Excerpt from Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ameria, Vol. 5 of 12 The pleasant duty remains of thanking those who have helped me in the preparation of this edition. The officers and attendants of the British Museum ms. Room, of the Cam bridge University Library, and of the Bodleian Library, extended to me all possible courteous assistance. Mr. George Parker, of the last-named library, did me a peculiar favor in early bringing to my attention the Digby ms., unrecorded in the scanty bibliography of Ponthus. Dr. J. W. Bright of Johns Hopkins University has helped me materially in seeing the text through the press; Dr. W. H. Schofield con tributed the entire section On the Scandinavian rimur; and Dr. J. D. Bruce of Bryn Mawr sent me many suggestions, utilized in the introduction and notes, from the proof Sheets. To all these, my most cordial thanks. May it some time fall my chance to Show them, in Ponthus' words, that the? Be noo curtesie doon to a good hert bot that it is yolden agane. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.