Magnusarkver: The Writing of Magnus Olafsson of Laufus.~(book reviews)

Publication: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Publication Date: 01-JUL-96

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COPYRIGHT 1996 University of Illinois Press

By Anthony Faulkes. (Stofnun Arna Magnussonar a Islandi Rit, 40.) Reykjavik: Stofnun Arna Magnussonar, 1993. Pp. 144. Ikr. 3,500.

The subject of this book is the poet, scholar, and priest Magnus Olafsson (ca. 1573-1636). A prolific and diverse writer, Magnus Olafsson's works span a dictionary of the older Icelandic language, poetry, both devotional and secular, interpretations of Old Icelandic poems, and personal and professional correspondence with Arngrimur Jonsson...

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