We beg to call the attention of such of our antiquaries as are interested
in the history of the Orkneys to a valuable contribution to our knowledge
of them, lately published by our accomplished friend, Professor Munch, of
the Christiana, under the title of _Symbolae ad Historiam Antiquiorem Rerum
Norwegicarum_, which contains, I. A short Chronicle of Norway; II.
Genealogy of the Earls of Orkney; III. Catalogue of the Kings of
Norway--from a MS., for the most part hitherto inedited, and which appears
to have been written in Orkney about the middle of the fifteenth century.
While on the subject of foreign works of interest to English readers, we
may mention two or three others which we have been for some time intending
to bring under the notice of those who know how much light may be thrown
upon our early language and literature by a study of the contemporary
literature of the Low Countries. The first is, _Denkmaeler Niederdeutscher
Sprache und Literatur von Dr. Albert Hoefer, Erstes Banchen_, which
contains the highly curious Low German Whitson play called _Claws Bur_. The
next is a larger, more elaborately edited, and from its introduction and
extensive notes and various illustrations, a yet more interesting work to
English philologists. It is entitled _Leven van Sinte Christina de
Wonderbare_, an old Dutch poem, now first edited from a MS.
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