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and vast industry served him well; the Dane,
Steenstrup, whose scientific method and trained skill
and patience have helped him to unravel many an
enigma that puzzled his predecessors; Freeman, the
Englishman, who has taught a generation of his
countrymen the way to learn what may be learnt
from the past; and the Icelander, Gudbrand Vigfusson,
who, possessing an unrivalled knowledge of Icelandic
MSS., and giving unflinching devotion to his work,
has been able in every branch of old Northern
learning, from chronology to metric, to do more to
advance our knowledge of this great Scandinavian
exodus than any man of his time.
Among other historical workers who have attacked
various sides of the subject, and who should justly
be referred to here, are–Dr. Jessen, Dr. Storm, Mr.
[Sir H.] Howorth, the historian of the Mongols, and
J. R. Green, who gave the last few hours of his short life
to an eager and undaunted study of the subject which
he never lived to complete, but which remains as a
piece of suggestive, if necessarily imperfect work.
Such being the materials upon which this little
book is based, it remains to fix its scope and aims.
Beginning with a sketch of the conditions amid
which the migrations took place, and an endeavour
to grasp their character and origin, it will then
seek if
possible to follow the several phases and
phenomena of the various migrations and settlements
that affected the British Islands, and finally try to
weigh the results and effects of those settlements.
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