fusione
Linguarum, et dispersione Gentium, usque ad adventum eorum in Britanniam
investigantur; quaedam de veterum Anglorum religione, Deorum cultu,
eorumque opinionibus de statu animae post hanc vitam, explicantur._
_Authore_ Roberto Sheringhamo. Cantabrigiae. 1670.
Chapter XII contains an account of Odin extracted from the _Edda_,
Snorri Sturluson and others.
=1679-92.= Temple. Two essays: "Of Heroic Virtue," "Of Poetry,"
contained in The Works of Sir William Temple. London. 1757. Vol. 3, pp.
304-429.
=1689.= Bartholinus. _Thomae Bartholini Antiquitatum Danicarum de
causis contemptae a Danis adhuc gentilibus mortis libri III ex vetustis
codicibus et monumentis hactenus ineditis congestae._ Hafniae. 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 linguae veteris Scytho-Scandicae sive Gothicae
ex vetusti aevi monumentis ... ed Rudbeck._ Upsalae. 1691.
=1697=. Torfaeus. _Orcades, seu rerum Orcadensium historiae_. Havniae.
1697.
=1697=. Perinskjoeld. _Heimskringla, eller Snorre Sturlusons
Nordlaendske Konunga Sagor_. Stockholmiae. 1697.
Contains Latin and Swedish translation.
=1705=. Hickes. _Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium thesaurus
grammatico criticus et archaeologicus_. Oxoniae. 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.
=1720=. Keysler. _Antiquitates selectae septentrionales et Celticae
quibus plurima loca conciliorum et capitularium explanantur, dogmata
theologiae ethnicae Celtarum gentiumque septentrionalium cum moribus et
institutis maiorum nostrorum circa idola, aras, oracula, templa, lucos,
sacerdotes, regum electiones, comitia et monumenta sepulchralia una cum
reliquiis gentilismi in coetibus christianorum ex monumentis potissimum
hactenus ineditis fuse perquiruntur._ _Autore_ Joh. Georgio Keysler.
Hannoverae. 1720.
=1755=. Mallet. _Introduction a l'Histoire de Dannemarc ou l'on
traite de la Religion, des Lois, des Moeurs, et des Usages des Anciens
Danois. Par_ M. Mallet. Copenhague. 1755.
Discussed later.
=1756=. Mallet. _Monumens de la Mythologie et la Poesie des Celtes et
particulierement des anciens Scandina
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