Besse tiltaler Graa, Louis Moe, 1898

Besse tiltaler graa. The scene is described in gesta danorum in the following way: "gram, chancing to hear that groa, daughter of sigtryg, king of the swedes, was plighted to a certain giant, and holding accursed an union so unworthy of the blood royal, entered on a swedish war; being destined to emulate the prowess of hercules in resisting the attempts of monsters. He went into gothland, and, in order to frighten people out of his path, strode on clad in goats' skins, swathed in the motley hides of beasts, and grasping in his right hand a dreadful weapon, thus feigning the attire of a giant; when he met groa herself riding with a very small escort of women on foot, and making her way, as it chanced, to the forest-pools to bathe, she thought it was her betrothed who had hastened to meet her, and was scared with feminine alarm at so strange a garb: so, flinging up the reins, and shaking terribly all over, she began in the song of her country, thus:" elton's translation. Date: 1898.