<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409598" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. Interlude IV.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then the blue-eyed Norseman told<br>A Saga of the days of old.<br>'There is,' said he, 'a wondrous book<br>Of Legends in the old Norse tongue,<br>Of the dead kings of Norroway,--<br>Legends that once were told or sung<br>In many a smoky fireside nook<br>Of Iceland, in the ancient day,<br>By wandering Saga-man or Scald;<br>Heimskringla is the volume called;<br>And he who looks may find therein<br>The story that I now begin.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in each pause the story made<br>Upon his violin he played,<br>As an appropriate interlude,<br>Fragments of old Norwegian tunes<br>That bound in one the separate runes,<br>And held the mind in perfect mood,<br>Entwining and encircling all<br>The strange and antiquated rhymes<br>with melodies of olden times;<br>As over some half-ruined wall,<br>Disjointed and about to fall,<br>Fresh woodbines climb and interlace,<br>And keep the loosened stones in place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409598" data-title="Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. Interlude IV. de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="And then the blue-eyed Norseman told A Saga of the days of old. 'There is,' said he, 'a wondrous book Of Legends in the old Norse tongue, Of the dead kings of Norroway,-- Legends that once were told or sung In many a smoky fireside nook Of Iceland..."></div> </div> </div>

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