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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
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available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
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keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
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available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Thomas Percy was the first serious translator of Old
Norse-Icelandic poetry into English. He published his Five Pieces
of Runic Poetry in London in 1763 and in 1770 published his
translation of Mallet's very influential work on early Scandinavian
literature and culture as Northern Antiquities (with extensive
annotations and additions by Percy himself). In publishing Five
Pieces, Percy was influenced by the success of Macpherson's first
volume of Ossian poetry (1760) and his own wide-ranging interest in
ancient, especially 'gothic' poetry. Five Pieces had a mixed
reception and was never republished as a separate work, but
reappeared as an appendix to the second edn. of Northern
Antiquities. Nevertheless, it was a seminal work in the history of
reception and understanding of Old Norse poetry in Britain and it
also has more general significance in our understanding of the
development of the discipline of Old Norse-Icelandic studies. This
work makes available to the modern scholarly community the work of
one of the pioneers of the discipline and produces in easily
accessible format a text that is currently only available as a rare
book. The study comprises a facsimile of the 1763 edition, with
facing-page notes to allow the modern reader to situate Percy's
work in its intellectual context, together with an introduction on
Percy himself, his work on Old Norse-Icelandic studies, and the
contemporary context of the reception of Old Norse poetry in
Britain (and to some extent in the rest of Europe). In addition,
this study publishes eight other poetic translations (one from Old
English and the others from Old Icelandic) that Percy completed
about the same time as the translations now in Five Pieces of Runic
Poetry, but did not then publish, due to the restrictions of
contemporary tolerance for demanding or difficult 'ancient' poetry.
This publication reveals his full range as a translator for the
first time.
Excerpt from Thomas Percy Und William Shenstone: Ein Briefwechsel
Aus Der Entstehungszeit Der Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Damals nannte Percy's Mitarbeiter und Korrespondent Ro bert
Anderson, der Herausgeber der British Poets, in einem Nachruf auf
den dahingegangenen Freund die Religues of Ancient English Poetry
'a work which constitutes an era in the history of English
literature in the eighteenth und auch vor der strengen Kritik der
neuesten Forschung ist diese hohe Bewertung zu vollem Rechte
bestehen geblieben. Die ersten Worte der Vorrede, durch die Sir
George Douglas Miss Gaussen's gerade veroffentlichter
percy-biographie 2) seinen Segen erteilt, lauten: 'there are few
modern books to which the much-abused epithet of 'epochmaking' is
more applicable than to Bishop Percy's 'reliques' An ahnlich
lautenden Urteilen von andern, berufensten Seiten ist kein
Mangelz3) Wir erkennen riickschauend in den Religues eine
befreiende Tat von augenblicklich zundender Wirkung, die sie
Young's Sendschreiben uber Originalkomposition und Mac pherson's
Ossianischen Gedichten, Chatterton's Traumen vom Mittelalter und
Horace Walpole's groteskem Schauerroman vom Schlosse von Otranto
neben oder fiberordnet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books
publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find
more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an
important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art
technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the
original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged
copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a
blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do,
however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully;
any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve
the state of such historical works.
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Northern Antiquities - Or, a Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion, and Laws of the Ancient Danes Including Those of Our Own Saxon Ancestors: With a Translation of the Edda, Or System of Runic Mythology, ...: The Edda: Or, Ancient Icelandic Myth (Hardcover)
Thomas Percy, Paul Henri Mallet, Johann Göransson
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