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Updated: May 19, 2025
"And know, O Frithiof," said the aged man, "that Baldur is better pleased when the heart grows soft and injuries are forgiven, than with the most costly sacrifices. Lay aside forever all thoughts of hatred and revenge, and stretch out to Halfdan the hand of friendship."
A couple of hundred thousand years ago or thereabouts don't let us haggle, I beg of you, over a few casual centuries the whole of northern Europe and America was covered from end to end, as everybody knows, by a sheet of solid ice, like the one which Frithiof Nansen crossed from sea to sea on his own account in Greenland.
All of a sudden something light appeared between the trees and the gardener's daughter emerged from the underwood and stepped out on the footpath. Frithiof dismounted and took off his hat. They walked on, side by side, talking, while he dragged his horse behind him. He spoke in vague words of his love for her; but she rejected all his advances. "Why should we talk of the impossible?" she asked.
And as he spoke, an inner door flew open, and a sweet chorus of youthful voices was heard. A band of maidens issued forth, and at their head walked Ingebjorg, fairer than ever. Then Halfdan, leading her to Frithiof, placed her hand within that of the viking. "Behold thy wife," said Halfdan. "Well hast thou won her. May the gods attend upon your bridal."
You treat Minna and me as though we were men to whom you must talk politics or commerce; whereas we are young girls, and you ought to tell us tales while you drink your tea. That is what we do, Monsieur Wilfrid, in our long Norwegian evenings. Come, dear pastor, tell me some Saga that I have not heard, that of Frithiof, the chronicle that you believe and have so often promised me.
And so they were; and they were so much taken up with trying to free themselves from the seaweed and from Frithiof's long darts, that they were unable to give any heed to the storm, which therefore went down, and Frithiof and his crew sailed on, and reached the Orkney Isles in safety. "Here comes Frithiof," said the viking Atlé. "I know him by his dragon-ship."
She was a pretty young woman with a delicate complexion. He was teasing her and finally put his hand down her back. "Do behave yourself, now, Mr. Frithiof," said the girl. "But I am behaving myself," he replied, becoming more and more familiar. "If mistress should see you!" "Well supposing she did?"
Some were for trying to run the witch down and break her back, as did Frithiof in like case, when hunted by a whale with two hags upon his back, an excellent recipe in such cases, but somewhat difficult in a heavy sea. Others said that there was a doomed man on board, and proposed to cast lots till they found him out, and cast him into the sea, as a sacrifice to Aegir the wave-god.
Stay with us yet a little longer, the old man soon will be gathered to his fathers, then shall his kingdom and his wife be thine." But Frithiof replied that he had already remained too long, and that on the morrow he must depart. Yet he went not; for death had visited the palace, and old King Ring was stretched upon his bier, while the bards around sang of his wisdom.
Thou shalt therefore sail forth to the distant Orkney Isles, and compel Jarl Angantyr to pay the tribute that he owes us." Frithiof would have refused to go, but Ingebjorg persuaded him to undertake the mission; for she was afraid of her brothers, and knew that Frithiof would be safer on the wild seas than in their hands.
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