Note 5 — Chapter IV
M. R. (Mordaunt Roger) Barnard translation
Yet when that enterprise had been carried to a successful issue, and that same lunatic had become a great man and asked the government and the storthing5 for a grant of 200,000 kroner ($54,000) for his second mad expedition, his request was promptly granted. A new Norway had grown up meanwhile, a new national spirit had forced its way into existence, a living testimony to the power of the Nansen expedition.