Moving along down the path, we find another statue: Henrik Wergeland. Poet, patriot, advocate for Jewish rights,  the “Lincoln of Norway.” He was a resolute anti-royalist, although he later accepted a government job and pension from the King of Norway – hey, a man’s gotta eat. He died at the age of 38 in 1845, and was probably not as thin or handsome as the statue suggests.

Note the upturned cast of his head, as though he Sniffs the Winds of Freedom; pranksters could not resist shimmying up the statue in the summer and placing a cigarette in his mouth.

As you can tell: he used to have a fence.