Research Catalog

Title

The British Edda, the great epic poem of the ancient Britons on the exploits of King Thor, Arthur or Adam and his knights in establishing civilization, reforming Eden & capturing the Holy Grail about 3380-3350 B.C. Reconstructed for first time from the medieval mss. by Babylonian, Hittite, Egyptian, Trojan & Gothic keys, and done literally into English by L. A. Waddell, with 30 plates & 162 text illustrations of scenes from Sumerian, British & other ancient monuments, maps, foreward, introduction, notes & glossary.

Publication

London, Chapman & Hall, ltd., 1930.

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Details

Additional Authors

Waddell, L. A. (Laurence Austine), 1854-1938.

Description

lxxxii p., 1 ͠., 331, [1] p. illus., xxix (i. e. 31) pl. (incl. front., facsim.) on 30 ͠., 2 fold. maps.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Eddas
• Mythology, Indo-European
• Sumerians
• Britons

Note

• "The Edda, as now reconstructed in sequence from its hitherto disjointed lays, is disclosed to be all unsuspectedly the great national epic of the ancient Britons of the pre-Christian period."--Foreword.

Call Number

NID (1930) (Edda Sæmundar. British Edda)

LCCN

30033586

OCLC

13371259

Title

The British Edda, the great epic poem of the ancient Britons on the exploits of King Thor, Arthur or Adam and his knights in establishing civilization, reforming Eden & capturing the Holy Grail about 3380-3350 B.C. Reconstructed for first time from the medieval mss. by Babylonian, Hittite, Egyptian, Trojan & Gothic keys, and done literally into English by L. A. Waddell, with 30 plates & 162 text illustrations of scenes from Sumerian, British & other ancient monuments, maps, foreward, introduction, notes & glossary.

Imprint

London, Chapman & Hall, ltd., 1930.

Added Author

Waddell, L. A. (Laurence Austine), 1854-1938. Translator

Research Call Number

NID (1930) (Edda Sæmundar. British Edda)