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EDITOR'S PREFACE.
Henne am Rhyn’s “Kulturgeschichte” is given as a frontispiece to the translation.
Those who wish to study more closely the interesting questions surrounding the history of the poem are referred to the works of Raszmann and Simrock; to Magnússon and Morris's translations of the Icelandic Sagas; and to a recent work by Prof. Ker on “Epic and Romance.” A popular and well-written account of the relations between the Teutonic and Scandinavian versions of the legend will be found in an interesting little book, entitled “Legends of the Wagner Drama,” by Miss J. L. Weston.
December, 1897.
