Illustrations of northern antiquities
Subtitle: from the earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian romances; being an abstract of the Book of heroes, and Nibelungen lay
By: with translations of metrical tales, from the Old German, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic languages; with notes and dissertations.
Contributors: Weber, Henry William, 1783-1818, ed.; Jamieson, Robert, 1780?-1844, joint ed.; Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832, joint ed.
Publisher: Printed by J. Ballantyne and co., for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London [etc.]
Published: 1814
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Scandinavian literature -- Translations into English; German literature -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- Translations into English
Notes: Edited by H. W. Weber, R. Jamieson and Sir Walter Scott.
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.
Table of contents: title: On the antient Teutonic poetry and romance. Das Heldenbuch; title: the Book of heroes.  Der Nibelungenlied.; title: The Song of the Nibelungen.  Die klage; title: 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.