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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)
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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)
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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