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> As Norway has become progressively richer these jokes in Sweden about Norwgians have more or less disappeared however.

Yeah, the prevailing notion in Sweden is now that Norway is so much better off that we swedes should declare war on Norway.

After which we promptly surrender, and all our problems become Norway's problems instead.

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Similar jokes were made when the outlook for a Swedish NATO ascension was bad. The much more cool-headed and diplomatically grounded Finns were set to join NATO without trouble. So the solution was obvious: Sweden should join Finland instead of NATO.

Relevant context is that Norway was the junior partner of a personal union with Sweden for most of the nineteenth century and until 1905. Also Sweden and Finland was one and the same realm for six centuries or so until 1809.

also some other Scandinavians captured and sold Finns as slaves until about 1100.. some things are hard to forget once known widely

Yeah, but Lithuanians were the biggest slave traders on the Baltic sea up until until Christianity was widely adopted in the 15th century

aha - that puts a different light on the Prussian Northern Crusades right there.. interesting

addend - Lithuanian king Mendog was christianized in 1250

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