User:Mårtensås

Projects

Proofread works

• Five Pieces of Runic Poetry (Percy 1763)
• Concerning a Proposed Translation of the Edda (Hollander 1919)
• The Hittite Language (Bloomfield 1921)

Unfinished works

• Northern Antiquities (1770)
• Icelandic Poetry (1797)
  • The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal/Volume 27/December 1798/Article 3
  • The Monthly Magazine or British Register/Volume 6/December 1798/Runic Sagas
• Bopp’s Comparative Indo-European Grammar (1885)
• Index:The Old World in the New (1914).djvu
• Songs of the Cowboys (1921)
• Index:The book of Yahweh (The Yahwist Bible) - fragments from the primitive document in seven early books of the Old Testament (IA cu31924029285661).pdf
• Lodbrokar-Quida; or The Death-Song of Lodbroc (Johnstone 1782)

Wanted works/future projects

• Archæologia Britannica (1707)
• Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
• Jacobite Relics
• A critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal
  • And other works mentioned in w:Ossian#Authenticity debate
• The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated
• Early works of comparative philology, e.g. by Rasmus Rask and Sir William Jones
  • A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue IA
  • Sir William Jones’ Third Anniversary Address
• Index:Sayce Intro Science of Language v1.djvu
• The Penetration of Arabia

Other interesting works

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland and Translated from the Galic or Erse Language
• The Primeval Antiquities of Denmark
• The origin and deeds of the Goths in English version (translation of the Getica)
• The Oldest English Epic: Beowulf, Finnsburg, Waldere, Deor, Widsith, and the German Hildebrand translated in the original meters with Introductions and Notes
• History of the Literature of the Scandinavian North
  • TODO: add links in the text to various works on Swedish Wikisource
• What Zarathustra said: The sixty-year controversy regarding Anquetil-Duperron’s Zend-Avesta
• Avesta, the Bible of Zoroaster