The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-06-27
CROWN KING AND
QUEEN OF NORWAY
CEREMONY PLAIN AND IMPRESSIVE
Was Expressive of Popularity of the
Royal Pair with Subjects
History of the Royalty.


kon and Queen Maud now rule over the
destinies of the people of Norway by
every right that is within the power
of the people to grant They were
crowned this forenoon.
The royal coach reached the cathe-
dra1 at 11:10 a. m, where the king and
queen were received by the clergy.
When the royal party entered all pres
ent in the cathedral arose and the cere-
monial began Immediately. The com
pletion Of the ceremony of browning
King Haakon was communicated by
two army signallers wigwagging
across the city from the cathedral to
the hill batteries and the bells of all
the city churches began ringing. The
browning of Queen Maud commenced
Immediately afterward. Her majesty.
who is naturally of a timid and retir-
ing disposition, faced the ceremony
bravely. She looked dainty and at
tractive.
The coronation ceremonies were elab
crate and were conducted by the Bish-
op of Trondhjen,. assisted by the lead
ing cabinet ministers and chief justice
OF the supreme court. The ceremonies
were followed by the benediction and
at the conclusion of the proceedings
the president of the storthing called
out: God save the king and queen!
and the whose company TOOK up the
cry.
Trondhjem, the ancient capital of
the kings of Norway may be called the
cradle of the Morse nation. 1t is first
mentioned in history, before there
was a united Norway, in connection
with Harold the Fair Haired, who con-
quered all the petty kings of the Morse
counties and united them into a sim
gle state under his own crown in the
latter part of the ninth century But
1t did not attain first Importance in
the kingdom until Haakon the Good
was crowned there in 935 amid the
joyful acclamations of the people who
had successfully rebelled against the
cruel tyranny Of Erik Blood-axe and
his despotic wife, Queen Gunhild.
Sincet hen all the kings of Norway of
whatever nationality they might be
have had to travel to this far away
city for the ceremony of fnvestture.
The King Haakon of today owes his
name to the first good king of unit
ed and Independent Norway and the
little crown prince becomes the name
sake of his first legitimate successor,
the great Olaf Tryggvesson, who was
crowned ir 995. Up to that time
Trondhjem was less national capital
than the mere stronghold OF an i'm
portant province, but in 996 Olaf Tryg-
gvesson laid the foundation of the
present city, which he then called
Nidaros. 1t is the northermost town
of any Importance in Europe, being
situated in the same latitude as the
south coast of Iceland. but it has a
strongly temperate climate. While
Christiania Fjord and all the rivers
in the southern part of Norway become
solidly frozen during the winter, the
River Mid rarely freezes over and the
beautiful Trondhjem Fjord never. The
climate is like that of middle Germany
In winter and much like that of the
coast of Oregon in summer. Hence
the luxurious vegetation and the re-
sultant prosperity of the people.
King Haakon the Good is distin-
guished as being the first Christian
sovereign of Norway. He was sent by
has father to England in his child
hood and there he became a convert
" Liz ldltu anu WAS OdptlZcu. OpOH
his return to Norway and his Access
sion to his fathers throne he did not
dare to Immediately attack the ancient
Asa faith which had so many fanatical
adherents among his closest friends
SO he temporized for some sixteen
years or more until he had won such
unbounded popularity as seemed to
warrant his taking steps toward the
realization of the wish nearest his
heart-the Christianization of his
people. He began we'll but he did not
possess the cruelty Of zeal that was
necessary for the accomplishment Of
such a task in that age. so he only
succeeded in opening the way for his
more vigorous successor. Olaf Tryg-
gvesson. who introduced the fire and
sword into the fight with a great
measure of success. But even he failed
to completely eradicate paganism from
the national heart. and 1t was only at
ter his successor. by his wife. and
more particularly by his death had
appealed to the ready imagination OF
the Norsemen that Christianity really
became the established religion Of the
country. This great missionary was
King Olaf Haroldson. who was after
ward canonized as St. Olaf and over
whose sacred remains the great ca
thedral in Trondhjem arose. This ca
thedral is the proudest historical
monument in Norway and the finest
church in all Scandinavia. st. Olaf
was killed at the religious battle of
Stiklestad in 1880 and his son and sue
cessor. Magnus the Good. brought his
body to Trondhjem and placed it in a
magnificent sarcophagus on the high
altar of st. clements church. where
1t became an object of devout Pilgrim
ages from all over the country.
Eventually the cathedral and some
fifteen or twenty other churches were
built upon the strength of the faith
he had created. and even in protestant
Norway today his name Is revered
above all others. In 1851 Trondhjem
was erected into an archbishopric and
n new impulse was given to ecclesi-
astical building enterprise. At this
time the great Archbishop EPSTEIN. the
third of Trondhjem. quarreled with the
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