Frithiof's Homestead. (from The Swedish) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDCEFDGDHDHCCIC JCKHDLDDDMCDBNOPHQDC HDBD| Three miles extended around the fields of the homestead on three sides | A |
| Valleys and mountains and hills but on the fourth side was the ocean | B |
| Birch woods crowned the summits but down the slope of the hillsides | A |
| Flourished the golden corn and man high was waving the rye field | C |
| Lakes full many in number their mirror held up for the mountains | D |
| Held for the forests up in whose depths the high horned reindeers | D |
| Had their kingly walk and drank of a hundred brooklets | D |
| But in the valleys widely around there fed on the greensward | C |
| Herds with shining hides and udders that longed for the milk pail | E |
| 'Mid these scattered now here and now there were numberless flocks of | F |
| Sheep with fleeces white as thou seest the white looking stray clouds | D |
| Flock wise spread o'er the heavenly vault when it bloweth in springtime | G |
| Coursers two times twelve all mettlesome fast fettered storm winds | D |
| Stamping stood in the line of stalls and tugged at their fodder | H |
| Knotted with red were their manes and their hoofs all white with steel shoes | D |
| Th' banquet hall a house by itself was timbered of hard fir | H |
| Not five hundred men at ten times twelve to the hundred | C |
| Filled up the roomy hall when assembled for drinking at Yule tide | C |
| Through the hall as long as it was went a table of holm oak | I |
| Polished and white as of steel the columns twain of the High seat | C |
| Stood at the end thereof two gods carved out of an elm tree | J |
| Odin with lordly look and Frey with the sun on his frontlet | C |
| Lately between the two on a bear skin the skin it was coal black | K |
| Scarlet red was the throat but the paws were shodden with silver | H |
| Thorsten sat with his friends Hospitality sitting with Gladness | D |
| Oft when the moon through the cloudrack flew related the old man | L |
| Wonders from distant lands he had seen and cruises of Vikings | D |
| Far away on the Baltic and Sea of the West and the White Sea | D |
| Hushed sat the listening bench and their glances hung on the graybeard's | D |
| Lips as a bee on the rose but the Scald was thinking of Brage | M |
| Where with his silver beard and runes on his tongue he is seated | C |
| Under the leafy beech and tells a tradition by Mimer's | D |
| Ever murmuring wave himself a living tradition | B |
| Midway the floor with thatch was it strewn burned ever the fire flame | N |
| Glad on its stone built hearth and thorough the wide mouthed smoke flue | O |
| Looked the stars those heavenly friends down into the great hall | P |
| Round the walls upon nails of steel were hanging in order | H |
| Breastplate and helmet together and here and there among them | Q |
| Downward lightened a sword as in winter evening a star shoots | D |
| More than helmets and swords the shields in the hall were resplendent | C |
| White as the orb of the sun or white as the moon's disk of silver | H |
| Ever and anon went a maid round the hoard and filled up the drink horns | D |
| Ever she cast down her eyes and blushed in the shield her reflection | B |
| Blushed too even as she this gladdened the drinking champions | D |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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