"Sigurd" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... endless variations, and some of our greatest modern writers have deemed them worthy of a new dress, as is seen in Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," Goethe's "Reineke Fuchs," Tegner's "Frithiof Saga," Wieland's "Oberon," Morris's "Story of Sigurd," and many shorter works by these ...
— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber
... indistinctly seen, as it is, among those umbrageous trees; you might almost suppose it an earl's home; and such it was, or rather upon its site stood an earl's home, in the days of old, for there some old Kemp, some Sigurd, or Thorkild, roaming in quest of a hearthstead, settled down in the gray old time, when Thor and Freya were yet gods, and Odin was a portentous name. Yon old hall is still called ...
— Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913 • James Hooper
... the two foremost men of Norway, were very closely associated throughout life. They were schoolmates, and both were interested in writing and producing plays. Ibsen's son, Dr. Sigurd Ibsen, married Bjoernson's daughter, Bergilot. These two great writers were direct contrasts in nearly everything: Bjoernson lived among his people, Ibsen was reserved; Bjoernson played the role of an optimistic prophet, Ibsen, that of a pessimistic ...
— Short-Stories • Various
... His tribute paid, but ceased when Bele died. Go o'er the sea and drive this tribute in; This penance thy audacity demands. 'Tis said," sneered he, with meanest mockery, "That Angantyr hard-fisted is, and broods Like dragon Fafner o'er his gold: but who Can stand 'gainst our new Sigurd, Fafner's bane? Exploits more manly must thou undertake Than luring maidens under Balder's roof. When summer comes shall we expect you here With all thy honor, first of all the tribute. If not, thou art to every man a felon, And during life art outlawed through the land." ...
— Fridthjof's Saga • Esaias Tegner |
