P R K F A 0 K. VII much that will seem harsh and abrupt, bolli in wording and construction, to the polished ears of the 19th century, he could not help himself in these respects, his aim being to make a translation, not a paraphrase. In one passage only he has been forced to soften words, which the simple Norse tongue spoke out boldly with- out shame, but which our age, less inwardly pure perhaps, hut more outwardly sensitive to what is unseemly, cannot hear without a blush. After all the pains he has bestowed on his translation, he is well aware that faults are to he found in it, and that his renderings of doubtful passages, may not tally with those of others; hut in the gloom which still hangs over many customs of the Old Norsemen, and above all in the want of a good Glossary of their tongue, (for the collection of Bjorn Ilaldorson is poor and meagre in the extreme *) he trusts that his failings will he treated with mildness, since all may stumble in the dark. It was his intention to prefix a facsimile from a celebrated MS. of the Edda, preserved in the Library of the University of Upsala, *) May the Old Norse Glossary on which Mr. Cleasbv is said to be at work soon appear.

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