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...LIVING AND ONE DEAD-Sigurd Christiansen-Liveright...
...Ballad Books and Ballad Men" is the title of 327 page work of Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt. The author puts forth in this volume a survey of ballad men, from Sir Walter Scott to Francis James Child '46, who was the predecessor of G.L. Kittredge '82 as Gurney Professor of English Literature. Two chapters are devoted to the contemporaneous story of Scandinavian balladry, particularly in its relation to the labors of Child. Appendixes present a large store of illuminating documents, hitherto unpublished, from the correspondence of Child and the Danish editor Grunting...
SINNERS IN SUMMERTIME?Sigurd Hoel?Coward McCann...
...Author Sigurd Hoel, himself a translator from English into Norwegian, has never before been translated. Sinners in Summertime is his first novel. It is appearing simultaneously in Norway, Sweden. Holland, Germany...
...many nationalities were represented: Flemings, Lotharingians, Bavarians, Normans, Angles, Scots, Italians, Britons, Greeks, Armenians. After Jerusalem had fallen, Sigurd, King of the Vikings, came in his dragonships with 10,000 men. Altogether these Crusaders numbered some 280,000, of whom 250,000 died before they won Jerusalem. Nominal leader was Hugh, Count of Vermandois, who proved better at speaking than at fighting; then Godfrey of Bouillon took actual command, was first across the walls when they stormed Jerusalem. Other notables: lackadaisical Duke Robert Short Breeches of Normandy, red-haired Bohe-mund, Tancred, "finest sword of the Normans," the first...