=1636= and =1651=. Wormius. _Seu Danica literatura antiquissima, vulgo Gothica dicta, luci reddita opera Olai Wormii. Cui accessit de prisca Danorum Poesi Dissertatio._ Hafniæ. 1636. Edit. II. 1651. The essay on poetry contains interlinear Latin translations of the _Epicedium_ of Ragnar Loðbrók, and of the _Drápa_ of Egill Skallagrímsson. Bound with the second edition of 1651, and bearing the date 1650, is: _Specimen Lexici runici, obscuriorum quarundam vocum, quæ in priscis occurrunt historiis et poetis Danicis enodationem exhibens. Collectum a Magno Olavio pastore Laufasiensi, ... nunc in ordinem redactum, auctum et locupletatum ab Olao Wormio_. Hafniæ. This glossary adduces illustrations from the great poems of Icelandic literature. Thus early the names and forms of the ancient literature were known. =1665.= Resenius. _Edda Islandorum an. Chr. MCCXV islandice conscripta per Snorronem Sturlæ Islandiæ. Nomophylacem nunc primum islandice, danice et latine ... Petri Johannis Resenii_ ... Havniæ. 1665. A second part contains a disquisition on the philosophy of the _Völuspá_ and the _Hávamál_. =1670.= Sheringham. _De Anglorum Gentis Origine Disceptatio. Qua eorum migrationes, variæ sedes, et ex parte res gestæ, a confusione Linguarum, et dispersione Gentium, usque ad adventum eorum in Britanniam investigantur; quædam de veterum Anglorum religione, Deorum cultu, eorumque opinionibus de statu animæ post hanc vitam, explicantur._ _Authore_ Roberto Sheringhamo. Cantabrigiæ. 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. _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.