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The article provides the reader with an English translation of two 18th-century essays on the origin of the Icelandic language. The essays are set into their historical frame and commented.
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This article provides further evidence on 18th-century linguistic scholarship.
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This page is a summary of: Two Short Essays by Árni Magnússon on the Origins of the Icelandic Language, Historiographia Linguistica, June 2018, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/hl.00016.tar.
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