"Hilding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... where a father slays his son unwittingly, and then falls at his brother's hand, a tale combining the Rustam and the Balin-Balan types, is one of the Hilding tragedies, and curiously preserved in the late "Saga of Asmund the Champions' bane". It is an antithesis, as Dr. Rydberg remarks, to the Hildebrand and Hadubrand story, where father and son ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... In Hilding's garden, green and fair, Protected by his fostering care, Two rare and stately plants were growing, ...
— Fridthjof's Saga • Esaias Tegner
... greatest treasures in the North, Thorsten returned home to Framnaes, where Ingeborg bore him a fine boy, Frithiof, the playmate of Halfdan and Helge, Bele's sons. The three youths were already well grown when Ingeborg, Bele's little daughter, was born, and as she was intrusted to the care of Hilding, Frithiof's foster father, the children grew up ...
— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber |
