Le Nord : revue internationale des Pays de Nord - 01.06.1939, Blaðsíða 123

CHRONIQUE TRIMESTRIELLE
Let us proclaim her memory
sacred.”
The King’s words were answered
by speaker Hambro in the follow-
ing way:
“Herre Konge (Sire), Your Royal
Highness. The announcement of the
death of Her Majesty the Queen
has been received with deep sad-
ness by our country. And the 87th
ordinary Storting has terminated
íts work to-day in sorrow for the
loss suffered by the Royal Family
and the whole nation.
On the 26th of November, while
we were waiting on the pier in
Oslo for our Queen’s last home-
coming to Norway, our thoughts
quite naturally went back to an
autumnal day 33 years ago when
s° many of us were present under
the walls of Akershus waiting for
the moment when Queen Maud
W[th King Haakon and Crown-
Prince Olav should put foot on
shore in Norway for the first time.
For most of us it was under a
deep impression of historical fulfil-
uient. One third part of a century
bas passed since then, and this feel-
lng has been constantly growing
and has never been more marked
than on the grey and cloudy day
when the Queen came home for the
kst time and was received by the
Pe°ple of Norway with more open
hearts than ever. She was the first
Sueen for more than 500 years that
°ur people could call queen of Nor-
way alone, the first for 575 years
t0 be consigned to the earth of Nor-
way which had come to be so whol-
ly her own.
Those 33 years have seen tre-
mendous vicissitudes in this world;
but for Norway it has been a happy
period; and it seems natural for us
to-day to acknowledge how largely
it is to attribute to the Royal Fa-
mily that these long years have been
an epoch of peace and undisturbed
development for our country; and
in gratitude we remember how fully
and without reserve Queen Maud
made her own the motto of the
King1) and lived it as a matter of
course every day.
To-day we seem to see before our
eyes so many changing pictures of
the Queen; we remember her as
she came on board the “Heimdal”
in 1905; at the coronation in Trond-
hjem in 1906; at the jubilee in
19142); at Stiklestad in 19303); we
remember her in this hall; but may-
be the members of the Storting see
her most clearly at the Royal pa-
lace in Oslo where she has shaken
hands with all of us so often when
she was bidding us welcome — and
we never had the opportunity to
tell her how highly we valued a
tradition she instituted with the
King and which has had its im-
portance for that spirit of co-
operation and toleration that has
*) ”A11 for Norway”,
2) The Constitution of Norway dates
from 1814.
3) King Olav II (St. Olav) was killed in
the battle at Stiklestad on July 29th 1930.
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