https://tidsskrift.dk/passage/issue/feed Passage - Tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik 2024-12-11T19:46:15+01:00 Tobias Skiveren passage@cc.au.dk Open Journal Systems tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik https://tidsskrift.dk/passage/article/view/152165 “Very truly yours” 2024-12-11T19:35:14+01:00 Pernille Hermann norph@cc.au.dk <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>“Very truly yours”: Henry W. Longfellow and the Trans-Atlantic Export of Old Norse Texts and Danish Romantic Literature</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">This article deals with the dissemination in North America in the 19<sup>th</sup> century of Old Norse texts and Danish Romantic literary works. It argues that the American professor of literature and poet Henry W. Longfellow was an important figure in this regard. The starting point of the article is the connection between Longfellow and the Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab that was established in 1835 when Longfellow travelled to Copenhagen.</p> 2024-12-11T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Efter 1 år CCBY