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ADVERTISEMENT.
WE have now seen the end of M. Mallet’s Introduction a l’ Histoire de Dannemark, and here the present Work might properly enough have been concluded: but as this Second Volume falls short in size of the preceding, the English Translator thought he should make a very acceptable present to the learned Reader, if he subjoined by way of Supplement, the Latin Version of the Edda by Mr. Goranson, whom our Author has mentioned in the Introduction to this Volume. By comparing this Version with the preceding one from the French, the genuine literal sense of the original will the more compleatly be attained: And in illustrating so ancient and so peculiar a Composition, no kind of assistance will be found superfluous. It may be a farther recommendation of the following pages, that Mr. Goranson’s Latin Version, (which, however barbarous and unclassical, is yet esteemed literally exact) is in itself a great curiosity, as his own book will probably
