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Frans G. Bengtsson

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born

October 04, 1894 in Tossjö, Sweden

died

December 19, 1954

gender

male

website

http://fgb-sallskapet.no-ip.org/

genre

Poetry, Historical Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

influences

Alexandre Dumas, Homer

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Frans G. Bengtsson (1894–1954) was born and raised in the southern Swedish province of Skåne, the son of an estate manager. His early writings, including a doctoral thesis on Geoffrey Chaucer and two volumes of poetry written in what were considered antiquated verse forms, revealed a career-long interest in historical literary modes and themes. Bengtsson was a prolific translator (of Paradise Lost, The Song of Roland, and Walden), essayist (he published five collections of his writings, mostly on literary and military topics), and biographer (his two-volume biography of Charles XII won the Swedish Academy’s annual prize in 1938). In 1941 he published Roede Orm, sjoefarare i vaesterled (Red Orm at Home and on the Western Way), followed, in 1...more

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Books by Frans G. Bengtsson

Average rating: 4.26 · 848 ratings · 185 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Long Ships 4.27 avg rating — 823 ratings — published 1945 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Røde Orm I - Søfarer I Vesterled 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1941 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Røde Orm II - Hjemme og I Østerled 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1941 — 2 editions	My rating:
	De långhåriga merovingerna 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1933 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Karl Xii:S Levnad: Till Uttaget Ur Sachsen 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Walk to an Ant Hill and Other Essays 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1951	My rating:
	Valfrandskaper: Artiklar I Svensk Uppslagsbok 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Den lustgård som jag minns 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1953	My rating:
	Skogsliv vid Walden. Inledning och översättning av Frans G. Bengtsson. Teckningar av Stig Åsbergition by Henry David Thoreau, Frans G. Bengtsson (translator) 3.71 avg rating — 33,686 ratings — published 1845 — 30 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Frans G. Bengtsson

“...Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.”
― Frans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships

tags: language-learning , multilingualism , vikings

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“Hvorledes skulle det gå, hvis man slap nordboerne ind i himlen ? I ville gribe efter de hellige jomfruer med utugtig tale, udstøde et hærskrig over for serafer og ærkeengle og skråle efter øl, når I stod ansigt til ansigt med Gud.”
― Frans G. Bengtsson

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“A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.”
― Frans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships

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