AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, RELIGION
AND LAWS, MARITIME EXPEDITIONS AND DISCOVERIES,

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURY

OF THE

ANCIENT SCANDINAVIANS,

(DANES, SWEDES, NORWEGIANS AND ICELANDERS.)

WITH INCIDENTAL NOTICES RESPECTING OUR SAXON ANCESTORS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. MALLET,
BY BISHOP PERCY.

NEW EDITION,

REVISED THROUGHOUT, AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED; WITH A TRANSLATION
OF THE PROSE EDDA FROM THE ORIGINAL OLD NORSE TEXT;

AND NOTES ORITICAL AND EXPLANATORY,

BY I. A. BLACKWELL, ESQ

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

AN ABSTRACT OF THE EYRBYGGJA SAGA,

By Sir Walter Scott.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1847