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1852 1st ed Norse Viking Mythology Literature Sweden

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1852 1st ed Norse Viking Mythology Literature Sweden Iceland Norway Legend Saga

The work ‘The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe’ by the Howitt’s is a compilation of the history of the myths and legends of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland used later by Longfellow and Edmund Goose.

“The Howitts were important in their time as supporters of the romantics poets, the Pre-Raphaelites, electoral reform, women’s rights, improved factory conditions, international copyright laws, and other significant Victorian movements.” (Mitchell)

The Howitts’ include information on Viking discoveries of Iceland, Greenland, and America, Scandinavian Eddas and Sagas, Odinic Mythology, Yggdrasil and Ragnarök, runes, the German Nibelungen Lied, nursery tales, Swedish and Elfin ballads, Danish Tragedy, operas, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, Hans Christian Andersen, King Arthur, Charlemagne, French school of literature in Sweden, Scotch and Swedish languages, and much more!

This 1852 two-volume first edition is bound in an embossed cloth binding!

Item number: #11380

Price: $350

HOWITT, William & Mary

The literature and romance of northern Europe : constituting a complete history of the literature of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, with copious specimens of the most celebrated histories, romances, popular legends and tales ... ballads ... dramas, national and favourite songs, novels, and scenes from the life of the present day

London: Colburn and Co., 1852. First Edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages

2 volumes

Volume I- xvi, 464, 24

Volume II- xi, 465, 16

References: Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia by Sally Mitchell;

Language: English

Binding: Cloth; tight and secure

Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 12.5cm)

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