Icelandic proverb of the day: "No one becomes an unbeaten bishop", a lesson on how power comes with adversity, betrayal and competition

• Proverb of the day: 'No one becomes a bishop unbeaten'Proverb of the day: There is no easy way to success, and it only comes through heat and sweat.
• We are familiar with this saying, which does not need much explanation, as similar proverbs exist in all countries, languages, and cultures.
• But the Icelandic one introduces us to the jealousy, the competition, the conflict one has to go through to reach the top, as the position of the bishop remained the most powerful for centuries in Iceland.