A return from vikings and trolls

[dunners]

Norwegians invented the cheese-slicer as well as the paper-clip. Most that you meet in this water, mountain and tunnel filled country will divulge these and countless other facts in your direction making you feel several ambiguous things:

. like a tourist
(which, of course I was)
. uneducated
(which, of course I am fairly)
. overwhelmed
(usually am)
. itsy-bitsy
(yup the world is small the universe of time large)

There also seems to be an overall fascination with:

. alchohol
. singing
. singing in English
. Iceland
. anything traditionally Norwegian
. dressing entirely on demin
. madonna (of the 80's not the mother of christ) like layers
. meat: baked - broiled - fried - smoked - dried, or any combination of these will do
. proclaiming in perfect English to be bad a speaking English
. big boats
. money
. taxes
. politics
(of course, in a social democracy this is understandable)
. anyone from Norway doing anything outside of Norway