Time for a deep dive on Norway, our new Winter Olympic overlords

Or wait… is that Denmark?

It might be Denmark. I don’t really know. Mermaids are the property of the world, I think. And the world is now the property of Norway.

Hans Christian Andersen was Danish, which is not Norway, but it’s pretty geographically close. He wrote The Little Mermaid, a story based on the Disney movie of the same name, as we learn in America. The tale goes that a young mermaid with red hair wants to sing a song to a prince and make him fall in love (any similarity to sirens is strictly coincidental), but then a mean octopus steals her voice until a crab with a put-on Caribbean accent saves the day with a sonorous sound of his own.

There’s even a statue in Copenhagen, Denmark that according to history, as written by the winners, Norway dedicated to the tale. That’s pretty cool.

However, it’s unclear if this is something that could be attributed to classic Norway or the New World Order of Norway. (Nor Wayrld Order is being workshopped, but I don’t think it will catch on.)

So let’s try a different mythical creature. Dragons, baby. The movie How To Train Your Dragon focused on some Vikings living with and eventually training dangerous sky-lizards and taking on the world about them. In Game of Thrones, it took a once-in-a-thousand-years woman in Daenerys Targaryen to wake them from their historical slumber.

With this performance from Norway at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic games, I think it’s safe to assume one of them has the character and charisma to raise dragons once more. Are we prepared for this? Probably not, but it’s good to know it’s coming.