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THE ENGLISHMAN AND THE SCANDINAVIAN; 
| | Or, A Comparison of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Literature. 
By FREDERICK METCALFE, M.A., 
Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford ; Translator of ‘‘ Gallus ”’ and “ Charicles,”’ and 
Author of ‘* The Ue ee in Iceland.” 
The Author has tried to interview the two races, the Anglo-Saxon and his Scandinavian brother. 
Te has asked the nineteenth century man to turn aside and survey his incunabula ; to stand by the 
dle, so to say, of two great branches of the Gothic family when they were just crossing the threshold 
istory ; to follow the young hopeful onwards in his career through his several ages, to listen to his 
utored words and language, to take note of his thoughts and feelings, his ways of looking at things 
the days when his writing was runes scratched on wood or stone, to the time when he copied 
beautifully and cunningly on vellum. He has shown how the Anglo-Saxon nature was somewhat 
lull and devoid of ‘‘ go,” while the Scandinavian was just the reverse, far removed from the lotus- 
‘eater, and not in the least disposed to get behind the north wind for shelter. He has exhibited them 
in the infancy of their faith, not so much perhaps stretching out their falms to heaven, if haply 
bey might find the true God, as dividing their worship and belief indiscriminately between the god 
hor and their own might and main. Passing from their Pagan days to those of their new Chris- 
an creed, he has shown how it sat on each people, loosely or otherwise ; picturing too the quaint 
‘ op gap, often dashed with drollery, that intervened between Paganism and Christianity, and the 
vay the missionaries looked on the affair—the more pious clergy aghast at the fatuous jumble, while 
thers winked at it, or perhaps indulged in the same themselves.—EXTRACT FROM PREFACE, 
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