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Frans G. Bengtsson

Born

in Tossjö, Sweden

October 04, 1894

Died

December 19, 1954

Website

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

Genre

Poetry, Historical Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

Alexandre Dumas, Homer ...more

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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 (Karl XII:s levnad) won the Swedish Academy’s annual prize in 1938). In 1941 he published Röde Orm: Sjöfarare i västerled (Red Orm at Home and on the Western Way ...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 15,275 ratings · 1,482 reviews · 62 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson, Michael Meyer (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 12,862 ratings — published 1941 — 131 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Röde Orm 1: Sjöfarare i västerled 4.09 avg rating — 1,348 ratings — published 1941 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Røde Orm: Hjemme og i Østerled by Frans G. Bengtsson, Kjeld Elfelt (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 512 ratings — published 1945 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De långhåriga merovingerna 3.72 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1933 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karl XII:s levnad. Till uttåget ur Sachsen 3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1932 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Orm (The Long Ships): A Viking Tale 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sällskap för en eremit 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1938 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Litteratörer och militärer; Silversköldarna 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1929 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silversköldarna 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Röde Orm 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Frans G. Bengtsson

Röde Orm (2 books)
by

Frans G. Bengtsson,

Kjeld Elfelt (Translator)

4.25 avg rating — 14,718 ratings

Karl Xll:s levnad (2 books)
by

Frans G. Bengtsson

3.73 avg rating — 62 ratings

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

26 likes

“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

tags: wisdom

12 likes

“Mulled ale for the frozen man,
And mulled ale for the weary:
For mulled ale is the body's friend
And makes the sick heart merry.”
― Frans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships

tags: drinking

6 likes

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August 2025 New School Poll

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier (1941), 253 pages

40 votes, 25.8%

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972) 170 pages

31 votes, 20.0%

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles (1969), 470 pages

31 votes, 20.0%

Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson (1934) 352 pages

16 votes, 10.3%

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan (1943) 256 pages

15 votes, 9.7%

Manhatten Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925) 342 pages

14 votes, 9.0%

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (1941) 478 pages

8 votes, 5.2%

155 total votes

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