# Frithiof Saga

An audiobook by Ferdinand Schmidt, read by LibriVox volunteers (2 h 13 min, English).

Iceland is the home of the Saga, a form of literature which includes the telling of the story of a hero’s life and adventures in a fixed, regular form, and which is usually intended for recitation, though the Saga is never set in the customary versified style of poetry. A large number of these Sagas, relating to Iceland, Greenland, North America, and the Norse countries, still remain, and among them the Frithiof Saga, narrating the stirring adventures of that hero of the Northland and Viking of its seas, is one of the most beautiful. Its subject is noble, heroic, and free from exaggerated description or overwrought sentiment. Frithiof is a splendid type of the old Norse hero, invincible in battle upon the land, fearless of Nature’s wrath as he sails the seas in his dragon ship, impulsive yet just, swift in punishment yet quick in forgiveness. The central motives of the Saga are his love for King Bele’s daughter, Ingeborg; the refusal of her brothers to sanction their marriage because the hero is not of royal birth; her unwilling marriage to the old King Ring; Frithiof’s exile, and his final union with Ingeborg after the death of her husband and reconciliation with her brother…

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## Chapters

1. Frithiof and Ingeborg (5:44): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_01_schmidt_64kb.mp3
2. The Death of Balder (15:46): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_02_schmidt_64kb.mp3
3. King Bele and Thorsten (8:33): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_03_schmidt_64kb.mp3
4. Frithiof's Inheritance (9:52): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_04_schmidt_64kb.mp3
5. Frithiof's Wooing (4:46): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_05_schmidt_64kb.mp3
6. King Ring (4:26): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_06_schmidt_64kb.mp3
7. Frithiof at Chess (2:41): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_07_schmidt_64kb.mp3
8. Frithiof Goes to Ingeborg (2:27): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_08_schmidt_64kb.mp3
9. The Parting (9:12): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_09_schmidt_64kb.mp3
10. Frithiof's Voyage (3:37): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_10_schmidt_64kb.mp3
11. Frithiof at the Court of Augantyr (8:34): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_11_schmidt_64kb.mp3
12. Frithiof's Return (7:26): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_12_schmidt_64kb.mp3
13. The Burning of the Temple (4:26): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_13_schmidt_64kb.mp3
14. Frithiof in Exile (3:34): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_14_schmidt_64kb.mp3
15. Frithiof's Viking Life (3:57): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_15_schmidt_64kb.mp3
16. Frithiof Comes to King Ring's Court (5:55): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_16_schmidt_64kb.mp3
17. The Sledge Excursion (2:18): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_17_schmidt_64kb.mp3
18. Frithiof's Temptation (7:06): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_18_schmidt_64kb.mp3
19. Death of King Ring (3:12): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_19_schmidt_64kb.mp3
20. The Election to the Kingdom (2:25): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_20_schmidt_64kb.mp3
21. The Reconciliation (17:02): https://archive.org/download/frithiof_saga_1910_librivox/frithiofsaga_21_schmidt_64kb.mp3