GUDBRANDR See also:

• GUDBRANDR VIGFUSSON (1828-188g)

VIGFUSSON (1828-188g)  , the foremost Scandinavian See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good and old Icelandic See also:

• FAMILY

family in Brei6afjord in 1828 . He was brought up, till he went to a See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor's, by his kinswoman, Kristin Vfgfussdottir, to whom, he records, he " owed not only that he became a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of letters, but almost everything." He was sent to the old and famous school at Bessastad and (when it removed thither) at Reykjavik; and in 1849, already a See also:

• FAIR

fair scholar, he came to See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen University as a bursarius in the Regense See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College . He was, after his student course, appointed stipendiarius by the Arna-Magnaean trustees, and worked for fourteen years in the' Arna-Magnaean Library till, as he said, he knew every scrap of old vellum and of Icelandic written See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper in that whole collection . During his Danish See also:

• LIFE

life he twice revisited See also:

• ICELAND (Dan. Island)

Iceland (last in 1858), and made See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• TOURS

tours in See also:

• NORWAY
• NORWAY (Norge)

Norway and See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany with See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends . In 1866, after some months in See also:

• LONDON

London, he settled down in See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, which he' made his See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home for the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his life, only quitting it for visits to the See also:

• GREAT

great Scandinavian See also:

• LIBRARIES

libraries or to London (to See also:

• WORK

work during two or three See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long vacations with his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-labourer, F . Y . See also:

• POWELL, FREDERICK YORK (1850-1904)
• POWELL, GEORGE (c. 1658-1714)
• POWELL, JOHN WESLEY (1834–1902)
• POWELL, VAVASOR (1617-1670)

Powell), or for short trips to places such as the Isle of Man, the Orkneys and Shetlands, the old mootstead of the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• SAXONS

Saxons at Downton, the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman station at See also:

• PEVENSEY

Pevensey, the See also:

• BURIAL

burial-See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

Bishop Brynjulf's See also:

• ILL

ill-fated son at See also:

• YARMOUTH
• YARMOUTH (GREAT YARMOUTH)

Yarmouth, and the like . He held the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of Reader in Scandinavian at the university of Oxford (a See also:

• POST

post created for him) from 1884 till his See also:

• DEATH

death . He was a See also:

• JUBILEE (or JUBILE), YEAR OF

Jubilee See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

Doctor of See also:

• UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala, 1877, and received the Danish See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of the Dannebrog in 1885 . Vfgfilsson died of See also:

• CANCER (" THE CRAB ")
• CANCER, LUIS (d. 1549)
• CANCER, or CARCINOMA (from Lat. cancer, Gr. KapKivwga, an eating ulcer)

cancer on the 31st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1889, and was buried in St See also:

• SEPULCHRE, CANONS REGULAR OF THE HOLY
• SEPULCHRE, EASTER
• SEPULCHRE, THE HOLY

Sepulchre's See also:

• CEMETERY (Gr. Korrsnri7pwv, from Hoiµav, to sleep)

Cemetery, Oxford, on the 3rd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February . He was an excellent See also:

• JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge of literature, See also:

• READING

reading most See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages well and being acquainted with their See also:

• CLASSICS

classics . His memory was remarkable, and if the whole of the Eddie poems had been lost, he could have written them down from memory .

He spoke See also:

• ENGLISH

English well and idiomatically, but with a strong Icelandic See also:

• ACCENT

accent . He wrote a beautiful, distinctive and clear See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, in spite of the thousands of lines of MS. copying he had done in his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early life . By his Tunatdl (written between See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1854 and See also:

• APRIL

April 1855) he laid the See also:

• FOUNDATIONS

foundations for the See also:

• CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology of Icelandic See also:

• HISTORY

history, in a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of conclusions that have not been displaced (See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save by his own additions and .corrections), and that justly earned the praise of See also:

• JACOB
• JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858)

Jacob See also:

• GRIMM, FRIEDRICH MELCHIOR, I
• GRIMM, JACOB LUDWIG CARL (1785-1863)
• GRIMM, WILHELM CARL (1786-1859)

Grimm . His See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of Icelandic classics (1858–68), Biskopa Sogur, Bardar See also:

• SAGA (literally a story committed to writing)

Saga, Fora Sogur (with See also:

• MOBIUS, AUGUST FERDINAND (1790-1868)

Mobius), Eyrbyggia Saga and Flateyar-b6k (with Unger) opened a new era of Icelandic scholar-See also:

• SHIP

ship, and can only fitly be compared to the Rolls Series editions of See also:

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

chronicles by Dr See also:

• STUBBS [STUBBES], PHILIP (c. 1555-c. 161o)
• STUBBS [STUnnE], JOHN
• STUBBS, WILLIAM (1825-1901)

Stubbs for the See also:

• INTEREST

interest and value of their prefaces and texts . Seven years of See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant and severe toil (1866–73) were given to the Oxford Icelandic-English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary, incomparably the best See also:

• GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide to classic Icelandic, and a monumental example of single-handed work . His later series of editions (1874–85) included Orkneyinga and Hdconar Saga, the great and complex See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of Icelandic See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical sagas, known as Sturlunga, and the Corpus Poeticum Boreale, in which he edited the whole See also:

• BODY

body of classic Scandinavian See also:

• POETRY

poetry . As an introduction to the Sturlunga, he wrote a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete though concise history of the classic Northernliterature and Its See also:

• SOURCES

sources . In the introduction to the Corpus, he laid the foundations of a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical history of the Eddie poetry and See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court poetry of the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North in a series of brilliant, See also:

• ORIGINAL

original and well-supported theories that are gradually being accepted even by those who were at first inclined to reject them . His little Icelandic See also:

• PROSE

Prose Reader (with F . See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York Powell) (1879) furnishes the English student with a pleasant and trustworthy path to a See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound knowledge of . Icelandic . The Grimm See also:

• CENTENARY (from Lat. centenarius, of or belonging to a hundred, from centeni, distributive of centum, hundred)

Centenary Papers (1886) give good examples of the range of his historic work, while his Appendix on Icelandic currency to See also:

• SIR

Sir G .

W . See also:

• DASENT, SIR GEORGE WEBBE (1817–1896)

Dasent's Burnt Njal is a See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model of methodical investigation into an intricate and somewhat import, See also:

• ANT
• ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u

ant subject . As a writer in his own See also:

• TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue he at once gained a high position by his excellent and delightful Relations of Travel in Norway and South Germany . In English, as his " Visit to Grimm'" and his powerful letters to The Times show, he had attained no mean skill . His life is mainly a See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of well-directed and efficient labour in See also:

• DENMARK
• DENMARK (Danmark)

Denmark and Oxford . (F . Y .