ANCIENT DANES,

And other Northern Nations;
Including those of

Our own SAXON ANCESTORS.

WITH

A Tranflation of the EDDA, or
Syftem of RUNIC MYTHOLOGY,

AND

OTHER PIECES,

From the Ancient ISLANDIC Tongue.
In TWO VOLUMES.

TRANSLATED

From Monf. MALLE T's Introduction a l' Hiftoire
de Dannemarc, &c.

With Additional NOTES

By the English Tranflator,

AND

Goranfon's Latin Verfion of the EDDA.

VOLUME I.

LONDON:

Printed for T. CARNAN and Co. at No. 65. in

St. Paul's Church-yard.

MDCC LXX.

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TO HIS GRACE

THE

DUK E

O.F

NORTHUMBERLAND.

My LORD,

T

HE following work is infcribed to your Grace with the moft genuine respect, and, I flatter myself, not without propriety, fince it may poffibly afford : amusement to one of the most polished Noblemen of the present age, to obferve from what rude and fimple beginnings our highest improvements have been derived; and to trace, to their fource, thofe peculiarities of character, manners and government, which fo remarkably diftinguish the Teutonic nations.

Among the hiftorical digreffions which our Author has fcattered through his work, is a full relation of the firft fettlement of the NORMANS in France. This cannot