Viking Tales of the North e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Legend of Fridthjof the Valiant is the noblest poetic contribution which Sweden has yet made to the literary history of the world. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<br><br>No poetical work of modern times stands forth so prominently and peculiarly a representative of the literature of a race and language as the Fridthjof's Saga of Esaias Tegner. - Bayard Taylor.<br><br>In der Fridthjof's Sage verehrt das schwedische Volk seine lieblischste und beruhmteste National-dichtung. - Gottlieb Mohmike, in the preface to the ninth edition of his German translation of the poem.