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

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURY

OP THE

ANCIENT SCANDINAVIANS,

(DANES, SWEDES, NORWEGIANS AND ICELANDERS.)

WITH INCIDENTAL KOTICES RESPECTING OUR SAXON ANCESTORS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. MALLET,

BY BISHOP PERCY.

NEW EDITION,

REVISED THROUGHOUT, AND OONSIDERABLY ENLARGED; WITH A TRANSLATION
OP TRE PROSE EDDA PROM THE ORIGINAL OLD NORSE TEXT;

AND NOTKS CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY,

BY I. A. BLACKWELL, ESQ

TO WHICH IS ADDRD,

AN

ABSTRACT OF THE EYRBYGGJA SAGA,

By Sir Walter Scott.

LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1847