Abstract
A popular narrative about Norwayʼs response to Covid-19 says that its extraordinary success was due to the Norwegian populationʼs exceptional trust in its government. In this article, I present several examples of discourse that went into creating this narrative, but then ask what this story excludes or backgrounds. I find that a host of commercial and/or foreign actors, which demonstrably were of great importance to Norwayʼs pandemic response, were hardly part of the conversation about the pandemic, and elaborate three such examples. Finally, I discuss what would have had to be the case for a more composite, and thus more realistic, narrative about Norwayʼs pandemic response to emerge.