The Fiske Icelandic Collection in the Cornell University Library
A guest contribution by Patrick J. Stevens. I don’t see your point as to [Ludvig Franz Adalbert] Wimmer’s book on runes. The runes form the oldest known form of the Icelandic language. You might as well object to any of the oldest skaldic lays, produced in Norway […] that they had nothing to do with...
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NordicHistoryBlog
2013
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| Online Access: | http://nordichistoryblog.hypotheses.org/1751 |
| Summary: | A guest contribution by Patrick J. Stevens. I don’t see your point as to [Ludvig Franz Adalbert] Wimmer’s book on runes. The runes form the oldest known form of the Icelandic language. You might as well object to any of the oldest skaldic lays, produced in Norway […] that they had nothing to do with Iceland because Iceland didn’t then exist. We are including the Old-Northern tongue & literature of whatever epoch. Ask Dr. Finnur [Jónsson]. ((Daniel Willard Fiske to Halldór Hermannsson, 21 Octo. |
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