Passages from Frithiof's Saga
Frithiof's homestead contains fertile fields, livestock, and a great hall where Thorsten entertained guests with accounts of distant voyages. On a frozen lake, a stranger warns King Ring against crossing, then skates ahead of the king's sledge and carves Ingeborg's name into the ice. Later, Frithiof rejects a bird's urging to kill the sleeping Ring and take his queen; in his farewell, he calls the ocean his fatherland and grave, while Ring answers that everyone must die.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Narrative Poetry, Heroic Poetry, Mythological Poetry · 1,882 words
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By Esaias Tegnér
I. Frithiof's Homestead
Genres
- Narrative Poetry — Four verse passages describe a homestead, recount a journey across lake ice, dramatize a rejected temptation, and present a farewell.
- Heroic Poetry — Frithiof refuses to kill a defenseless sleeping king after the white bird warns that such an act cannot earn a hero's fame.
- Mythological Poetry — Odin's watchful eye enters the argument against murder, and the opposing birds depart toward Nastrand and the sun.
Tags
Norse mythology · temptation · honor · kingship · ice skating · farewell
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Narrative Poetry, Heroic Poetry, Mythological Poetry
- Length: 1,882 words
- Structure: 1 section, 29 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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