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PREFACE
Tegn£r presents the curious situation in literature
of a writer who, although his chief work has been
rendered a score of times into English, is still not
widely known in England and America. This has
been due partly to the rarity of most of the
translations. The first seven, for instance, had so limited
a circulation that Muckleston,who made the eighth
in 1862, did not know of the existence of any
previous one when he sent his own manuscript
to the press. The American-Scandinavian
Foundation hopes through this volume to make Tegner
more easily accessible to those who cannot read him
in the original. He is the one Swedish poet to whose
works all his compatriots will at once accord a place
among Scandinavian classics.
The translation of the Frithiofs Saga here printed
is that of the Rev.W. L. Blackley, Dublin, 1857.
It was reprinted once before in this country, by
Bayard Taylor, in 1867,—the first version of the
Swedish work to appear in the United States. The
Children of the Lord’s Supper is from Longfellow’s
Ballads and Other Poems, Cambridge, 184a. Both
translations are faithful reproductions of their
originals. Blackley, however, disregards the feminine or
double rhymes that occur so often in the Frithiofs
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