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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I kid you not, this is called förgätmigej (förgät mig ej) in Swedish. I was today years old when I found out "förgät" actually is an old word meaning, you guessed it, "forget".

(The common translation for "forget" would be "glöm".)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh "Vergissmeinnicht", beautiful ("vergiss mich nicht", german for "don't forget me")

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In Hungarian it's 'nefelejcs' with the same meaning. Curious what's the origin of this name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It looks like that answer might be lost to time, but the flower has been used to represent "everlasting love and devotion" since the middle ages. source (wikipedia)