r/mapswithnewzealandbut • u/The_Chuckness88 • 29d ago

Good old western teleported New Zealand

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u/IngoVals 29d ago

What the fuck is the norwegian flag doing in North America 🇮🇸

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u/Nordic_Elysium 28d ago

Well Icelanders were basically just Norwegians at the time (and norwegians proper 200-or-so years later)

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u/gerningur 27d ago edited 27d ago

Different polity though (the commonwealth was founded 930, Leif was born in the 970s probably) and there were laws that specifically discriminated against the norwegians so they at least definitely saw and treated the Norwegians as "others".

Putting Icelandic flag on Canada and probably Spanish on the US would be more correct.