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High quality reprint of Essays on medieval literature by William Paton Ker.
William Paton Ker was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist.
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Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. (William Paton) Ker This book is now reprinted without addition or change, except in a few small details. If it had to be written over again, many things, no doubt, would be expressed in a different way. For example, after some time happily spent in reading the Danish and other ballads, I am inclined to make rather less of the interval between the ballads and the earlier heroic poems, and I have learned (especially from Dr. Axel Olrik) that the Danish ballads do not belong originally to simple rustic people, but to the Danish gentry in the Middle Ages. Also the comparison of Sturla's Icelandic and Norwegian histories, though it still se...
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