Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...times as it was handed down. These twenty lays dealing with the Nibelungen note form the nucleus of the song. The Nibelungenlied is in substance a tragedy, and an unparalleled phenomenon in the world's history. It assumed its present form in the 12th century, and it is from Norwegian sources that we have poems showing its form. The song is a myth signifying the victory of the seasons. Summer appeared to the old Teutonic tribes as a kind god with golden hair and blue eyes as distinguished from winter, the dark god. Siegfried, the hero of the story...
...These people did not settle here but returned home as did many other explorers quite disheartened at the country. A permanent settlement, however, was made by Ingolfe in 874. The manner of the settlement was this: The people in the inlands south of Norway being unwilling to submit to Norwegian rule, migrated to Iceland in 884. This people increased until the population became from 25,000 to 30,000. They settled at first about the temples in little bands but finally agreed to unite and form a democracy. A constitution was adopted from Norway; the state was divided into four...
...Twelve Temptations," a combination of melo-drama and a variety show in connection with much ballet dancing began the week at the Globe. It is an amusing and well staged piece, based upon the old Norwegian legend of "The Snow Queen." The costumes are good, and the dancers well arranged...
Eight or ten well-formed men are wanted to act as peasants in the Norsk Fest-day, an entertainment descriptive of Norwegian life, to be given Thursday afternoon, January 30, at the Boston Theatre, in aid of the Charity Club Free Hospital for Women, of which Mrs. Robert Treat Paine is one of the directors. Harvard men who would be willing to act in this capacity may learn full particulars by calling at Hayden's the customer, on Washington street, any afternoon this week...