Scots poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), antiquarian Robert Jamieson (1772-1844) and scholar Henry William Weber (1783-1818) published this volume in 1814 with the aim of bringing to the English-speaking world the poems, sagas and ballads of early Germanic and Scandinavian societies.
Translations of Germanic and Scandinavian poems and ballads undertaken by Scots scholars - including Sir Walter Scott - and published in 1814.