RASK, RASMUS. - A FOUNDING WORK IN NORDIC PHILOLOGY.

Undersögelse om det Gamle Nordiske eller islandske Sprogs Oprindelse. Et af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes selskab kronet Prisskrift.

Kjöbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1818. Samt.hldrbd. med rig tidstypisk rygforgyldning. Kapitæler en smule slidt. XII,312 pp. Rent eksemplar.

Originaludgaven af Prisskriftet, Rasks hovedværk, og et grunlæggende arbejde i Nordisk Sprogvidenskab.

First edition of Rask's main work, a founding work in Nordic Philology as he was the first to study the ancient Nordic languages systematically and discovered the correspondance of consonant relations between the Indo-European languages which led Jacob Grimm to formulate the rules underlying the Germanic as well as the High-German sound-shifts.

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