a literary masterpiece that showed that the brilliant mind had not been
dimmed.

His mental and physical ailments grew steadily worse and after 1840 there
came periods of insanity which expressed itself in the most chimerical
plans for travel, literary activities, and great national enterprises.
Light came to his reason again, but his strength had been permanently
broken. He died on November 2, 1846, and his body was laid to rest in the
cemetery at Växiö, where a simple monument of marble and Swedish granite
marks his final resting place.




FRITIOFS SAGA


I.

FRITIOF OCH INGEBORG.

Där växte uti Hildings gård 1
två plantor under fostrarns vård.
Ej Norden förr sett två så sköna,
de växte härligt i det gröna.

Den ena som en ek sköt fram, 2
och som en lans är hennes stam;
men kronan, som i vinden skälver,
liksom en hjälm sin rundel välver.