



Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books






Transcriber's Note:

   1. Page scan source:
      http://books.google.com/books?id=A-M8AAAAYAAJ&dq

   2. The diphthong oe is represented by {Oe] and [oe].





                              THE LIBRARY

                                   OF

                            FOREIGN ROMANCE,

                          And Nobel Newspaper:

                               COMPRISING

                   STANDARD ENGLISH WORKS OF FICTION,

                                  AND

                         ORIGINAL TRANSLATIONS

              FROM THE MOST CELEBRATED CONTINENTAL AUTHORS.


                               *   *   *

                               Vol. VII.


                               CONTAINING

                   THE CHILDHOOD OF KING ERIK MENVED.

                         An Historical Romance.

                     TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH OF
                            B. S. INGEMANN.


                           *   *   *   *   *


                                LONDON:
                 BRUCE AND WYLD, 84, FARRINGDON STREET.
                                 1846.






                             THE CHILDHOOD

                                   OF

                           KING ERIK MENVED.


                         An Historical Romance.



                           BY B. S. INGEMANN.



                      TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH,
                             BY J. KESSON.



                                LONDON:
                 BRUCE AND WYLD, 84, FARRINGDON STREET.
                                 1846.






                         TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.


The author has given no preface to this romance; and the translator
would be contented to follow his example, had the author already
enjoyed an English celebrity, or could the name of his translator of
itself suffice to recommend his work to the English public.

But the names of Danish writers are comparatively little known in
England, and the literature and language of Denmark have not here
received that degree of attention which they so justly merit. While the
names of the poets and novelists of France and Germany are familiar to
a numerous section of the reading public, they have yet, in a great
measure,