excerpt from the book..In Hilding's Garden So they grew up in joy and glee, And Frithiof was the young oak tree; Unfolding in the vale serenely The rose was Ingeborg the queenly.In the garden of Hilding, the teacher, were two young children.Ingeborg was a princess, the daughter of a King of Norway. The boy,Frithiof, was a viking's son. Their fathers, King Bele and Thorsten,were good friends, and the children were brought up together in thehome of Hilding, their foster-father and teacher.Hilding
...was very fond of them both. He called the boy Frithiof an oak,for he was straight and strong. The little Ingeborg he called hisrose, she was so rosy and sweet.
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