Epic poem · 1825
Fridthjof's Saga
A Norse Romance
Translated by Thomas A. E. Holcomb and Martha A. Lyon Holcomb (1876)
Tegnér's Swedish romantic epic in twenty-four cantos, drawn from an Icelandic saga: the farmer's son Fridthjof loves Ingeborg, daughter of King Bele, and is parted from her by her brothers, outlawed, and finally reconciled, here in English verse by the Holcombs.
Contents · 24 parts
- Canto I: Fridthjof and Ingeborgabout 160 lines
- Canto II: King Bele and Thorsteinabout 160 lines
- Canto III: Fridthjof's Inheritanceabout 210 lines
- Canto IV: Fridthjof's Courtshipabout 130 lines
- Canto V: King Ringabout 110 lines
- Canto VI: Fridthjof Plays Chess48 lines
- Canto VII: Fridthjof's Happinessabout 190 lines
- Canto VIII: The Partingabout 510 lines
- Canto IX: Ingeborg's Lament44 lines
- Canto X: Fridthjof at Seaabout 220 lines
- Canto XI: Fridthjof with Angantyrabout 270 lines
- Canto XII: The Returnabout 220 lines
- Canto XIII: Balder's Funeral Pileabout 110 lines
- Canto XIV: Fridthjof Goes Into Exileabout 250 lines
- Canto XV: The Viking Code96 lines
- Canto XVI: Fridthjof and Bjorn64 lines
- Canto XVII: Fridthjof Comes to King Ring97 lines
- Canto XVIII: The Ride on the Ice32 lines
- Canto XIX: Fridthjof's Temptationabout 110 lines
- Canto XX: King Ring's Death90 lines
- Canto XXI: Ring's Drapa80 lines
- Canto XXII: The King's Election89 lines
- Canto XXIII: Fridthjof at his Father's Graveabout 130 lines
- Canto XXIV: The Reconciliationabout 300 lines