The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature.

The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature.

=1691.= Verelius. Index linguae veteris Scytho-Scandicae sive Gothicae ex vetusti aevi monumentis ... ed Rudbeck. Upsalae. 1691.

=1697=.  Torfaeus. Orcades, seu rerum Orcadensium historiae.  Havniae. 1697.

=1697=.  Perinskjoeld. Heimskringla, eller Snorre Sturlusons Nordlaendske Konunga Sagor.  Stockholmiae. 1697.

Contains Latin and Swedish translation.

=1705=.  Hickes. Linguarum Vett.  Septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico criticus et archaeologicus.  Oxoniae. 1703-5.

This work is discussed later.

=1716=.  Dryden. Miscellany Poems.  Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets....  Published by Mr. Dryden.  London. 1716.

=1720=.  Keysler. Antiquitates selectae septentrionales et Celticae quibus plurima loca conciliorum et capitularium explanantur, dogmata theologiae ethnicae Celtarum gentiumque septentrionalium cum moribus et institutis maiorum nostrorum circa idola, aras, oracula, templa, lucos, sacerdotes, regum electiones, comitia et monumenta sepulchralia una cum reliquiis gentilismi in coetibus christianorum ex monumentis potissimum hactenus ineditis fuse perquiruntur. Autore Joh.  Georgio Keysler.  Hannoverae. 1720.

=1755=.  Mallet. Introduction a l’Histoire de Dannemarc ou l’on traite de la Religion, des Lois, des Moeurs, et des Usages des Anciens Danois.  Par M. Mallet.  Copenhague. 1755.

Discussed later.

=1756=.  Mallet. Monumens de la Mythologie et la Poesie des Celtes et particulierement des anciens Scandinaves ...  Par M. Mallet.  Copenhague. 1756.

=1763=.  Percy. Five Pieces of Runic Poetry translated from the Islandic Language.  London. 1763.

This book is described on a later page.

=1763=.  Blair. A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal. [By Hugh Blair.] London. 1763.

=1770=.  Percy. Northern Antiquities:  or a description of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws of the ancient Danes, and other Northern Nations; including these of our own Saxon Ancestors.  With a translation of the Edda or System of Runic Mythology, and other Pieces from the Ancient Icelandic Tongue.  Translated from M. Mallet’s Introduction a l’Histoire de Dannemarc.  London. 1770.

=1774=.  Warton. The History of English Poetry.  By Thomas Warton.  London. 1774-81.

In this book the prefatory essay entitled “On the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe” is significant.  It is treated at length later on.

SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE (1628-1699).

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