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https://aeon.co/ideas/the-hitchhiking-scandinavian-way-to-the-imperial-riches

Scandinavian monarchies in the 17th and 18th centuries endeavored to build empires that would rival the Dutch or even the British, but come the 19th century they sold up the remnants of these overseas ambitions, and largely escaped the administrative responsibility, and moral condemnation, for the age of High Imperialism.

Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen’s excellent edited volume Navigating Colonial Orders (2014) shows how Norwegians used ‘hitchhiking’ to thrive in a world of empires

The Scandinavians are still hitchhiking away. The Danish shipping line A P Moller-Maersk is the largest in the world, moving more than 12 million shipping containers around the globe every year

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5406/scanstud.91.1-2.0001.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A63c58d501a8045a1ab248e185fc80b87

... the Nordic nations’ pursuit of colonial dominion, and their contribution to the colonial efforts of other nations, were routinely written out  of  the  national  histories  of  the  Nordic  countries,  or,  as  described by Fur and Ipsen (Fur 2009) imagined as a marginal and altruistic project.