The North Chapter 65

Why is there 3 nations in Scandinavia instead of one? Are not the Norwegians, Danish, and Swedish one people? No, there is 3 different people in Scandinavia, not one. As early as time this has been so, not only because we have three ancestors, the Norwegian Sæmning, the Danish Skjold and the Swedish Yngve-Frey, but because of geographical reasons too.

Denmark is separated from Norway and Sweden by an ocean, and it is entirely different in nature than in Norway and Sweden. Denmark is warmer, it is flat, and the population live on islands. Sweden is made up of little mountains, many rivers and a lot of forests, while Norway – including Idre and Sarna, Jamtland and Harjedalen which is the only decent mountain range in today's Sweden – consists of high mountains, fjords and deep valleys.

In Norway we have always lived in small places spread out over the coast, while the population in Sweden and Denmark always have been more concentrated. In the Viking times the Danes and Swedes lived mainly in towns, while the Norwegians lived on farms. The people became as the nature around them. The toughest conditions we Norwegians had, and we have always learned to be able to stand alone, each farm was hard to manage yourself. This has made us strong individuals. While the Danish and Swedish could sail along the coast and only over short open distances on the sea, we Norwegians were able to learn to navigate to our destination. Norwegians were able to live on a windswept farm by the border between the ocean and a high mountain. In Sweden they had cities protected by the forest around all sides, with only a river as the ships nearest route. It is sad to think about, but maybe it is therefore the Swedish who are so afraid to be in a struggle today, afraid to come out of the safe and secure forest?

The Danish had no tougher sea than the Swedish, with much friendlier natural forces than us Norwegians, but on the other hand the warrior neighbor - Germany. Little Denmark has always had to fight with Germany, and it was not before Denmark finally fell that the rest of the north could be jewified by the christians, that Norway and Sweden fell also. Denmark was our shield against the jew power, something which passes well with the name of their ancestors. This has made the Danish a strong people, all the conflict with the people in the south through the years. I think it's very sad to look at Sweden and the Swedish, what cowards they have become through the years, once important Vikings, now cowards. Their state's leader has often gone out and said if Norway, Finland, or Denmark is attacked by a foreign nation, Sweden will not grip the sword to help us. I fell betrayed, here I go and think if the Nordic lands are attacked by others I will recruit myself in defense of this land here and also Sweden.

What do I get for these noble thoughts? I get to read in the papers that Sweden doesn't act to help Norway if someone attacks it. I am ashamed of my little drops of Swedish blood, 1st they went in the EU, now this, what next? I strongly hope that the Swedish make themselves worthy again to sit at the table with us Norwegians and Danish (also the Icelandic). There is also, so to speak worthy Swedish, but only a few of them, have you ever met a Swedish war hero, or even heard about one? The Danish have for a long time disliked the Swedish. A Dane I met in prison used to stand by the ferry station when the boat from Sweden arrived and waited to beat up some Swedes – only because they were Swedish.

The Norwegians are some that the Danish however, like well. For example, while the Danish fell in just a few hours, Norway stood against the German attack for many months before she was captured, this has given us respect in Denmark. The epic follows accordingly about Norwegians. This can be read how natural it is, for example spoken about a ski contest where the hero is on skis downhill and ends up down the ocean coast, how can this be any other than a Norwegian? All the Nordic lands have a tendency to place the hero in their own homeland, but it's clear that most of them are Norwegian. There is not so many mountains to ski down in Denmark for example, or in what was once Sweden. But certainly there are many heroes from both Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. Especially in Germany, like chief Arminius (lived from 18 before the start of the christian era to 19 after the start of the christian era) who crushed the roman army, "Publius Quintilius Varus" in a battle in the Teutoburg forest in the year 9, here he crushed the Cherusci family, 3 roman legions. Then offered them to Wotan by hanging them in trees after the battle was over. This stopped the roman advancement in Germania by the Rhine. Arminius is actually a Roman name, he is really called Hermann. There are many german heroes, heathen heroes!