Norse Romanticism

A collection of Old Norse imagery in English literature and art in the 18th and 19th century and British travels in Nordic countries.

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*Sir Walter Scott urged the English publication and was likely influenced by this work.

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Robert Southey (1774–1843)

Extract from Cottle's Icelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Saemund.

Southey's Epistle nods to both Charles Fox and Mary Wollstonecraft's observations on Scandinavian landscape. Cottle cites Percy in prologue.

Fox's obituary cites a poem by Southey and talks of his Northern travel. (Poem found in Nathan Drake's literary hours).

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Multiple essays on Scandinavian mythology and poetry including reference to Southey.

His Literary Hours (1798) were exceedingly popular early in the nineteenth century (4th ed. 1820). [SOURCE]

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The Feats on the Fiord by Harriet Martineau

Title: Feats on the Fiord (1865) Author: Harriet Martineau Illustrator: Arthur Rackham

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Liensfiord Lake, Norway

by Francis Danby

Date painted: 1841

Oil on canvas, 82.5 x 116.7 cm

Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum

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View of a Norwegian Lake before the Sun Has Dissipated the Early Morning Mist by Francis Danby

Date painted: 1833

Oil on canvas, 43.1 x 61.3 cm

Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum

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A winter in Iceland and Lapland

By 16th Viscount Arthur Edmund Denis Lee-Dillon

Vol I and Vol II

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1820

Review of Adam Oehlenschläger's Hakon Jarl (pg. 73-89).

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Liensfiord, Norway, Calm - Francis Danby

1835

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Funeral of a Viking - Frank Dicksee

1893

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Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809

Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809

 By Sir William Jackson Hooker

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Columbia University Germanic Studies

The Old Norse Element in Swedish Romanticism

Mentions the entire Northern area of the European continent in some form. Makes connections between Ossianic bards and Norse figures.

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The gods of the North, an epic poem, tr. [from Nordens Guder] into Engl. verse by W.E. Frye

Character *Starkodder, may be the "Starkother" Felicia Hemans refers to in "The Sword of the Tomb: A Northern Legend"

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"In Scandinavia and Germany the Celtic nature of the setting was ignored or not understood, and Ossian was regarded as a Nordic or Germanic figure who became a symbol for nationalist aspirations."

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ROMANTIC BALLADS, TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH; AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES;

The ballads in this volume are translated from the Works of Oehlenslæger, (a poet who is yet living, and who stands high in the estimation of his countrymen,) and from the Kiæmpé Viser, a collection of old songs, celebrating the actions of the ancient heroes of Scandinavia.

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