Vikings At Helgeland And The Pretenders

Author : William Archer
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ISBN 13 : 9781331810445
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Vikings at Helgeland, Vol. 2 written by William Archer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Vikings at Helgeland, Vol. 2: The Pretenders Ibsen himself has told us, in his preface to the second edition of The Feast at Solhoug, how the reading of the Icelandic family-sagas suggested to him, in germ, the theme of The Vikings at Helgeland. What he first saw, he says, was the contrasted figures of the two women who ultimately became Hiordis and Dagny, together with a great banquet-scene at which an interchange of taunts and gibes should lead to tragic consequences. The conception of the two women's characters was certainly not new to him, seeing that a similar contrast presents itself in his very earliest work, Catilina, between the aptly-named Furia and the gentle Aurelia; while even in Lady Inger of strat it reappears, somewhat disguised, in the contrast between Inger Gyldenl ve and her daughter Elina. While the scheme of The Vikings was still entirely vague, however, fresh influences, both of a personal and of a literary nature, intervened, and, transposing the theme from the purely dramatic into the lyrical key, he produced The Feast at Solhoug. The foster-sisters, Hiordis and Dagny, became the sisters Margit and Signe, and the banquet, instead of being the culminating-point of the dramatic action, became its mere background. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."