. Frithjof, the viking of Norway : and Roland, the paladin of France. convince. Thisgift of fascination Tegner possessed inthe highest degree, and, while he himselfdoubted his success, being naturally mod-est and diffident, and, in his letters tofriends, expressed a fear lest he mighthave injured the cause of his beloved folk-legends by unskilful treatment of the par-ticular Saga he had selected,—the poemtook the country by storm and, in its fur-ther triumphant march, included not onlythe entire Northern world, but even theliterary circles of remote is shown by the number of
. Frithjof, the viking of Norway : and Roland, the paladin of France. convince. Thisgift of fascination Tegner possessed inthe highest degree, and, while he himselfdoubted his success, being naturally mod-est and diffident, and, in his letters tofriends, expressed a fear lest he mighthave injured the cause of his beloved folk-legends by unskilful treatment of the par-ticular Saga he had selected,—the poemtook the country by storm and, in its fur-ther triumphant march, included not onlythe entire Northern world, but even theliterary circles of remote is shown by the number of metricaltranslations of it in existence : twenty-oneGerman and nearly as many English,several Danish, French, Dutch, Polish,Latin, and one Italian, one Russian, oneHungarian, one Greek, and one Icelandic. 144 Frithjof As to the poets own native Sweden, It issaid that there is hardly a peasants cabinwhere a copy of the Frithjof-Saga is nottreasured by the side of the Bible and theHymnal, the three mostly forming theentire family library. This is popularityindeed!. ROLAND THE PALADIN OF FRANCE *LA CHANSON DE ROLANDTHE LAY OF ROLAND 145 <i \ik{nnrtifwi tmuir J)aLrM atbtiefSiftfrinflrtTKwr fiarift-cnmrW ata-tf- V unr tcfmlrfttulidiruninor. rtcttr lolifdu ^]uernttkt?f:^ire iic il ftcix en Ictmc Kt i^eraer fiir a arrfrtttfriert4ccr7 lat^ oiU 6clcfi^Ud<i tnifftif. t iifa{cf^3iccftldA cwfkjniet? 11101 tr. Aftc( Udic culucirpaicti ctTftifttnMfi of. M el ormr ImmrtiCTtnneiigjt^trpc^i-ft^* c^nt. vMicfh Licnftntfy Uaii- ojerfvtfui-pic^cjtt^ncTuil yaert?t»r«<^rtt»^ FACSIMILE OF A PAGE OF THE CHANSON DE ROLAND (LAY OF^^ ROLAND)? FROM A MS. OF THE CENTURY. NOWAT OXFORD, IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY. PART FIRST GANELONS TREASON I KING MARSILIUS HOLDS A COUNCILAT SARAGOSSA CHARLES, the King and great Em-peror, had been in Spain full sevenyears, and had conquered the
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