WORSAAE, Jens Jacob Asmussen.

Minder om de Danske og Nordmaendene i England, Skotland og Ireland.

Copenhagen, 1851. 8vo, pp. [4], 444, with 4 plates and some woodcut illustrations in the text; a few pages with scattered foxing; bound in the original blindstamped green cloth, title gilt on front cover. First edition of Worsaae's travels in the British Isles, under a royal commission from Christian VIII, to investigate monuments and antiquities of the Viking age. The artefacts which he discovered in Ireland in the winter of 1846/7 are now in the National Museum of Denmark. Christian VIII also commissioned a series of watercolours of similar artefacts in the Royal Irish Academy, which are now being examined to 're-provenance' objects in Ireland's national collections.'Worsaae soon launched into a series of travels in England and Ireland which led to the publication of a book on Nordic civilisations in England, Scotland and Ireland and which was the first synthesis devoted to the comparative analysis of Nordic peoples in European prehistory' (A. Schnapp, Discovery of the Past, British Museum, 1993, p. 302).A German edition was published in the same year, while an English translation, An account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland and Ireland, appeared the following year (Murray 1852).

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