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The World’s Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the Search for the Poles

Eva March Tappan (1854 - 1930)

This is the eighth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VIII include excerpts from the Eddas, the life of the Vikings, the Scandinavian kings' fight for supremacy and the race towards the North and South Pole. - Summary by Sonia

Cast list for The ghost of Hamlet's father:
Bernardo: alanmapstone / Francisco: Jim Locke / Horatio: Eva Davis / Marcellus: Tomas Peter / Hamlet: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia

Genre(s): Sagas, History

Language: English

Group: World's Story

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The humiliating entry of Sonnavater and Knut into Stockholm, by C. G. Hellquist, (Swedish artist, 1851-1890), painting frontispiece	Sonia	00:02:23
Play 02	Norway Part I: Stories from Scandinavian mythology: Historical note	Sonia	00:02:01
Play 03	The wolf Fenris, from the Younger Edda	Sonia	00:06:54
Play 04	The horse Sleipnir, from the Younger Edda	Devorah Allen	00:04:42
Play 05	Thor fishes for the Midgard Serpent, from the Younger Edda	Tomas Peter	00:05:15
Play 06	Thor among the giants, from the Younger Edda	Philip Watson	00:12:37
Play 07	The death of Balder, from the Younger Edda	Philip Watson	00:12:35
Play 08	Proverbs from the Eddas	Sonia	00:01:24
Play 09	Boinnis Glacier and river, photograph p. 28	Jim Locke	00:02:43
Play 10	Norway Part II: Tales of the sea-rovers: Historical note	April6090	00:02:12
Play 11	The discoverer of the North Cape (about 890), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Nemo	00:06:20
Play 12	The story of Hakon the Good (934-961), from the Heimskringla	Jim Locke	00:19:01
Play 13	Stories of Olaf Tryggvason (king of Norway from 996 to 1000)	Devorah Allen	00:14:05
Play 14	Iron-Beard, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	cathar maiden	00:04:10
Play 15	Stories of Olaf the Saint (1015-1030)	Jim Locke	00:27:45
Play 16	The ancient church of Göl, photograph p. 76	Foon	00:01:59
Play 17	King Magnus, who was reformed by a poem (reigned from 1035-1047), by Hjalmar H. Boyesen	Wanda Wilkey	00:11:33
Play 18	How King Harald Hard-Ruler gave his treasure for his life (1049), by Hjalmar H. Boyesen	Jim Locke	00:04:53
Play 19	How King Sigurd smoked out the pirates (1107), from the Heimskringla	Chris Fields	00:03:20
Play 20	Birchlegs carrying King Hakon, by Knut Bergslien (Norwegian painter, born 1827), painting p. 88	cathar maiden	00:01:54
Play 21	Norway Part III: Life in the Far North: Historical note	Foon	00:01:56
Play 22	Finn blood (nineteenth century), by Jonas Lie	Jim Locke	00:17:01
Play 23	A home in the North, photograph p. 92	Foon	00:02:35
Play 24	The Naerodal and Jordalsnut, photograph p. 100	Foon	00:02:34
Play 25	How the Laplanders live, by A. F. Mockler-Ferryman	KevinS	00:11:46
Play 26	Market day in the Far North, photograph p. 106	Monika M. C.	00:02:26
Play 27	The music of Ole Bull, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Alan Mapstone	00:04:37
Play 28	Sweden Part I: Stories of Viking life and adventure: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:02:35
Play 29	The hall of the early chiefs, by Henry Morley	Tomas Peter	00:02:14
Play 30	How the Swedes elected their king, by Neander N. Cronholm	Alan Mapstone	00:02:19
Play 31	How the Swedes learned of Christianity (850), by S. Baring-Gould	Jim Locke	00:07:41
Play 32	How Ragnar Lodbrog won a wife and a nickname, by Saxo Grammaticus	cathar maiden	00:04:14
Play 33	The defeat of the Jomsburg Vikings (983), by Neander N. Cronholm	Phjodor	00:07:47
Play 34	Sigrid the Haughty (about 988-1000)	April6090	00:35:23
Play 35	Sweden Part II: Tales from Swedish history: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:02:18
Play 36	The blood-bath of Stockholm (1520), by William Widgery Thomas, Jr.	Hopeforce1	00:12:15
Play 37	Gustavus Vasa, the saviour of Sweden (1520), by William Widgery Thomas, Jr.	Max Körlinge	00:14:38
Play 38	The marriage of Gustavus Vasa (1523), by Wilhelm Jensen	Max Körlinge	00:12:58
Play 39	Gustavus Adolphus at Lützen (1632), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller	Jim Locke	00:18:01
Play 40	The battle-song of Gustavus Adolphus, by Michael Altenburg	Alan Mapstone	00:02:24
Play 41	The crossing of the Little Belt (1658), by Z. Topelius	Jim Locke	00:14:15
Play 42	How the ''Madman of the North'' defended himself at Bender (1713), by François Marie Arouet Voltaire	Jim Locke	00:28:23
Play 43	Bringing home the body of Charles XII, by Gustav Olaf Cederström (Swedish painter, 1845), painting p. 208	Alan Mapstone	00:02:46
Play 44	The Nobel Prize, by Vance Thompson	Availle	00:25:58
Play 45	Denmark Part I: Tales of the Dark Ages: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:02:42
Play 46	The ghost of Hamlet's father, by William Shakespeare	Group	00:14:37
Play 47	The play scene in ''Hamlet'', by Daniel Maclise (Irish painter, 1806-1870), painting p. 234	Sonia	00:01:55
Play 48	The slaying of the monster Grendel, retold by Florence Holbrook (from ''Beowulf'', an ancient epic poem of Denmark)	Philip Watson	00:18:32
Play 49	How King Rorik regained the tribute, by Saxo Grammaticus	Philip Watson	00:07:40
Play 50	The speaking of Prince Uffe the Speechless, by Saxo Grammaticus	Philip Watson	00:14:47
Play 51	The letter of King Canute (1027)	Sonia	00:04:50
Play 52	Waldemar Atterdag and the Hansa (1361), by Helen Zimmerman	Colleen McMahon	00:09:23
Play 53	Denmark Part II: Folk-stories and legends: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:02
Play 54	King Volmer and Elsie, by John G. Whittier (after the Danish of Christian Winter)	Tomas Peter	00:09:38
Play 55	The King of Denmark's ride, by Caroline Norton	Nemo	00:02:57
Play 56	Molboer stories	Jim Locke	00:06:08
Play 57	Denmark Part III: Scenes from Danish history: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:02:23
Play 58	The ''Madman of the North'' overcomes Copenhagen (1700), by François Marie Arouet Voltaire	Colleen McMahon	00:09:00
Play 59	King Christian (1677-1730), by Johannes Evald	Alan Mapstone	00:02:56
Play 60	Stories of Tordenskjöld the great Danish admiral (early eighteenth century)	PatrS	00:10:05
Play 61	The fall of Queen Caroline Mathilda (1772), by G. Hesekiel, from the memoirs of Baron Simolin	Colleen McMahon	00:16:05
Play 62	Hans Christian Andersen as a boy, by himself	Devorah Allen	00:12:17
Play 63	Iceland Part I: In Saga times: Historical note	Alan Mapstone	00:02:31
Play 64	How the Sagas came to be written, by Sabine Baring-Gould	Tomas Peter	00:04:19
Play 65	How the early Icelanders dressed, by J. Fulford Vicary	Jim Locke	00:15:18
Play 66	Paying visits in Saga time, by J. Fulford Vicary	Jim Locke	00:13:27
Play 67	How the laws were made in Saga time	Sonia	00:02:11
Play 68	Iceland Part II: Stories from the Icelandic Sagas: Historical note	Alan Mapstone	00:02:31
Play 69	The Irish in Thule (eighth century), from the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason	Alan Mapstone	00:02:09
Play 70	Glum and his man Ingolf (about 950), from ''Viga-Glum's Saga''	Jim Locke	00:14:22
Play 71	How Kjartan of Iceland became a Christian (about 1000), from the Laxdaeler's Saga	Jim Locke	00:15:57
Play 72	Thangbrand the priest (about 1000), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Nemo	00:05:26
Play 73	How Grettir the outlaw saved the farmhouse (early eleventh century), from the Saga of Grettir the Strong, rewritten by Sabine Baring-Gould	April6090	00:09:21
Play 74	The burning of Njal (1014), from the Saga of Burnt Njal	Kathrine Engan	00:12:59
Play 75	How the boy Sigurd won the horse Greyfell, by William Morris	KevinS	00:11:19
Play 76	Iceland Part III: Iceland and its people: Historical note	cathar maiden	00:02:25
Play 77	The fire mountains of Iceland (1783), by Lord Dufferin	Availle	00:09:21
Play 78	Climbing Mount Hekla (1854), by Pliny Miles	April6090	00:11:13
Play 79	Waiting for the Great Geyser to spout (1874), by Bayard Taylor	Availle	00:14:56
Play 80	How Icelandic children get their surnames, by Mrs Disney Leith	Sonia	00:02:43
Play 81	Greenland Part I: Stories from the history of Greenland: Historical note	Tomas Peter	00:02:36
Play 82	How Eric the Red came to Greenland (983), by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes	Jane Bennett	00:10:45
Play 83	How the Greenlanders got a bishop (1126), by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes	Jane Bennett	00:09:56
Play 84	The search for the lost colonies of Greenland (1579-1671), by Dr. Henry Rink	PatrS	00:10:24
Play 85	The apostle to Greenland (1721-1736), by Jacob A. Riis	Jim Locke	00:22:24
Play 86	A model parliament, by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes	Jim Locke	00:10:43
Play 87	Greenland Part II: Stories of life in Greenland: Historical note	Availle	00:01:33
Play 88	Greenland customs of two centuries ago, by Hans Egede	Jim Locke	00:08:51
Play 89	How to build a ''woman's boat'', by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes	Jim Locke	00:05:51
Play 90	The Eskimos and their ways, from the Cornhill magazine	Jim Locke	00:17:30
Play 91	The farewell of the Greenlanders, from the Cornhill magazine	Jim Locke	00:07:45
Play 92	What is an iceberg ?, by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes	Availle	00:17:16
Play 93	Escaping from a glacier, by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes	Availle	00:14:58
Play 94	The search for the Poles Part I: Adventures in the frozen North: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:42
Play 95	Spitzbergen, the island that belongs to no one, by Lord Dufferin	April6090	00:15:39
Play 96	Fifteen hundred miles of floating ice (1871-1872), by Hans Hendrik	Kristine Bekere	00:20:49
Play 97	How to build a snow-hut, by Roald Amundsen	April6090	00:17:05
Play 98	The Northwest Passage, by Sir John Everett Millais (English painter, 1829-1896), painting p. 518	Tomas Peter	00:02:13
Play 99	Paying a call in the Northwest Passage (1906), by Roald Amundsen	Kristine Bekere	00:17:02
Play 100	The search for the Poles Part II: The North Pole: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:50
Play 101	The fate of Sir John Franklin (1849), by Elizabeth Doten	Kristine Bekere	00:05:17
Play 102	A balloon search for the North Pole (1897), by G. Firth Scott	Devorah Allen	00:05:21
Play 103	The attack of the ice (1893), by Fridtjof Nansen	April6090	00:13:28
Play 104	The discovery of the North Pole (1909), by Admiral Robert E. Peary	Availle	00:24:02
Play 105	Admiral Peary in his North-Pole costume, photograph p. 546	Alan Mapstone	00:02:38
Play 106	The search for the Poles Part III: The South Pole: Historical note	J. M. Smallheer	00:01:34
Play 107	In Antarctic winter quarters (1908-1909), by Sir Ernest H. Shackleton	KevinS	00:21:00
Play 108	Norway at the South Pole (1911), by Roald Amundsen	KevinS	00:04:49
Play 109	At the South Pole, photograph p. 574	Alan Mapstone	00:02:45
Play 110	The rivals in the Antarctic (1911), from Harper's Weekly	KevinS	00:10:38
Play 111	Captain Scott's last message (1912), by Robert F. Scott	Sonia	00:05:29

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