Get Your Hands On Viking Tales Of The North: The Sagas Of Thorstein, Viking's Son And Fridthjof The Bold Formulated By Rasmus Bjørn Anderson Offered As Digital Edition

Legend of Fridthjof the Valiant is the noblest poetic contribution which Sweden has yet made in the literary history of the world.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNo poetical work of modern times stands forth as prominently and peculiarly a representative of the literature of a race and language as the Fridthjof's Saga of Esaias Tegnir.
Bayard Taylor The rhyme scheme was a little difficult to get through, It might have been better had I read it in a real book, not electronically, Really fun adventure tale taking place over many generations, you will see the influence the Norse writings had on Tolkien's.
Rasmus Bjørn Anderson January,March,was an American author, professor, and diplomat, He brought to popular attention the idea that Viking explorers discovered the New World and was the originator of Leif Erikson Day.
Anderson was born in Albion in Dane County, Wisconsin to parents who were immigrants from Stavanger in the county of Rogaland, Norway.
His parents were part of a small band of Quaker sympathizers who organized the first Norwegian emigration to America in the earlys.
Anderson was a graduate of Luther College and the University of WisconsinMadison, He was a professor at the University of WisconsinMadison from, While there, he was the founding head of the Department of Scandinavian Studies, the Rasmus Bjørn Anderson January,March,was an American author, professor, and diplomat.
He brought to popular attention the idea that Viking explorers discovered the New World and was the originator of Leif Erikson Day.
Anderson was born in Albion in Dane County, Wisconsin to parents who were immigrants from Stavanger in the county of Rogaland, Norway.
His parents were part of a small band of Quaker sympathizers who organized the first Norwegian emigration to America in the earlys.
Anderson was a graduate of Luther College and the University of WisconsinMadison, He was a professor at the University of WisconsinMadison

from, While there, he was the founding head of the Department of Scandinavian Studies, the oldest such department in an American university.
Rasmus B. Anderson founded a publication company, The Norrœna Society, which focused on republishing translations of texts devoted to "the History and Romance of Northern Europe".
Anderson was the author of a number of books with Scandinavian themes, He also did a series of translations from Scandinavian languages, most notably the writings of Norwegian novelist Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
Fromto, Anderson served as the United States Ambassador to Denmark, After his return to the U, S. in, he was editorof the Norwegian language weekly, Amerika, Anderson's book America Not Discovered by Columbus helped popularize the now familiar idea that Vikings were the first Europeans in the New World.
Anderson was the originator of the movement to honor Leif Erikson with a holiday in the United States.
Through efforts he started and led, Leif Erikson Day became an official observance in his native Wisconsin and other U.
S. states. Decades after Anderson's death, it first became a federal observance by Presidential proclamation in, sitelink.