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Tolkien's Proposed Translation of Old Norse Egilssaga
The picture that opens this article shows one of the many concept maps that I have the habit of creating when I study a topic. It's a way for me to keep track of the links I find during my searches.
As you can read, the map tells of my research not on the influence of Icelandic literature on Tolkien's work but on the relationship between Tolkien and Icelandic scholars.
I started researching this topic in 2019. Since then, I have been collecting findings and newspaper or magazine articles, and buying books, many of which signed and annotated by Tolkien's students such as Ursula Dronke (née Brown), who studied them when he was student of Tolkien, Cecilia Sisam, Gabriel and Joan Turville-Petre, Norman Davis, and Agnete Loth; and also by friends like Sigurður Nordal, Jacob Benedeiktsson, Jon Helgason, Benjamin Kristjansson, R. Priebsch, and Max Forster...
Tolkien's Proposed Translation of Old Norse Egilssaga
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