með lögum skal land byggja
I was following an Iceland police (lögregla) truck on the way home today and noticed that inscribed around the circumference of the police shield is a motto - með lögum skal land byggja - with law shall a country build.
It filled me with Icelandic pride as I thought of Viking chieftains assembling on the plains of Þingvellir in 930 A.D. for what became the world's first representative government. It is really an amazing land and culture they and their descendants have built.
It filled me with Icelandic pride as I thought of Viking chieftains assembling on the plains of Þingvellir in 930 A.D. for what became the world's first representative government. It is really an amazing land and culture they and their descendants have built.
posted by JB at 9.6.05
1 Comments:
It´s definitely better than a certain other motto we love to hate....
"Öruggur staður til að vera á"
not sure that one fills me with Icelandic pride!
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