Esaias Tegnér Quotes

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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.

Esaias Tegnér

A glimpse of Breidablick, whose walls are light
As e'en the silver on the cliff it shone;
Of dark blue steel its columns azure height
And the big altar was one agate stone.
It seemed as if the air upheld alone
Its dome, unless supporting spirits bore it,
Studded with stars Odin's spangled throne,
A light inscrutable burned fiercely o'er it;
In sky-blue mantles,
Sat the gold-crowned gods before it.

Esaias Tegnér

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

Esaias Tegnér

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

Esaias Tegnér

Esaias Tegnér

Esaias Tegnér

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Born: November 13, 1782

Died: November 2, 1846 (aged 63)

Bio: Esaias Tegnér was a Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop. He was during the 19th century regarded as the father of modern poetry in Sweden, mainly through the national romantic epos Frithjof's Saga.

Known for:

Frithiof's saga (1825)
Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna
Fritof's Saga
FRITHIOFS SAGA FROM THE SWEDIS

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