Author:Frederick York Powell

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Frederick York Powell
(1850–1904)

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British historian and scholar

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "F. Y. P."

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "F. Y. P."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "F. Y. P."

Works

Early England Up to the Norman Conquest (1876)
Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror (1881)
Old stories from British history (1882)
Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue (1883; vol. 1) ed. and tr. with Gudbrand Vigfusson (transcription project)

Contributions to EB9

"Iceland," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 12) (1881) (History, literature and language)

Contributions to the DNB

Contributions to EB1911

"Iceland," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (History and Ancient Literature)
"Vígfússon, Gúdbrandr," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Contributions to Folk-Lore

"Recent Research on Teutonic Mythology" in Folk-Lore, 1 (1890), pp. 118–122
"Tradition and its Conditions" in Folk-Lore, 15 (1904), pp. 12–23

As editor

The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus by Saxo Grammaticus, tr. Oliver Elton, ed. with James William Buel (1905) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

Works about Powell

"Powell, Frederick York," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
"Powell, Frederick York," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Powell, Frederick York," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"In Memoriam: Frederic York Powell" by Edward Clodd in Folk-Lore, 15 (1904), pp. 182–184
Frederick York Powell: A Life and a Selection from his Letters and Occasional Writings (1906), by Oliver Elton

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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