Illustrations of northern antiquities, from the earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian romances
Subtitle: being an abstract of the Book of heroes, and Nibelungen lay; with translations of metrical tales, from the Old German, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic languages; with notes and dissertations.
Contributors: Jamieson, Robert, 1780?-1844; Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832.; Weber, Henry William, 1783-1818.
Publisher: Printed by J. Ballantyne, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London
Published: 1814
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Romances -- Collections
Notes: Edited by H.W. Weber, R. Jamieson and Sir Walter Scott.
Table of contents: value: On the antient Teutonic poetry and romance.  Das Heldenbuch - the Book of heroes.  Der Nibelungenlied - The Song of the Nibelungen.  Die klage - the lament.  Fragment of a prose romance (Hildebrandslied) in the Saxon dialect of the Teutonic, written about the eighth century, and printed from a manuscript preserved in Cassel, in Eccardi Comment. de rebus Franciae orientalis. The song of Old Hildebrand.  The battle of King Tidrich and the lion with the linden-worm.  Edited by H.W. Weber.- Popular heroic and romantic ballads, tr. from the Northern languages, with notes and illustrations, by R. Jamieson.-  Abstract of the Eyrbiggiasaga; being the early annals of that district of Iceland lying around the promontory called Snaefells, by W.S. [i.e. Sir Walter Scott] Glossary, by R. Jamieson.