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THORPE, BENJAMIN (1782-1870)

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THORPE, See also:BENJAMIN (1782-1870) , See also:English Anglo-Saxon See also:scholar, was See also:born in 1782. After studying for four years at See also:Copenhagen University, under the Danish philologist Rasmus See also:Christian See also:Rask, he returned to See also:England in 183o, and in 1832 published an English version of Caedmon's metrical See also:paraphrase of portions of the See also:Holy Scriptures, which at once established his reputation as an Anglo-Saxon scholar. In 1834 he published Analecta Anglo-Saxonica, which was for many years the See also:standard textbook of Anglo-Saxon in English, but his best-known See also:work is a See also:Northern See also:Mythology in three volumes (1851). His was the first See also:complete See also:good See also:translation of the See also:elder See also:Edda (1866). His other See also:works include See also:Ancient See also:Laws and Institutes of England (1840), an English translation of the laws enacted under the Anglo-Saxon See also:kings; The Holy Gospels in Anglo-Saxon (1842); Codex Exoniensis (1842), a collection of Anglo-Saxon See also:poetry with English translation; an English translation of Dr Lappenburg's See also:History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings (1845) Anglo-Saxon Poems of See also:Beowulf (1855), a translation; an edition for the " Rolls " See also:series of the Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle (1861); and Diplomatarium Anglicum aevi saxonici (1865), a collection of See also:early English charters. Thorpe died at See also:Chiswick on the 19th of See also:July 1870. The value of his work was recognized by the See also:grant to him, in 1835, of a See also:civil See also:list See also:pension.

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