The Legend of Fridthjof the Valiant is the noblest poetic contribution which Sweden has yet made to the literary history of the world. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<br><br>No poetical work of modern times stands forth so prominently and peculiarly a representative of the literature of a race and language as the Fridthjof's Saga of Esaias Tegnér. - Bayard Taylor.<br><br>In der Fridthjof's Sage verehrt das schwedische Volk seine lieblischste und berühmteste National-dichtung. - Gottlieb Mohmike, in the preface to the ninth edition of his German translation of the poem.