Hard to get the better of any Norwegian
Richard F. Pendleton Niantic
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David Brook's column titled "Hard and soft of the Norwegians," published March 3, was riveting and reminded me of a saying I heard many years ago from a Norwegian I knew: "Ten-thousand Swedes crawling through the reeds could not beat one drunk Norwegian."
Slightly apocryphal, but if you substitute "Nazi" for "Swede," you get the idea.
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Hard to get the better of any Norwegian
David Brook's column titled "Hard and soft of the Norwegians," published March 3, was riveting and reminded me of a saying I heard many years ago from a Norwegian I knew: "Ten-thousand Swedes craw...
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