Author:George Webbe Dasent

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George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896)

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English writer, was born in St. Vincent, West Indies, the son of the attorney general of that island

Works

• The Story of Burnt Njal (Project Gutenberg) (Edinburgh, 1861)
• Popular Tales from the Norse (Edinburgh, 1859)
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon: old tales from the North
• 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)
• The Story of Gisli the Outlaw (Edinburgh, 1866)
• Annals of an Eventful Life (1870)
• Three to One (1872)
• Half a Life (1874)
• Jest and Earnest (1873)
• Tales from the Fjeld (1874) (transcription project)
• The Vikings of the Baltic (1875)

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 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.