Speech in Oslo, January 14, 1941: With our banners comes victory!

By Thorvald Thronsen.

My leader! Hirdmen!

Our leader encourages us to join the Waffen SS. Thus he calls us to active struggle against the world's enemy No. 1 - the English islanders. 

We are grateful to our leader and the chief of the Hird. We will prove ourselves worthy fighters. We are fighting idealists. We more than anyone else love our people with all our hearts. We see that the great future of our fatherland is in the great Germanic confederation that is now being founded. 

We will lead the way, shoulder to shoulder with our Germanic brothers in the Waffen SS. Regemente Nordland is named after its place in the great Germanic Union. Its banner shall wave before us, when the time of the destruction of the world's enemy is at hand. This regiment is the first real practical realization of the great Germanic thought, that as equal members of a great Germanic Union, we have again regained our honor in arms, and honor in arms is the concept, the real freedom of the people.

Our struggle and our efforts are voluntary, no power forces us to do it, but the belief that we are thereby laying the foundation for a new, free and Germanic Norway brings with it a great inner obligation, and we want to prove ourselves worthy of that honor.

Hirdmen! The time has come. The slogan reads: Voluntary forward! With our banners comes victory!