and the method would be the same. How far the Old Norse literature has
helped to form these later eras it is not easy to say, but the
contributions may be counted up, and their literary value noted. These
are the commission of the present essay. When the record is finished, we
shall be in possession of information that may account for certain
considerable writers of our day, and certain tendencies of thought.




CONTENTS.


Prefatory Note

Introductory

I. The Body of Old Norse Literature

II. Through the Medium of Latin
Thomas Gray
The Sources of Gray's Knowledge
Sir William Temple
George Hickes
Thomas Percy
Thomas Warton
Drake and Mathias
Cottle and Herbert
Walter Scott