Illustrations of Northern Antiquities from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances: Being an Abstract of the Book of Heroes, and Nibelungen Lay

by Henry William Weber, Walter Scott, Robert Jamieson

Book Overview

The poems, sagas and ballads of early Germanic and Scandinavian societies were a growing field of study in the English-speaking world around the turn of the nineteenth century. A trio of Scotsmen - the writer Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), antiquarian Robert Jamieson (1772-1844) and literary scholar Henry William Weber (1783-1818) - decided to contribute to this field by bringing together their work on 'romances' from the Old German, Danish, Swedish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108034802
• ISBN13: 9781108034807
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.6"