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Updated: May 16, 2025
The secret of his birth has been kept from him until he has come to manhood, and the revelation of this secret by his mother is made in the first section of the trilogy, which is a single act, written in blank verse. Recognizing the futility of urging his birthright at this time, he starts off to win fame as a crusader, the sort of fame that haloed Sigurd Jorsalfar, then king of Norway.
He took two chairs, placed them in front of all the others, sat down on one, and said, 'If you please, first parquet'; and then the music began Sigurd Jorsalfar, Peer Gynt, and many other things.
One more saga drama was to be written by Bjoernson, but "Sigurd Slembe" remains his greatest achievement in this field of activity. Its single successor, "Sigurd Jorsalfar," was not published until ten years later, and may not be compared with it for either strength or poetic inspiration.
"I must not forget to relate that he grew so enthusiastic over 'Sigurd Jorsalfar, the subject of which I explained to him as minutely as possible, that he said to von Hiilsen, the intendant of the royal theatres, who sat next to him: 'We must produce this work! "I then invited von Hiilsen to come to Christiania to witness a performance of it, and he said he was very eager to so.
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