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.
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.)
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