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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; with translations of metrical tales, from the Old German, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic languages; with notes and dissertations.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
- Icelandic
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Translations from foreign languages.
- English literature.
- Scandinavian literature--Translations into English.
- Scandinavian literature.
- German literature--Middle High German, 1050-1500--Translations into English.
- German literature.
- German literature--Middle High German.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 522 pages ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ballantyne and co., for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London [etc.], 1814.
- Contents:
- On the antient Teutonic poetry and romance. Das Heldenbuch
- the Book of heroes. Der Nibelungenlied
- the Song of the Nibelungen. Die klage
- the lament. Fragment of a prose romance (Hildebrandslied) in the Saxon dialect of the Teutonic, written about the eighth century, and printed from a manuscript preserved in Cassel, in Eccardi Comment. de rebus Franciae orientalis. The song of Old Hildebrand. The battle of King Tidrich and the lion with linden-worm. Edited by H. W. Weber.
- Notes:
- Edited by H. W. Weber, R. Jamieson and Sir Walter Scott.
- Popular heroic and romantic ballads, tr. from the Northern languages, with notes and illustrations, by R. Jamieson.
- Abstract of the Eyrbiggiasaga; being the early annals of that district of Iceland lying around the promontory called Snfells, by W. S. [i.e. Sir Walter Scott] Glossary, by R. Jamieson.
- OCLC:
- 634089
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