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Illustrations of Northern Antiquities from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances

Illustrations of Northern Antiquities from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances

Weber, Henry William
Jamieson, Robert
Scott, Walter

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1108034802
ISBN13: 9781108034807
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 27 2011
Pages: 538
Weight: 1.87
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
The poems, sagas and ballads of early Germanic and Scandinavian societies were a growing field of study in the English-speaking world around the turn of the nineteenth century. A trio of Scotsmen - the writer Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), antiquarian Robert Jamieson (1772-1844) and literary scholar Henry William Weber (1783-1818) - decided to contribute to this field by bringing together their work on 'romances' from the Old German, Danish, Swedish and Icelandic languages, claiming that these poems and tales 'offer a new and interesting subject of speculation to the English reader'. In this volume, published in 1814, each editor contributes a related scholarly essay, but the bulk of the book is taken up with the translated tales, including the German Song of the Nibelungen. This work is an important early contribution by leading Scots scholars to the study and dissemination of such Northern European literary forms.

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