necessary, previous to the publication of this Runic Dictionary, to go through the various existing inscriptions until it presented itself. Now, however, thanks to Dr. Dieterich, every word existing in the two thousand inscriptions to which we have alluded, may instantly be referred to, an advantage which those who have endeavoured to ferret out the meaning of one of these mystic records can alone sufficiently appreciate.
Before concluding our notice of this useful volume, we must add, that the earlier sheets contain some valuable notes, by our countryman Mr. George W. Dasent, whose translations of the Prose, or Younger Edda, and of Rask's Grammar of the Icelandic, or Old Norse Tongue, have established his reputation both in Sweden and his own "Fatherland," as an accomplished philologist, and a successful investigator of the early forms of the old Scandinavian and Teutonic languages.
LIST OF RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.
Extract from the Preface.—"The Translation of Gervase, which it is the principal object of the following history to illustrate, was read by me with a few necessary omissions at the evening meeting of the Architectural Section of the British Archæological Association on the 11th of September, 1844. . . . . . . The work may therefore be considered as forming part of the Transactions of the Association, although it is obviously too bulky and independent for insertion in the Journal, which is the recognised organ of that body."
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