Word: bjorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Decorations and medals are humbug", announces Professor Rasmus Bjorn Anderson of the University of Wisconsin as he refuses the Cross of St. Olaf offered him by the King of Norway for his researches in Norwegian literature. Unlike the subject of Browning's verse he sees little glory attached to a "riband to stick in his coat", when voicing the independence of the West and the freedom of the true scholar, he scorns the tinseled tribute of royal appreciation...