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
Literature -- Translations into English -- Bibliography
[_Tr._ of the sagas of Thorstein Viking's son and Fridthiof the
Bold; with G. W. Stevens' _tr._ of Tegnérs Fridthiofs saga.]
VÖLSUNGA SAGA. _Tr._ by Eirikr Magnússon and Wm. Morris, 1876.
=Sagas, Folk-Tales, etc., Anthologies, Collections.=
ANDERSON, R. B. _Tr._ NORSE MYTHOLOGY the religion of our
Forefathers, 1875.
[Contains all the myths of the Eddas systematized and
interpreted with notes and vocabulary.]
ANDERSON, RASMUS B. THE FOLKLORE OF NORWAY. [1895.]
ARNASON, Jon. _Ed._ ICELANDIC LEGENDS. _Tr._ Powell and Magnússon. 2
ser. 1862-65.
ASBJORNSEN. POPULAR TALES FROM THE NORSE. _Translated_ by H. L.
Brækstad. 1881. [_Trs._ from the "Norske Folkeeventyr" 1842.
Collected by Asbjornsen and Mol. _Tr._ by G. W. Dasent, 1859.]
---- ROUND THE YULE LOG: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales. 1882.
[A re-translation, by Brækstad, of the collection originally
_tr._ by Dasent in 1859.]
---- TALES FROM THE FJELD. A record of popular tales from the Norse
of P. C. Asbjörnsen, 1874.
[From the Norske Huldreeventyr of Folkesagn, 1845-8; and
Folkventyr, 1871.]
BUCHANAN, R. _Tr._ BALLAD STORIES OF THE AFFECTIONS. 1866.
BUSHBY, MRS. _Tr._ THE DANES SKETCHED BY THEMSELVES. A Series of
popular stories by the best Danish authors. 3 v. 1864.
CORPUS POETICUM BOREALE. _Ed._ by G. Vigfússon and F. York Powell, 2
v. 1883.
[An admirable text and translation of the whole body of
ancient Icelandic legends and lays, to the 13th cent.]. 'An
epoch-making book'.
DASENT, SIR G.W. POPULAR TALES FROM THE NORSE [_tr._ of Asbjörnsen].
_Ed._ 1859.
_See above under_ Asbjörnsen.
DASENT, Sir G. W. TALES FROM THE FJELD. _Tr._ 1874.
EIVIND, R. _Ed. and Tr._ FINNISH LEGENDS, 1893.
[_Tr_. of thirty-eight stories from the 'Kalevala'.]
GRIMM, JACOB. TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY. _Tr._ by J. S. Stallybras, 3 v. and
suppl. 1-3, 1879-89.
[The great standard work on Teutonic (Germ., Scan., and
English) mythology, first published in 1835.]
MURRAY, E. C. GRENVILLE. _Tr._ NATIONAL SONGS AND LEGENDS OF
ROUMANIA. 1859.
POWELL, F. Y. _and_ G. MAGNUSSON. _Tr._ ICELANDIC LEGENDS. _Ed._ by
Ion Arnasson. 1864-66.
PRIOR, R. C. _Tr._ ANCIENT DANISH BALLADS. 3. v. 1860.
RALSTON, W. R. S. _Tr._ SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE. 1872.
RINK, HENRY. _Tr._ TALES AND TRADITIONS OF THE ESKIMO. 1875.
STEPHENS, G. _and_ H. CAVALLIUS. _Ed._ OLD NORSE FAIRY TALES. _Tr._
1882.
THORPE, BENJ. NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY. 3 v. 1852.
VICARY, J. F. _Tr._ THE STORK'S NEST AND OTHER TALES. _Tr._ 1886.
READINGS FROM THE DANE: SHORT STORIES. _Tr._ 1886.
YULE-TIDE STORIES. Scandinavian and North German. 1853.
=SAINT PIERRE, BERNARD DE.= _b._ 1737, _d._ 1814. =French writer.=
THE INDIAN COTTAGE. _Tr._ by E. A. Kendal, 1791.
PAUL AND VIRGINIA; an Indian story. 2 v. 1789.
PAUL AND VIRGINIA. _Tr._ by H. M. Williams, 1796.
STUDIES OF NATURE. _Tr._ by H. Hunter, 1796.
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