THE

LITERATURE AND ROMANCE

OF

NORTHERN EUROPE:

CONSTITUTING

A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE LITERATURE OF SWEDEN,

DENMARK, NORWAY AND ICELAND,

WITH COPIOUS SPECIMENS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED
HISTORIES, ROMANCES, POPULAR LEGENDS AND TALES, OLD CHIVALROUS
BALLADS, TRAGIC AND COMIC DRAMAS, NATIONAL AND FAVOURITE SONGS
NOVELS, AND SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE PRESENT DAY.

BY

WILLIAM AND MARY HOWITT,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

COLBURN AND CO., PUBLISHERS,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1852.