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Illustrations of Northern Antiquities from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances - Being an Abstract of the Book of Heroes, and Nibelungen Lay (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,407
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Illustrations of Northern Antiquities from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances - Being an Abstract of the Book of...

Illustrations of Northern Antiquities from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances - Being an Abstract of the Book of Heroes, and Nibelungen Lay (Paperback)

Henry William Weber, Robert Jamieson, Walter Scott

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Release date: October 2011
First published: June 2011
Editors: Henry William Weber • Robert Jamieson • Walter Scott
Dimensions: 244 x 170 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-03480-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN: 1-108-03480-2
Barcode: 9781108034807

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