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See also:DASENT, See also:SIR See also:GEORGE See also:WEBBE (1817–1896) , See also:English writer, was See also:born in St See also:Vincent, See also:West Indies, on the 22nd of May 1817, the son of the See also:attorney-See also:general of that See also:island. He was educated at See also:Westminster school, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, and 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, where he was a contemporary of J. T. See also:Delane (q.v.), whose friend he had become at King's College. On leaving the university in 184o he was appointed to a See also:diplomatic See also:post in See also:Stockholm. Here he met See also:Jacob See also:Grimm, and at his See also:suggestion first interested himself in Scandinavian literature and See also:mythology. In 1842 he published the results of his studies, a version of The See also:Prose or Younger See also:Edda, and in the following See also:year he issued a See also:Grammar of the Icelandic or Old-Norse See also:Tongue, taken from the See also:Swedish. Returning to See also:England in 1845, he became assistant editor of The Times under Delane, whose See also:sister he married; but he still continued his Scandinavian studies, See also:publishing See also:translations of various Norse stories. In 1853 he was appointed See also:professor of English literature and See also:modern See also:history at King's College, See also:London. In 1861–1862 he visited See also:Iceland, and subsequently published Gisli the Outlaw and other translations from the Icelandic. In 187o he was appointed a See also:civil service See also:commissioner and consequently resigned his post on The Times. In 1876 he was knighted. He retired from the public service in 1892, and died at See also:Ascot on the 11th of See also:June 1896. In addition to the See also:works mentioned above, he published The See also:Story of Burnt Njal, from the Icelandic of the Njals See also:Saga (1861).
See the See also:Life of Delane (1908), by See also:Arthur Irwin Dasent.
End of Article: DASENT, SIR GEORGE WEBBE (1817–1896)
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