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Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna is a legendary saga from Iceland which in its present form is from ca 1300. It is a continuation from Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar, and it takes place in the 8th century. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (978x752, 246 KB)Painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831-1892). ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (978x752, 246 KB)Painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831-1892). ...
Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831–1892) was a Norwegian painter, who specialized in painting historical motifs and images from Norse mythology. ...
Fornalder (times past), painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo A Fornaldarsaga, literally a tale of times past, or Legendary saga is a Norse saga which unlike the Icelandic sagas takes place before the colonization of Iceland. ...
Events Beginning of the Renaissance. ...
Þorsteins saga VÃkingssonar or The Saga of Thorstein, Vikings Son is a legendary saga taking place in the 7th century and it is about the father of Frithjof the Bold. ...
(7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ...
Frithiof's saga
It was translated into Swedish in 1737 and became the basis for Esaias Tegnér's poem Frithiofs saga (1825) and even before it was completed it was famous throughout Europe; the aged Goethe took up his pen to commend to his countrymen this "alte, kraftige, gigantischbarbarische Dichtart," and desired Amalie von Imhoff to translate it into German. This romantic paraphrase of an ancient saga was composed in twenty-four cantos, all differing in verse form, modelled somewhat. Frithjof's saga is the best known of all Swedish productions; it is said to have been translated twenty-two times into English, twenty times into German, and once at least into every European language, including modern Icelandic in 1866. Events 12 February — The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated. ...
Esaias Tegnér Esaias Tegnér (November 13, 1782 - November 2, 1846), Swedish writer, was born at Kyrkerud in Wermelandia. ...
1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced [gø tə]) (August 28, 1749–March 22, 1832) was a German writer, politician, humanist, scientist, and philosopher. ...
A canticle is a hymn (strictly excluding the Psalms) taken from the Bible. ...
1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ...
Synopsis King Beli of Sogn had two sons, Helgi and Halfdan, and a daugher named Ingeborg. On the other side of the fjord, lived the king's friend Þorsteinn Víkingsson whose son Frithjof (Friðþjófr) was called "the bold" (inn frœkni) and he was the bravest among men. Frithjof had been raised together with Ingeborg (Ingibjörg) by their foster-father Hilding (Hildingr). Image File history File links From [www. ...
Sogn is a landscape in the western part of Norway, surrounding Sognefjorden. ...
Þorsteins saga VÃkingssonar or The Saga of Thorstein, Vikings Son is a legendary saga taking place in the 7th century and it is about the father of Frithjof the Bold. ...
Both Beli and Þorsteinn died in war whereupon Helgi and Halfdan took over the kingdom. The two kings were jealous with Frithjof's excellent qualities and so they denied him Ingeborg's hand. They took her to Baldrshagi (Baldr's sacred enclosure) where no one dared hurt another and where no woman and man had intercourse. Still, Frithjof visited Ingeborg and they continued to love each other. Baldr. ...
This caused Helgi and Halfdan to send Frithjof away to the Orkneys to take tribute and while he was away they burnt down his homestead and married Ingeborg to the aged king Ring of Ringerike. The Orkney Islands form one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and are a Lieutenancy Area. ...
Ringerike is a municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway. ...
When Frithjof returned with the tribute, he burnt down Baldr's temple in Baldrshagi and went away to live as a viking. After three years, he came to king Ring and spent the winter with him. Just before the old king died, Frithjof's identity was apparent to everybody and so the dying king appointed Frithjof earl and made him the care-taker of Ring's and Ingeborg's child. When Ring had died, Frithjof and Ingeborg married and he became the king of Ringerike. Then he declared war on Ingeborg's brothers, killed one of them and made the second one his vassal. The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, the British Isles, and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ...
External links - Original version:
- The saga in Old Norse
- The saga in English translation
- A second site with a translation
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