Norraen fornkvaedi

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Sophus Bugge was a Norwegian philologist renowned for his work on Norwegian folk songs and ancient Norwegian inscriptions. He is particularly noted for his 1867 critical edition of the Poetic Edda, titled Norraen fornkvaedi. This Icelandic collection features 13th-century heroic and mythological poetry. Bugge proposed that the Edda's songs and earlier sagas were significantly influenced by Christian and Latin traditions brought to Scandinavia through England. His scholarly contributions were foundational in the study of Old Norse literature and philology.1

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Sophus Bugge
…(Oslo) from 1866, he published Norraen fornkvaedi, his edition of the Edda, in 1867. He maintained that the songs of the Edda and the earlier sagas were largely founded on Christian and Latin tradition imported to Scandinavia by way of England. Publication of his monumental edition of inscriptions began in…
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…(Oslo) from 1866, he published Norraen fornkvaedi, his edition of the Edda, in 1867. He maintained that the songs of the Edda and the earlier sagas were largely founded on Christian and Latin tradition imported to Scandinavia by way of England. Publication of his monumental edition of inscriptions began in…
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