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Show All the Men Are Princes. There arc about 12,000 people scattered scat-tered over the twenty-odd rocks or Islets which constitute the Foroe group, between the Slictlands and Iceland. Every man in the country is in some way the descendant of a king that is. Norse sea-kings, who fled to the islands in the ninth century cen-tury and peopled thorn. In spite of his home spuns, his turf hut, and his primitive life, every good Foroese is conscious and proud of his ancestry, ami he boars himself like a prince. He has no newspapers or social problems; but he knows the history of his island home, and he is a constant reader of books, mostly Danish. His literary taste is inferior only to that of the Icelanders, who for 1,000 years have raised and maintained main-tained an ideal national literature of merit. |