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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Page 435
... Icelandic has had to be learnt , the books that have been produced in the present century are too numerous for us ... language and literature which has hitherto been closed to all but the leisurely few , and makes it the inheritance of the ...
... Icelandic has had to be learnt , the books that have been produced in the present century are too numerous for us ... language and literature which has hitherto been closed to all but the leisurely few , and makes it the inheritance of the ...
Page 437
... Icelandic Commonwealth . Among these is even reckoned the highly documentary work , called the Landnáma- bók ... language boasts to possess the earliest philological treatise written in any Gothic language . Then there are works ...
... Icelandic Commonwealth . Among these is even reckoned the highly documentary work , called the Landnáma- bók ... language boasts to possess the earliest philological treatise written in any Gothic language . Then there are works ...
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... language in which it is enshrined . For , as we hope to be able to show , this language contains within itself the ... Icelandic language has almost all the rich store of its vocabulary in common with the other languages of the ...
... language in which it is enshrined . For , as we hope to be able to show , this language contains within itself the ... Icelandic language has almost all the rich store of its vocabulary in common with the other languages of the ...
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... Icelandic , which is the oldest form of those dialects , and which indeed represents the parent language from which they have all diverged . These dialects are , first of all , the two national languages of the Danish and Swedish ; then ...
... Icelandic , which is the oldest form of those dialects , and which indeed represents the parent language from which they have all diverged . These dialects are , first of all , the two national languages of the Danish and Swedish ; then ...
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... Icelandic -a name which we cannot avoid using , though we shall not use it to the exclusion of the name Danish in its old historic sense .. The Icelandic language is the representative of the old Danish ; . while modern Danish , though ...
... Icelandic -a name which we cannot avoid using , though we shall not use it to the exclusion of the name Danish in its old historic sense .. The Icelandic language is the representative of the old Danish ; . while modern Danish , though ...
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