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World's Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the Search for the Poles

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This is the eighth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VIII include excerpts from the Eddas, the life of the Vikings, the Scandinavian kings' fight for supremacy and the race towards the North and South Pole. - Summary by Sonia

Cast list for The ghost of Hamlet's father:

Bernardo: alanmapstone / Francisco: Jim Locke / Horatio: Eva Davis / Marcellus: Tomas Peter / Hamlet: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia

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World's Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the Search for the Poles

Chapters

The humiliating entry of Sonnavater and Knut into Stockholm, by C. G. Hellquist, (Swedish artist, 1851-1890), painting frontispiece

Norway Part I: Stories from Scandinavian mythology: Historical note

The wolf Fenris, from the Younger Edda

The horse Sleipnir, from the Younger Edda

Thor fishes for the Midgard Serpent, from the Younger Edda

Thor among the giants, from the Younger Edda

The death of Balder, from the Younger Edda

Proverbs from the Eddas

Boinnis Glacier and river, photograph p. 28

Norway Part II: Tales of the sea-rovers: Historical note

The discoverer of the North Cape (about 890), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The story of Hakon the Good (934-961), from the Heimskringla

Stories of Olaf Tryggvason (king of Norway from 996 to 1000)

Iron-Beard, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stories of Olaf the Saint (1015-1030)

The ancient church of Göl, photograph p. 76

King Magnus, who was reformed by a poem (reigned from 1035-1047), by Hjalmar H. Boyesen

How King Harald Hard-Ruler gave his treasure for his life (1049), by Hjalmar H. Boyesen

How King Sigurd smoked out the pirates (1107), from the Heimskringla

Birchlegs carrying King Hakon, by Knut Bergslien (Norwegian painter, born 1827), painting p. 88

Norway Part III: Life in the Far North: Historical note

Finn blood (nineteenth century), by Jonas Lie

A home in the North, photograph p. 92

The Naerodal and Jordalsnut, photograph p. 100

How the Laplanders live, by A. F. Mockler-Ferryman

Market day in the Far North, photograph p. 106

The music of Ole Bull, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sweden Part I: Stories of Viking life and adventure: Historical note

The hall of the early chiefs, by Henry Morley

How the Swedes elected their king, by Neander N. Cronholm

How the Swedes learned of Christianity (850), by S. Baring-Gould

How Ragnar Lodbrog won a wife and a nickname, by Saxo Grammaticus

The defeat of the Jomsburg Vikings (983), by Neander N. Cronholm

Sigrid the Haughty (about 988-1000)

Sweden Part II: Tales from Swedish history: Historical note

The blood-bath of Stockholm (1520), by William Widgery Thomas, Jr.

Gustavus Vasa, the saviour of Sweden (1520), by William Widgery Thomas, Jr.

The marriage of Gustavus Vasa (1523), by Wilhelm Jensen

Gustavus Adolphus at Lützen (1632), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

The battle-song of Gustavus Adolphus, by Michael Altenburg

The crossing of the Little Belt (1658), by Z. Topelius

How the ''Madman of the North'' defended himself at Bender (1713), by François Marie Arouet Voltaire

Bringing home the body of Charles XII, by Gustav Olaf Cederström (Swedish painter, 1845), painting p. 208

The Nobel Prize, by Vance Thompson

Denmark Part I: Tales of the Dark Ages: Historical note

The ghost of Hamlet's father, by William Shakespeare

The play scene in ''Hamlet'', by Daniel Maclise (Irish painter, 1806-1870), painting p. 234

The slaying of the monster Grendel, retold by Florence Holbrook (from ''Beowulf'', an ancient epic poem of Denmark)

How King Rorik regained the tribute, by Saxo Grammaticus

The speaking of Prince Uffe the Speechless, by Saxo Grammaticus

The letter of King Canute (1027)

Waldemar Atterdag and the Hansa (1361), by Helen Zimmerman

Denmark Part II: Folk-stories and legends: Historical note

King Volmer and Elsie, by John G. Whittier (after the Danish of Christian Winter)

The King of Denmark's ride, by Caroline Norton

Molboer stories

Denmark Part III: Scenes from Danish history: Historical note

The ''Madman of the North'' overcomes Copenhagen (1700), by François Marie Arouet Voltaire

King Christian (1677-1730), by Johannes Evald

Stories of Tordenskjöld the great Danish admiral (early eighteenth century)

The fall of Queen Caroline Mathilda (1772), by G. Hesekiel, from the memoirs of Baron Simolin

Hans Christian Andersen as a boy, by himself

Iceland Part I: In Saga times: Historical note

How the Sagas came to be written, by Sabine Baring-Gould

How the early Icelanders dressed, by J. Fulford Vicary

Paying visits in Saga time, by J. Fulford Vicary

How the laws were made in Saga time

Iceland Part II: Stories from the Icelandic Sagas: Historical note

The Irish in Thule (eighth century), from the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason

Glum and his man Ingolf (about 950), from ''Viga-Glum's Saga''

How Kjartan of Iceland became a Christian (about 1000), from the Laxdaeler's Saga

Thangbrand the priest (about 1000), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How Grettir the outlaw saved the farmhouse (early eleventh century), from the Saga of Grettir the Strong, rewritten by Sabine Baring-Gould

The burning of Njal (1014), from the Saga of Burnt Njal

How the boy Sigurd won the horse Greyfell, by William Morris

Iceland Part III: Iceland and its people: Historical note

The fire mountains of Iceland (1783), by Lord Dufferin

Climbing Mount Hekla (1854), by Pliny Miles