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gentle woman with those faithful eyes is the
daughter of Frithiof’s bard; we see noble men
and women, ladies of the high nobility, with
sounding and significant family names with
silver and lilies, – stars and swords.
Hark! listen to that lively song. Gunnar
Wennerberg, Gluntarra’s poet and composer,
sings his songs with Boronees,[1] and they acquire
a dramatic life and reality.
How spiritual and enjoyable! one becomes
happy here, one feels proud of the age one lives
in, happy in being distant from the horrible
tragedies that history speaks of within these
walls.
We can hear about them when the song is
silent, when those friendly forms disappear, and
the festal lights are extinguished: from the pages
of history that tale resounds with a clang of
horror. It was in those times, which the many
still call poetic – the romantie middle ages – that
bards sang of its most brilliant periods, and
covered with the radiance of their genius the
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