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. [Anon].

Date:
1814
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Publication/Creation

Edinburgh : Printed by James Ballantyne and co., for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London [etc.], 1814.

Physical description

ix, 522 pages ; (4to)

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 Snaefells, by W. S. [i.e. Sir Walter Scott] Glossary, by R. Jamieson.

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 the linden-worm. Edited by H. W. Weber

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