| Early 1200s | Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta
Danorum. |
| 1220s | Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda
and Heimskringla. |
| 1555 | Olaus Magnus, Historia de gentibus
septentrionalibus. |
| 1591 | Anders Sørensen Vedel, Et
hundrede udvalgte danske viser | .
| 1593 | Arngrímur Jónsson, Brevis commentarius de Islandia. |
| 1609 | Arngrímur Jónsson, Crymogæa sive Rerum Islandicarum libri
III. |
| 1636 | Ole Worm, [Runer] seu Danica
literatura antiquissima. |
| 1645 | Stephan Johannis Stephanius, Saxonis Grammatici Historiæ Danicæ libri 16
(Soræ) [printed edition of Saxo]. |
| 1650 | Philipp Clüver, Germaniae
Antiquae. |
| 1658 | Olaus Magnus, A Compendious
History of the Goths, Swedes, and Vandals, and Other Northern
Nations [Eng. trans. of Historia]. |
| 1665 | Resenius (Peder Resen), first printed editions of
Prose Edda, Hávamál and
Völuspá. |
| 1670 | Robert Sheringham, De Anglorum
gentis origine. |
| 1675–1702 | Olaus Rudbeck, Atlantica. |
| 1676 | Aylett Sammes, Britannia antiqua
illustrata, or, The Antiquities of Ancient
Britain. |
| 1689 | Thomas Bartholin, Antiquitatum
danicarum de causis contemptae a Danis adhuc gentilibus mortis
libri. |
| 1690 | Sir William Temple, extract from Ragnar
Lodbrog’s Death Song, in Of Heroick
Virtue. |
| 1695 | Peder Syv, new ed. of Et hundrede
danske viser, adding another 100 songs. |
| 1697 | Johan Peringskjöld, Latin and Swedish
trans. of Snorri’s Heimskringla. |
| 1698 | Thormod Torfæus, Historia
Orcadum. |
| 1703 | George Hickes, first English version of
“The Waking of Angantyr”, in
Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus
grammatico-criticus et archæologicus, vol.
1. |
| 1715 | Elizabeth Elstob, The Rudiments of
Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue. |
| 1716 | “The Waking of Angantyr”, included
for the first time in Dryden’s Miscellany
Poems. |
| 1720 | Johan Georg Keysler, Antiquitates
selectae septentrionales et celticae quibus plurima loca
conciliorum et capitularium explanantur. |
| 1737 | Erik Julius Björner, Nordiska kämpa dater, i en sagoflock samlade om forna
kongar och hjältar. |
| 1748 | Stanzas from Ragnar Lodbrog’s Death Song,
in Thomas Warton, the Elder,
Poems. |
| 1750 | Simon Pelloutier, Histoire des
Celtes. |
| 1755 | Paul-Henri Mallet, Introduction
à L’histoire du Danemarch où l’on traite
de la religion, des moeurs, des lois, et des usages des
anciens Danois. |
| 1756 | Paul-Henri Mallet, Monuments de la
mythologie et de la poesie des Celtes, et particulierement des
anciens Scandinaves. |
| 1758 | Discussion of runes etc. in Francis Wise, Some Enquiries Concerning the First Inhabitants,
Language, Religion, Learning and Letters of Europe. |
| 1760 | James Macpherson, Fragments of
Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of
Scotland. |
| 1763 | Thomas Percy, ed. Five Pieces of
Runic Poetry Translated from the Islandic
Language. |
| 1765 | Thomas Percy, “Essay on the Ancient
Minstrels in England” and “On the Ancient Metrical
Romances, &c.”, in Reliques of Ancient
English Poetry. Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and
Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets, together with Some Few of
Later Date, 3 vols.]. (Rev. 1767, 1775, 1794.) |
| 1766 | William Mason, Argentile and
Curan, containing a version of Song of Harold
the Valiant. |
| 1768 | Thomas Gray, “The Fatal Sisters”,
“The Descent of Odin”, in
Poems. |
| 1770 | Michael Bruce, two Danish Odes translated from
Bartholin, in Poems on Several
Occasions. |
| 1770 | Paul-Henri Mallet, Northern
Antiquities: or, a Description of the Manners, Customs,
Religion and Laws of the Ancient Danes, and Other Northern Nations;
Including Those of Our Own Saxon Ancestors. Trans. Thomas
Percy, 2 vols. |
| 1773 |
James Macpherson, Fragment of a Northern Tale,
in the preface to Poems of Ossian. |
| Third edition of James Macpherson’s An
Introduction to the History of Great Britain and
Ireland, containing much information on Anglo-Saxon manners
drawn from readings in Icelandic manuscripts. |
| 1774 | Thomas Warton, “Of the Origin of Romantic
Fiction in Europe”, in The History of
English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement
of the Eighteenth Century, 1st
vol. |
| 1775 |
William Bagshaw Stevens, “Hervor and Angantyr” and
“Song of Rednor Ladbrog”, in Poems. |
| Thomas Penrose, “Carousal of Odin”, in Flights of Fancy. |
| 1778–79 | Johann Gottfried von Herder, Volkslieder, containing various Danish and
Icelandic poems. |
| 1780 |
James Johnstone, Anecdotes of Olave the
Black. |
| Uno von Troil, Letters on Iceland. |
| 1781 |
Hugh Downman, The Death Song of Ragnar Lodbrach, or
Ladbrog. |
| Thomas James Mathias, Runic Odes: Imitated from the
Norse Tongue in the Manner of Mr. Gray (repr. 1790,
1798, 1806). |
| 1782 |
James Johnstone, Lodbrokar-Quida and Haco’s Expedition. |
| Joseph Sterling, Odes from the Icelandic, in Poems. |
| 1783 | William Blake, Gwin, King of
Norway, in Poetical Sketches. |
| 1784 | Edward Jerningham, The Rise and
Progress of Scandinavian Poetry. |
| 1786 |
Antiquitates Celto-Normannicæ, containing the
Chronicle of Man and the Isles. |
| 1787 | Arnamagnæan Commission, Copenhagen, 1st volume of poems from the Poetic Edda. |
| 1787 | John Pinkerton, Dissertation on
the Scythians. |
| 1789 | Richard Hole, Arthur: or, The
Northern Enchantment. A Poetical Romance, in Seven
Books. |
| 1790 | Frank Sayers, Dramatic Sketches of
the Ancient Northern Mythology (repr. 1792, 1803, 1807,
1840). |
| 1792 | Several Norse-inspired compositions, in Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and
Cornwall. |
| 1795 | Robert Southey, “Race of Odin” and
“Death of Odin”, in Poems. |
| 1796 |
Anna Seward, “Herva at the Tomb of Argantyr”, in Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems. |
| Matthew Lewis, The Monk¸ containing a
version of “The Water-King”. |
| 1797 |
A. S. Cottle, Icelandic Poetry, or The Edda of
Sæmund, with a dedicatory poem by Robert
Southey. |
| William Mason, “Song of Harold the Valiant”, in Poems. |
| 1800 |
Joseph Cottle, Alfred, An Epic Poem in Twenty-Four
Books [Book 1, a Danish Gothic]. |
| Matthew Lewis, Tales of Wonder, containing
several Danish and Icelandic poems. |
| 1801 |
William Lisle Bowles, “Hymn to Woden”. |
|
The anonymously authored collection The Tales of
Terror, containing Hrim Thor or The
Winter King. A Lapland Ballad
|
| 1804 | William Herbert, Icelandic
Poetry, 1st part. |
| 1806 |
Thomas Love Peacock, Fiolfar, in Palmyra, and Other Poems.
|
| Walter Savage Landor, Gunlaug, in Gebir … and Other Poems. |
| George Richards Odin. A Drama. |
| 1814 | Weber and Jamieson, Illustrations
of Northern Antiquities, containing Walter Scott’s
summary of Eyrbyggja saga. |
| 1817 |
Walter Scott, Harold the Dauntless. |
| William Drummond, Odin. A Poem. |
| 1826 | Ann Radcliffe, posthumous publication of Salisbury Plains. Stonehenge, appended to the
novel Gaston de Blondeville. |
