The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English LiteratureHarris, William James
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The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature
Harris, William James
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WILSON, C. T. _Tr._ RUSSIAN LYRICS IN ENGLISH VERSE. 1887.
=SADI= (=SHEIKH MUSLIH ADDIN=). _b._ 1184, _d._ 1292.
THE GÛLISTÂN OF MUSLE-HADDEEN SHAIK SADY OF SHEERAZ. _Tr._ by Francis
Gladwin, 1806.
THE PERSIAN AND ARABICK WORKS OF SADÉE. _Ed._ by J. H. Harrington,
1791-5.
SELECT FABLES FROM GÛLISTÂN, or THE RED OF ROSES. _Tr._ by S.
Sulivan, 1774.
=SAGAS.=
'The Icelandic Sagas'--the prose histories of the fortunes of
the great Icelandic houses--are the last, and also the finest,
expression and record of the spirit and the ideas belonging
properly to the Germanic race in its own right, and not derived
from Rome or Christendom'.
An immense imaginative literature is growing up around the
Sagas. To mention only a few prominent writers who have
received their inspiration from these sources, we have,
Baring-Gould in 'Grettir the Outlaw' (1889), the works of Henty
and Ballantyne, R. Leighton's 'Olaf the Glorious' (1894), Du
Chaillu's 'Olaf the Viking' (1893), Kingsley's 'Hereward',
etc., Longfellow, W. Morris in 'Sigurd' and 'Earthly Paradise',
and Arnold's 'Balder Dead', etc., etc.
BANDED MEN, THE. _Tr._ by Wm. Morris and Eirikr Magnússon. Saga
Library. 1890.
EDDA SAEMUNDAR. _Tr._ by B. Thorpe, 1866.
[Mallet's 'Northern Antiquities' contains a tr. of Edda
Saemundar 1851.]
EDDA SAEMUNDAR. Selections from. _Tr._ by Wm. Morris, 1877.
[Some of the songs from the above are _tr._ by Morris in his
'Sigurd the Volsung' and 'Niblungs'.]
EDDA STURLUSONART. [The Prose of Younger Edda.] _Tr._ by Sir G. W.
Dasent, 1842.
EGILS SKALLAGRIMSSON SAGA. [10th century.] _Tr._ by Rev. W. C. Green,
1893. [An Icelandic family history of the 9th and 10th centuries.]
Ranks high among the sagas of action and adventure. Gives a
lively account of the first settlers in Iceland.
EYRBYGGJA SAGA. _Tr._ by Sir W. Scott. _Tr._ _in_ P. H. Mallet's
Northern Antiquities, 1847.
Tr. also by Wm. Morris and [1] Eirikr Magnússon (1892), who
describe it as 'a mixture of a saga, or dramatically told tale,
and a chronicle record of events outside its aim and purpose'.
Period, 884-1031; principal events between 986-98. Written
between 1230-60, according to Vigfússon. 'Unquestionably the
oldest of all the sagas of Iceland'.
[1] Includes also a _tr._ of Heiôarviga Saga, 'Story of the
Heath-Slayings'.
GISLI THE OUTLAW, STORY OF. _Tr._ by Sir G. W. Dasent, 1866.
GRETTIR SAGA. _Tr._ by Eirikr Magnússon and Wm. Morris. 1869.
HAMLET IN ICELAND. _Tr._ by I. Gollancz, 1898.
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