resurses. That people could rent Norwegian nature, but after a time, it would automatically go back to being Norwegian. If that hadn't happened, America would most likely get their hands on our oil, and then we'd just remain poor I'd guess.

1 year ago #9495544          

Can we get Northern Ireland and Scotland to join together with Ireland to become The Celts?

11 months ago #9524067          

@DawnPhoenix #9495544
I agree with this with all my heart and soul. And it has been a proposed theory here XD
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-three-state-union-may-be-answer-to-brexit-1.2734041

1 year ago #9463539          

Even Finland!
It would be strange with another country in Norden, but if any country would join, it would make sense if it was Scotland. So, Welcome, I say. Sorry, Estonia, we're not interested in you! ;) You'll have to wait and try to make some history together with us like Scotland has done.

1 year ago #9468989          

@Swedishbooks
I have nothing against the scots, but it is a bit weird for a swede to claim having had more in common with the scots than with the finnics.

1 year ago #9469971          

@ThorsomeTarmukas Okay, we might have a lot of history with Estonia. I've got no idea. In fact, I've heard a little about our history with the Scots (but mostly Britain over all) but I've actually not read anything about the Baltics except in geography-classes and that was about... geography. Not history. So if I was wrong you'll have to excuse me. I've got no knowledge about such things because I can't remember ever having read about it in school and haven't even thought about - or been interested in - looking up it in private.

1 year ago #9469978          

@Swedishbooks
The first thing is to remember that baltic-finnics are not just finns in Finland and estonians in Estonia. We are one (the other) side of the Vanir and the Aesir (but which of the two, that is debatable).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitted_Ware_culture#Language

As the language left no records, its linguistic affiliations are uncertain. It has been suggested that its people spoke a language related to the Uralic languages and provided the unique linguistic features discussed in the Germanic substrate hypothesis.[citation needed]

Some linguists speculate that estonians used to speak germanic in the bronze age or even early iron age and only later switched to finnic. I suspect that the main contact zone between the finnics and germanics was in Sweden and the main contact zone between the finnics and balts was in Prussia.

Estonians and finns also share the Thor / Taara / Torum belief, although it is a bit different here. It is not a germanic thing at all, it even spans to Siberia.
And the island of Odensholm lies in the coastal water of Estonia, at the rim of the Neugrund meteorite crater. The estonian toponym is Osmussaar, possibly derived from Osuma+saar (impact island). Signs of Odin have been found at the Karja church (Karja triskele) near the Kaali meteorite crater. Since Estonia has been hit by more meteorites per km2 during the holocene than any other country in the world, old estonians probably figured out how to spot earlier impact craters based on the brecchia stones that the glaciers have smeared around, but which still point at the Neugrund meteorite crater. Odin (Neugrund near Odensholm) was the first and largest known meteorite impact site in the neighbourhood. And Kaali meteorite impact was the act of Thor.
Edit. And Perkunas was the minor impact site at the Ilumetsa Põrguhaud. Põrkunes roughly means "the one that rebounded".

1 year ago #9471497          

@ThorsomeTarmukas
Well, look at that.
You're good at your history, both linguistical and otherwise, I must say. I can say for sure that even though History is my favourite subject (or one of three) I would never be able to say anything about meteorites or glaciers here except that the glaciers formed many of our cliffs and such and that we've probably been hit my a meteore at least a few times. But I've got no idea, maybe we haven't.

I'm impressed.

1 year ago #9471550          

@Swedishbooks
Vanir could be a twist from Väina+maised (Väinä+möinen / Väinä+möiset). Väin means "a strait". Väina+meri is a strait sea in and around West Estonian archipelago. Väina river is the old livonian name for the river Daugava in Latvia. But more broadly, Väina+meri might have denoted the whole Baltic Ice Lake, which at one (or several) point was a strait between the North Sea and the White sea. And when the glaciers were still plentiful, then the rivers Väina and Viena might have flowed at the rim of the BaltoScandian glacier. And the river that led to Toonela might have been a river that went under the glacier.

1 year ago #9469972          

@ThorsomeTarmukas But you maybe could tell me? I'm always open for new knowledge.

11 months ago #9530557          

@Swedishbooks Eh, ''wait and try to make some history together with us''? Dude they were a part of our country for the longest time. And I have never really understood why we should not let them be a part of ''Norden''. They sure have a lot in common with us...

9 months ago #9546577          

@leiah2 So true.

2 years ago #9411580          

Don't cry Estonia in my story, which takes place in 26th century, you end up becoming a Nordic.

2 years ago #9389279          

Eesti can into nordic?