Corpus Poeticum Boreale the Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century Edited Classified and With Int...see more

Excerpt from Corpus Poeticum Boreale the Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century Edited Classified and With Introduction Excursus and NotesIt is to the credit of the Icelanders as a living people that it is not so. Yet such if he had formulated his creed would have been the Editor''s belief before he began to look for himself some twenty years ago into the state of literature and literary tradition in the middle ages and the post-reformation da...See More