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Acknowledgments
The inspiration and incentive for this study came from the chapter on
Scandinavian literature in R. S. Loomis’ Arthurian Literature in the
Middle Ages (1959).
To Professor Jonna Louis-Jensen of the Arnamagnæan Institute I am
indebted for her critical reading of my manuscript and many helpful
suggestions. 1 thank my friend and colleague P. M. Mitchell for his un-
stinting support and incisive criticism of my work.
Several scholars made available to me editions and translations of texts
then only in manuscript or page proof: Foster W. Blaisdell (Ivens saga),
Robert Cook and Mattias Tveitane (Strengleikar), Jonna Louis-Jensen
{Breta sogur), Helen Maclean (Parcevals saga).
The greater part of my research and writing was conducted during the
summer of 1977 and most of the calendar year 1978 at the Arnamagnæan
Institute in Copenhagen, where I had access both to the manuscript
collection and to the files of the Arnamagnæan Dictionary. Further, I
consulted manuscripts in the National Library of Iceland, and drew on
the resources of the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Niedersåch-
sische Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek in Gottingen. At various times,
but in particular in November-December 1978,1 was privileged to use the
Fiske Icelandic Collection at Cornell University.
My research was supported by a stipend from the National Endowment
for the Humanities during the summer of 1977 and by a fellowship from
the American Council of Learned Societies during a year’s sabbatical
leave from the University of Rhode Island in 1978. A grant from the
Research Board of the University of Illinois provided for clerical assist-
ance during the academic year 1979/80.
I am grateful to the Arnamagnæan Commission for including this study
in the series Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana.
University of Illinois Marianne E. Kalinke
January 1981
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