DANISH BALLADS -

Ancient Danish Ballads translated from the Originals by R.C. Alexander Prior. 3 Vols.

London a. Edinburgh, William and Norgate, 1860. 3 orig. full cloth, neathly rebacked, preserving orig. blindtooles and gilt spines. Covers blindtooled. LX,400;VIII,468;IX,500 pp. On inside front free endpaper: "From the author". Internally fine and clean.

First translations into English of selections from "folkevisor" (The Danish corpus of folksongs). The work also contains translations from the Old Norse Sagas. (Not in Klose and Fiske). In "Danske Studier" 1990 is found an article on this work by Larry Syndergaard: "An Amateur" and his Translations of the Danish Ballads - Identity and Significance", this article also present here.

Order-nr.: 41432