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BUGGE, SOPHUS (1833—1907)

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BUGGE, SOPHUS (1833—1907) , See also:Norwegian philologist, was See also:born at See also:Laurvik, See also:Norway, on the 5th of See also:January 1833. He was educated at See also:Christiania, See also:Copenhagen and See also:Berlin, and in 1866 he became See also:professor of See also:comparative See also:philology and Old Norse at Christiania University. In addition to See also:collecting Norwegian folk-songs and traditions, and See also:writing on Runic See also:inscriptions, he made considerable contributions to the study of the See also:Celtic, See also:Romance, Oscan, Umbrian and See also:Etruscan See also:languages. He was the author of a very large number of books on philology and See also:folklore. His See also:principal See also:work, a See also:critical edition of the See also:elder See also:Edda (Norroen Fornkvoedi), was published at Christiania in 1867. He maintained that the songs of the Edda and the earlier sagas were largely founded on See also:Christian and Latin tradition imported into Scandinavian literature by way of See also:England. His writings also include Gamle Norske Folkeviser (1858), a collection of Old Norse folk, songs; Bidrag til den aeldste skaldedigtnings kistorie (Christiania, 1894); Helge-digtene i den Aeldre Edda (Copenhagen, 1896, Eng. trans., The See also:Home of the Eddic Poems, 1899) ; Norsk Sagafortaelling op Sagaskrivning i See also:Island (Christiania, 1901), and various books on Runic inscriptions. He died on the 8th of See also:July 1907. For a further See also:list of his See also:works see J. B. Halvorsen, Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon, vol. i. (Christiania, 1885).

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