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ADVERTISEMENT.

E have now seen the end of M.

MALLET'S Introduction a l' Hiftoire de Dannemark, and here the present Work might properly enough have been concluded: but as this Second Volume falls short in fize of the preceding, the English Tranflator thought he should make a very acceptable present to the learned Reader, if he fubjoined by way of SUPPLEMENT, the Latin Version of the EDDA by Mr. GORANSON, whom our Author has mentioned in the INTRODUCTION to this Volume. By comparing this Version with the preceding one from the French, the genuine literal sense of the original will the more compleatly be attained: And in illustrating so ancient and so peculiar a Compofition, no kind of assistance will be found fuperfluous. It may be a farther recommendation of the following pages, that Mr. GORANSON's Latin Version, (which, however barbarous and unclassical, is yet esteemed literally exact) is in itself a great curiosity, as his own book will probably VOL. II. fall

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fall into the hands of very few Readers in this kingdom. This Latin Version was published a few years ago at the foot of a correct edition of the EDDA in 4to, accompanied with another translation into the Swedish language, and prefaced with a long Swedish differtation, " De EDDÆ antiquitaté, et indole, be. ut et de antiquiffimis et genuinis Skythis, Getis, Gothis, Atlantis, Hyperboreis, Cimbris, Gallis, eorumque Satore Gomero."

If the preceding Version from M. MALLET should be found in some places to differ pretty much from this of Mr. GORANSon, we probably must not attribute it wholly to the freedom, with which the former has sometimes paraphrased the ori ginal in order to accommodate it to the modern taste, but in many instances to the different copies of the EDDA which they each of them respectively followed; and for this our Author has himself apologized in the INTRODUCTION. They also differ in their several divisions of the work: but for this also M. MALLET has already account ed*. In the following Version Mr. GoRANSON's own Divisions are preferved in the Text; but those of M. MALLET are T

carefully noted in the Margin.

* See above, pag. 24..

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HYPERBOREORUM ATLANTIORUM

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SUIOGOTORUM ET NORDMANORUM

EDDA,

Hoc eft, ATAVIA, feu Fons Gentilis illorum et Theologiæ et Philofophiæ, VERSIONE LATINΝΑ Donata, &c. Ad Manuscriptum, quod poffidet Bibliotheca Upsalensis, antiquiffimum, correctifi mum, et quidem membranaceum, Goticum, in lucem prodit

Opera et Studio

JOHANNIS GORANSON,

Philof. Magistri.

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OK thessi heiter EDDA, henna bever
Samfetta SNORRI STURLO SON, &c.

IBER hic vocatur EDDA, eam compofuit SNORRO STURLÆ FILIUS, co modo, quo hic ordinatum est. Primum vero de Afis et Ymio. Mox de Poesi, et multarum rerum epithetis. Postremo Series Genealogica, quam Snorro confecit de Haquino Rege, et Duce Skula.

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