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I'm Icelandic and I just learned about this now! To be fair I learned fuck all about pre-20th century US history in school and I've basically just puzzled it together through movies and references online.
I see the alt name for it is something like "bandariska borgarestriden"? Does it mean "borgare" as like in "citizen", " medborgare". Is that the name for a civil war in islandic? And bandarisk relates to a banner/flag?
It's actually "Bandaríska borgarastríðið". "Bandaríkin" is our word for the United States, "borgari" means citizen and "stríð" means war. So yes our word for civil war literally translates to "citizens' war" since all the participants are citizens of the same nation. Hälsningar från en Isländing i Norge
So in bandaríkin, does "band" still have something to do with rope, string or something that "binds"? I'm thinking like "förbund" in swedish. So "united" is replaced with something bound together?
"Band" in this context means united. "Bandalag" means the same as "förbund" in Swedish, so yes you're basically correct.
Cool. Thanks for elaborating.
That goes for most of the world. Why learn about some obscure history that’s not from your own historical path.