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Union of Sweden and Norway 387
mighty deserts and on ice-covered mountains of Tibet,
in want and privation. But he has succeeded in ex-
ploring, mapping, and describing immense regions
before unknown.
CHAPTER XXV
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
A. THE UNION OP SWEDEN AND NORWAY
Nature of the Union. The Union of Sweden and
Norway did not unite them into one nation. Each
country retained its independent national existence.
They only agreed to have the same king, to stand to-
gether as one in all foreign relations, and to support
each other in case of war. Each was to have its own
legislative body and its own system of courts.
The Dissatisfaction of the Nonvegians. The Norwe-
gians soon began to weaken the bonds of the union.
They could not forget that the union had been forced
upon them. That the union with Sweden afforded their
country greater security they cared less for than to
win complete independence. Mutual suspicion arose,
and neither party could fully understand the other.
With each passing year they were brought nearer to
the separation. The chief Norwegian leader in this
agitation was the great nationalist and poet Bjorn-
stjerne Bjornson. He expressed his hatred of the
union in a couplet which may be rendered into English
thus :
"The pact ’neath which we agonize
We hate and we anathematize."
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