Author:George Webbe Dasent

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George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896)

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English translator from the Scandinavian languages; was born in St. Vincent, West Indies, the son of the attorney general of that island.

Works

• The Prose or Younger Edda (1842)
• (tr.) A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue by Erasmus Rask (1843)
• Theophilus, in Icelandic, Low German, and Other Tongues (1845)
• (tr.) "Audun and His White Bear" in Once a Week, Series 1, 1 (1859), from the Saga of King Harold Sigardson
• Popular Tales from the Norse (1859)
• (tr.) "An Old-fashioned Christmas-Eve" in Once a Week, Series 1, 1 (1859), translation of "En gammeldags Juleaften" (1843) by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
• The Story of Burnt Njal (1861) (external scan)
• (tr.) "Thorr's Hunt for His Hammer" in Once a Week, Series 1, 4 (1861), translation from the Poetic Edda
• (tr.) "The Dung-beetle" in Once a Week, Series 1, 4 (1861), translation of "Skarnbassen" (1861) by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Story of Gisli the Outlaw (1866)
• Annals of an Eventful Life (1870)
• Three to One (1872)
• Jest and Earnest (1873)
• Half a Life (1874)
• Tales from the Fjeld (1874) (transcription project)
• The Vikings of the Baltic (1875)
• The Story of Burnt Njal, abridged (Project Gutenberg, 1900)
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North (1922) (Project Gutenberg)

Works about Dasent

• "Dasent, Sir George Webbe," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Dasent, George Webbe," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Dasent, Sir George Webbe," in Men-at-the-Bar (2nd ed.), by Foster, J., London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, Limited (1885)
• "Dasent, (Sir) George Webbe," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.