* CriticalBacklash: The work is ''vastly'' underrated, and suffered from critical dumping from the very start. Even after the UsefulNotes/{{Second World War}}, critics had a tendency to underrate it, preferring the shorter poems of Wergeland. The fact that Wergeland himself worked after a {{viewers are geniuses}} statement didn't help. It has a fanbase anyway, and the next generation of Norwegian poets (like Creator/HenrikIbsen) reportedly read it.
* CultClassic: The poem has, as mentioned above, a small fanbase. Norwegian poet and activist ''Creator/{{Ingeborg Refling Hagen}}'' went a long way to make people read and understand it, and gained some points in teaching it to the nurses who helped her recover at the end of UsefulNotes/{{World War II}}. Thus, she created a solid, but loyal fanbase, who passed this knowledge on, and thus, the book is more read nowadays than before. On the international side, she inspired a friend to translate it into Czech, a fact that may or may not have inspired the ''Charta 77'' movement and the Velvet Revolution.