Henrik Ibsen wrote the following of his 1857 drama; The Vikings at Helgeland: "It was in the Icelandic family sagas that I found; in full measure; what I needed of human covering for the moods; ideas and thoughts of which I was full at that time; or of which I had at any rate a more or less clear idea. Up till then I had been ignorant; indeed hardly heard of; these ancient Nordic literary contributions to the history of the people of our saga times. By chance I got hold of N. M. Petersens excellent translation - excellent at least as regards the tone of the language. In these family chronicles with their various relationships and episodes between man and woman; woman and woman; altogether between human being and human being; I was met by lives of personal; rich; living content; and it was in living together with all these single; individual; personal women and men that the first raw; vague draft of The Vikings at Helgeland arose."
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