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Excerpt from Sigurd Slembe: A Dramatic Trilogy Yet such a body of myth and hero-story as this could never be quite lost or become wholly meaningless to the race which gave it birth, and the elementary traits of whose character were bound up Within it. So it was natural that when, in modern times, and in common with the other nations of Europe, the people of the North were impelled to the development of a studied literature, they should draw largely upon the varied store of tradi tion for their material, and seek at a later day to do something of the work so long left undone. Thus Teg ner in Sweden, Ewald and Oehlenschlmgerin Denmark, and Bjornson in Norway have found many of their themes in the treasure-house of myth and saga. Of all this modern work that of Bjornson seems the most re moved from modern ways of thought and expression, ex hibits most clearly the modes of feeling of that quasi historical past which it reproduces, is the most vigorous and the most elemental. 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.