Dasent, Sir George Webbe, Icelandic scholar, born at St. Vincent, West Indies; studied at Oxford; from 1845 to 1870 was assistant-editor of the Times; has translated “The Prose, or Younger, Edda” and Norse tales and sagas; written also novels, and contributed to reviews and magazines; (b. 1817).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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