Throughout our oldest saga, there is one thing that stands out: the chieftain's thought. Leadership. Trust in a leader, loyalty and sacrifice towards him. We cannot ignore that in our dreams, and these thoughts were strong and alive until the country was "Europeanized", was drawn into the thinking and way of life of a more refined world. Immediately the chieftain's thought slipped away, when self‐interest gained power over the loyalty to leaders and fatherland, then our saga descends into a shadowy valley. But as long as the idea of a chieftain was alive and well, we can confidently turn to our history and rejoice in what our fathers achieved and what they led the country to.
Kristen Lindøe
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