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TCG Letter #2151


From
Kenneth Sisam
To
J.R.R. Tolkien
Date
3 May 1938
Type
Unknown
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Kenneth Sisam writes to Tolkien on E.O.G. Turville-Petre's Viga-Glúms Saga. He notes that it will be published in their Oxford English Monographs series of which Tolkien is among the general editors. There will be a delay as they need to secure some special Icelandic characters for the printing.

Sisam also remarks on Tolkien's Beowul lectureBeowulf: The Monsters and the Critics[1] and gives him praise for it.

Later in May, Tolkien replies Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Kenneth Sisam • 28 May 1938 (#107)[2] that he recieved a note from Turville-Petre to say that is again sailing for Iceland but he should discuss various matters on the work before he leaves.
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