Enige og tro inntil Dovre faller

Enige og tro inntil Dovre faller (“United and loyal until the mountains of Dovre crumble”) is a national motto of Norway.

It derives from a quotation of the Constitutional fathers in the 1814 Eidsvoll oath.

The oath was taken as a pledge after the negotiations at the National Assembly in Eidsvoll concluded on May 20, 1814.

According to Nicolai Wergeland, a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly, the representatives joined arms and formed a chain of brotherhood, upon which they shouted, “United and loyal until the mountains of Dovre crumble”.

The words have since been repeated in Norwegian politics and culture as a slogan for national patriotism, independence, unity, and democracy, including during the nation-building period in the 19th century and the dissolution of the union with Sweden in 1905.