The thistle is the emblem of Scotland as a barefoot viking raider cried out in pain as he stood on one, alerting the Scottish army encampment that the Norse army were sneaking up on.
Simo Häyhä was a Finnish sniper in WWII who, with over 700 kills in 105 days, can be thought of as the most deadly human in history. The Russians refered to him as The White Death.
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However I know one Norwegian woman (friend of my mom's) and her sister (who is only a year or two older than me) and both of them are tall, slender, with long straight blond hair. (And both are almost painfully nice.)
What's up with that?