Olaus Wormius

After this it is only heard of furtively, but (1228) Olaus Wormius made a Latin translation later in the Middle Ages, and the Latin text was printed twice - once in the 15th century in blackletter (evidently in German) and once in the 17th (probably Spanish); both editions being without identifying marks, and located as to time and place by internal typographic evidence only.

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Mr. Grenville Pigott, in his _Manual of Scandinavian Mythology_ (as quoted by D'Israeli in the _Amenities of English Literature_, vol.i. p. 51, 52.), that the custom with which the Scandinavians were long reproached, of drinking out of the skulls of their enemies, has no other foundation than a blunder of Olaus Wormius, who, translating a passage in the death-song of Regner Lodbrog, --

Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 Various

One of his favourite works was the Danica Literatura Antiquissima of Olaus Wormius, 1636, which inspired him with the idea of adopting the name Olaus, his subsequent contributions to The New Magazine being signed George Olaus Borrow.

The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912

Literature, by Olaus Wormius, carrying several marginal notes in Borrow's handwriting.

A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Thomas James Wise 1898

Britannica 'and the' Danica Literatura Antiquissima 'of Olaus Wormius, etc. He tells us himself that he passed entire nights in reading an old

George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897

One book here marked was on ancient Danish literature, the author of which, Olaus Wormius, gave him the hint for calling himself Olaus Borrow for a time -- a signature that we find in some of

George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

He then inserts two stanzas, in the Latin of Hickes '"Thesaurus," of an old Runic ode preserved by Olaus Wormius (Ole Worm) and adds an observation upon the Scandinavian heroes and their contempt of death.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Olaus Wormius, "Soon shall we drink from the hollow cups of skulls."

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

-- P. [363] 'Wormius hight:' let not this name, purely fictitious, be conceited to mean the learned Olaus Wormius; much less (as it was unwarrantably foisted into the surreptitious editions) our own antiquary, Mr Thomas Hearne, who had no way aggrieved our poet, but, on the contrary, published many curious tracts which he hath to his great contentment perused.

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716

Olaus Wormius (_De Danicis Monumentis_, see Index), M.

Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 Various