A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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Gray refers to him in his notes on "The Descent of Odin," and his work continued to be popular authority on its subject for at least half a century. Scott cites it in his annotations on "The Lay of the Last Minstrel " (1805). Gray's studies in Runic literature took shape in "The Fatal Sisters " and " The Descent of Odin," written in 1 76 1, published in 1768. These were paraphrases of two poems which Gray found in the "De Causis Con- temnendae Mortis " (Copenhagen, 1689) of Thomas Bartholin, a ...Danish physician of the seventeenth century. The first of them describes the Valkyrie weaving the fates of the Danish and Irish warriors in the battle of Clontarf, fought in the eleventh century between Sigurd, Earl of Orkney, and Brian, King of Dublin; the second narrates the descent of Odin to Niflheimer, to inquire of Hela concerning the doom of Balder.* Gray had designed these for the intro- * For a full discussion of Gray's sources and of his knowledge of Old Norse, the reader should consult the appendix by Professor G.
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