Reintroducing the Kalmar union

Today on the 27th of October 2009 the historian Gunnar Wetterberg propose (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) to reintroduce the Kalmar union (Picture 1, 'Rigens baner' the flag introduced by Eric of Pomerania).

As a supreme regent would be the Danish queen Margarethe II (Picture 2). Well why not? It is clearly better than the Swedish king Carl XVI Gustav.

Upon writing a staggering 66 % of the SvD's readers are positive to the idea.

Personally I would not have any problems letting Finland out of the picture but that would probably be unthinkable for the Swedish (Picture 3, the land area of the original Kalmarunion).

Unfortunately you see can see all kinds of nasty and flamboyant anti-Danish and anti-Scanian sentiments among the Swedish article comments. It is interesting to note that Swedish still can have these open prejudices and get away with it.

I guess the Swedish are still recovering from the Swedish separatist movement in 1523. The day Gustav I took the throne is the basis of the Swedish national day even though large part of Sweden of today was not part of Sweden then.

We can then also combine the Scandinavian languages with one common ortography: Standard Scandinavian.

And they say that Scandinavism as an ideology is dead...

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