Hello and welcome to a new episode of Legacy.

So we've been talking about Greenland.

In January 2025, Afwa, something quite strange happened to the Danish flag.

For the first time in 500 years and seemingly out of the blue, King Frederick changed the coat of arms.

The coat of arms has four sections.

The old design had one of the four in the bottom left hand corner, depicting an arm, a polar bear, and above it,

three crowns. These crowns are a little bit obsolete. They represent the Kalmar Union,

something I love the Kalmar Union, a personal union of Denmark. You're probably the only

person listening who's heard of the Kalmar Union. Anybody Swedish or Danish will know about it.

The Norwegians always pretend that they don't know, but they all know too, for sure. So instead,

those three crowns are gone, and in their place, we've got a polar bear added in that takes

up a whole section, that represents Greenland.

And the Danish crown has also updated to include the Faroe Islands.

The ram is no longer squeezed in with all the other symbolism around it, but occupies its own quarter.

Why do you think this has been the case, Afro?

Well, it seems like a long overdue redesign,

given that the Kalmar Union hasn't existed since 1523. But unfortunately, it's not because of this

introspection and how can we better represent, you know, more equity with Greenland. It's because

there was a particularly heated exchange between the King of Denmark and one Donald J. Trump.

Trump on Christmas Eve tagged the Ambassador Denmark writing,

For the purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world,

the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of

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