The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature

by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby

1689. Bartholinus. Thomæ Bartholini Antiquitatum Danicarum de causis contemptæ a Danis adhuc gentilibus mortis libri III ex vetustis codicibus et monumentis hactenus ineditis congestæ. Hafniæ. 1689.

The pages of this book are filled, with extracts from Old Norse sagas and poetry which are translated into Latin. No student of the book could fail to get a considerable knowledge of the spirit and the form of the ancient literature.

1691. Verelius. Index linguæ veteris Scytho-Scandicæ sive Gothicæ ex vetusti ævi monumentis ... ed Rudbeck. Upsalæ. 1691.

1697. Torfæus.Orcades, seu rerum Orcadensium historiæ. Havniæ. 1697.

1697. Perinskjöld. Heimskringla, eller Snorre Sturlusons Nordländske Konunga Sagor. Stockholmiæ. 1697.

Contains Latin and Swedish translation.

1705. Hickes. Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico criticus et archæologicus. Oxoniæ. 1703-5.

This work is discussed later.

1716. Dryden. Miscellany Poems. Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets.... Published by Mr. Dryden. London. 1716.