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The Gold Horns - George Henry Borrow
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Oehlenschlager, Edited by Edmund Gosse, Translated by George Borrow
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Title: The Gold Horns
Author: Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager
Editor: Edmund Gosse
Release Date: June 15, 2009 [eBook #29124]
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOLD HORNS***
Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.
THE GOLD HORNS
translated by
GEORGE BORROW
from the Danish of
ADAM GOTTLOB OEHLENSCHLÄGER
Edited
with an Introduction by
EDMUND GOSSE, C.B.
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.
INTRODUCTION
Early in the present year Mr. Thos. J. Wise discovered among the miscellaneous MSS. of Borrow a fragment which proved to be part of a version of Oehlenschläger’s Gold Horns. His attention being drawn to the fact, hitherto unknown, that Borrow had translated this famous poem, he sought for, and presently found, a complete MS. of the poem, and from this copy the present text has been printed. The paper on which it is written is watermarked 1824, and it is probable
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