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A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.

— Esaias Tegnér Fridthjof's Saga (1820)

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Autumn has come;
Storming now heaveth the deep sea with foam,
Yet would I gratefully lie there,
Willingly die there.

Fridthjof's Saga (1820)

A woman's honor rests on manly love.

Fridthjof's Saga (1820)

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

Fridthjof's Saga (1820)

Hener was the hero-king,
Heaven-born, dear to us,
Showing his shield
A shelter for peace.

Fridthjof's Saga (1820)

In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,
All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,
Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.
What you cannot clearly say, you don’t know:
To tongue of man his thought brings word:
What’s said obscurely is what’s thought obscurely.

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