The Quarterly Review, Volume 139William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1875 |
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... Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris . London , 1869 . 12. Lilja ( The Lily ) ; an Icelandic Religious Poem of the Fourteenth Century . Edited , with a Metrical Translation , Notes , and Glossary , by Eirikr Magnus- son ...
... Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris . London , 1869 . 12. Lilja ( The Lily ) ; an Icelandic Religious Poem of the Fourteenth Century . Edited , with a Metrical Translation , Notes , and Glossary , by Eirikr Magnus- son ...
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... ( Icelandic Texts , with Glos- saries or Translations in Danish . ) 4. Grettis Saga . Ved G. Magnusson og G. Thorardson . Kjöbenhavn , 1853 . 5. Lexicon Poeticum Antiqua Lingua Septentrionalis . scripsit Sveinbjörn Egilsson . 6. Edda ...
... ( Icelandic Texts , with Glos- saries or Translations in Danish . ) 4. Grettis Saga . Ved G. Magnusson og G. Thorardson . Kjöbenhavn , 1853 . 5. Lexicon Poeticum Antiqua Lingua Septentrionalis . scripsit Sveinbjörn Egilsson . 6. Edda ...
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... Icelandic has had to be learnt , the books that have been produced in the present century are too numerous for us here to recite . It is the last on the list which now at length removes the difficulty of Icelandic study , and which ...
... Icelandic has had to be learnt , the books that have been produced in the present century are too numerous for us here to recite . It is the last on the list which now at length removes the difficulty of Icelandic study , and which ...
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... Icelandic literature is the droll homeliness of its book - titles , and the title Edda simply means Grandmother . This Edda is also spoken of as the elder Edda , and the poetical Edda , to distinguish it from a later collection of old ...
... Icelandic literature is the droll homeliness of its book - titles , and the title Edda simply means Grandmother . This Edda is also spoken of as the elder Edda , and the poetical Edda , to distinguish it from a later collection of old ...
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... Icelandic Commonwealth . Among these is even reckoned the highly documentary work , called the Landnáma- bók , ' that is , ' The Book of the Land - taking , ' or colonisation of the country ; which is for Iceland what the Domesday Book ...
... Icelandic Commonwealth . Among these is even reckoned the highly documentary work , called the Landnáma- bók , ' that is , ' The Book of the Land - taking , ' or colonisation of the country ; which is for Iceland what the Domesday Book ...
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