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 | | The learned Danes who corresponded with these equally erudite Icelanders, and whose labors were greatly enriched by their communications, were Stephanius, the editor of Saxo, and Olaus Wormius, (6) the father of Northern Archæology. |
 | | It brought to light the Bible of the Old-Scandinavians, and was as important to the Mythology of the North as the discovery of the books of Moses, by Esdras, was to the religious faith of the Hebrews. |
 | | The zeal for antiquarian researches continued unabated, and, when Stephanius and Wormius left the field of action, Resenius entered, and after him Bartholin, who followed in the path their predecessors had opened. |
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