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Excerpt from Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, Vol. 9: Scandinavian Influences in the English Romantic Movement
Descent of Odin, in 1768, he felt obliged to append to the text certain explanations which implied that cultivated Englishmen of his time could hardly be expected to understand simple allusions to the elements of Scandinavian mythology. Half a century later, on the other hand, an English poet who looked to the Norse Eddas or sagas for his inspiration could be sure that a good share of his readers, though they might feel on rather less familiar terms with the deities of Valhalla than with those of Olympus, would at any rate find allusions to Odin, Thor, Freyr, or Loki perfectly intelli gible.l An attempt is made in the following pages to trace the steps by which various adventures of the old Scandinavian gods and sundry exploits of the Norse vikings, for a long time known in England only to a few painful antiquaries, gradually became more or less familiar to the English people at large.
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