‘“To Die for King and Country”: Nationalism and the Citizen Subject from a Perspective of War in Three Poems in Runeberg’s Fänrik Ståls sägner,’ adopts a transnational perspective in the analyses to show variations in power relations and point to a hybrid author position (Cohen 1997; Bhabha 1990). Yet, the article argues that the citizen is written in the context of war as a subject of patriotism in peacetime (Foucault 2008). Juxtaposed, the poems make visible ways in which the relation between private and collective, people and army, is regulated. This is how the poems expose ways of forming a ‘citizen subject’, which Ètienne Balibar (2016) claims is the foundation of modern subjectivity itself.