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fall into the hands of very few Readers in this kingdom. This Latin Version was published a few years ago at the foot of a correct edition of the Edda in 4to, accompanied with another translation into the Swedish language, and prefaced with a long Swedish dissertation, “De Eddæ antiquitate, et indole, &c. ut et de antiquissimis et genuinis Skythis, Getis, Gothis, Atlantis, Hyperboreis, Cimbris, Gallis, eorumque Satore Gomero.”
If the preceding Version from M. Mallet should be found in some places to differ pretty much from this of Mr. Goranson, we probably must not attribute it wholly to the freedom, with which the former has sometimes paraphrased the original in order to accommodate it to the modern taste, but in many instances to the different copies of the Edda which they each of them respectively followed; and for this our Author has himself apologized in the Introduction. They also differ in their several divisions of the work but for this also M. Mallet has already accounted[1]. In the following Version Mr. Goranson’s Own Divisions are preserved in the Text; but those of M. Mallet are carefully noted in the Margin. T.
- ↑ See above, pag. 24.
