Laurence Marcellus Larson

From Foreword, CANUTE The Great 1912 by Laurence Marcellus Larson

Serious study of the viking age in its broader aspects bean about fifty years ago with the researches of Gudbrand Vigfusson, a young Icelandic scholar, much of whose work was carried on in England. Vigfusson's work was parallelled by the far more thorough researches of the eminent Norwegian philologist, Sophus Bugge. These investigators both came to the same general conclusion : that Old Norse culture, especially on the literary side, shows permeating traces of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon elements; that the Eddic literature was not an entirely native product, but was largely built up in the viking colonies in Britain from borrowed materials.

Some years earlier, the Danish antiquarian, J. J. A. Worsaae, had begun to study the "memorials" of Norse and Danish occupation in Britain, and had found that the islands in places were overlaid with traces of Scandinavian conquest in the form of place names. Later Worsaae's countryman, Dr. J. C. H. R. Steenstrup, carried the research into the institutional field, and showed in his masterly work, Normannerne (1876-1882), that the institutional development among the Anglo-Saxons in the tenth and eleventh centuries was largely a matter of adapting and assimilating Scandinavian elements.

Studies that embodied such differing viewpoints could not fail to call forth much discussion, (etc). Recently there has been a reaction from the extreme position assumed by Professor Bugge and his followers ; but quite generally Norse scholars are coming to take the position that both Sophus Bugge and Johannes Steenstrup have been correct in their main contention ; the most prominent representative of this view is Professor Alexander Bugge. Where two vigorous people representing differing types or different stages of civilisation come into more than temporary contact, the reciprocal influences will of necessity be continued and profound.

The viking movement had, therefore, its aspects of growth and development as well as of destruction. The best representative of the age and the movement, when considered from both these viewpoints, is Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, and Norway. Canute began as a pirate and developed into a statesman. He was carried to victory by the very forces that had so long subsisted on devastation ; when the victory was achieved, they discovered, perhaps to their amazement, that their favourite occupation was gone.   (Etc.)

CANUTE THE GREAT   995 (circ)-1034 by L.M. Larson
New York and London : Putnam 1912, pages vi-vii.

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Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938. Title The log book of a young immigrant, Publisher Northfield, Minn., Norwegian-American historical association, 1939. Description vii p., 1 l., 318 p. front., port. 24 cm.

Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938. Title The Changing West and other essays, Publisher Northfield, Minn., Norwegian-American historical association, 1937. Description ix p., 1 l., 180 p. ports., facsim. 23 cm. Series (Half-title: Publications of the Norwegian-American historical association.) Language English Contents The changing West.--The Norwegian element in the field of American scholarship.--The convention riot at Benson Grove, Iowa, in 1876.--Tellef Grundysen and the beginnings of Norwegian-American fiction.--The Norwegian element in the Northwest.--Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen.--"Skandinaven, Professor Anderson, and the Yankee school."--The lay preacher in pioneer times.

Uniform Title [ Gula�ingsl$B�H(B hin eldri.] Title The earliest Norwegian laws, being the Gulathing law and the Frostathing law: translated from the Old Norwegian by Laurence M. Larson. Publisher New York, Columbia University Press, 1935. Description ix, 451 p. 23 cm. Series Records of civilization, sources and studies,no. 20 Language English Note The translation that is presented in this volume is based on Norges gamle love indtil 1337, vol.I. edited by Peter Andreas Munch and Rudolph Keyser and published in 1846. Cf. Introd.

Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938. Title A history of England, and the British commonwealth. Publisher New York : H. Holt, [c1932] Description x, 916 p. illus., maps (part col.) 23 cm. Series American historical series Language English

Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938. Title History of England and the British commonwealth, by Laurence M. Larson ... Publisher New York, H. Holt and company [c1924] Description ix, 911 p. double front., maps (part double) 23 cm. Series American historical series

Uniform Title [ Konungs skuggsj$B!&(B] Title The king's mirror (Speculum regale--Konungs skuggsj$B!&(B tr. from the old Norwegian by Laurence Marcellus Larson ... Publisher New York, The American-Scandinavian foundation; [etc., etc.] 1917. Description xvi, 338 p. 24cm. O. Series Scandinavian monographs.vol. III Language English Note "The translation is based on the Christiania edition."--Introd., p. 71. Note Bibliography: p. [367]-372.

Uniform Title [ Konungs skuggsj$B!&(B English.] Title The King's mirror (Speculum regalae - Konungs skuggsj$B!&(B Translated from the Old Norse with introduction and notes by Laurence Marcellus Larson. Publisher New York, American-Scandinavian Foundation; London, Humphrey Milford, 1917. Description xvi, 388 p. 22 cm. Series Scandinavian monographs,v. 35

Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938. Title A short history of England and the British Empire, by Laurence M. Larson ... with maps and illustrations. Publisher New York : H. Holt and Company, [c1915] Description xvii, [1], 661 p. incl. front., illus. maps (part double) 20 cm. Series American historical series

Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus. Title Canute the Great 995 (circ.)-1035 and the rise of Danish imperialism during the viking age, Publisher New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1912. Description 3 p.l., v-xvii p., 1 l., 375 p. front., illus., plates, maps. 20 cm.

Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938. Title The effort of the Danish kings to recover the English crown after the death of Harthacnut, by Laurence M. Larson ... Source American Historical Association. Annual report ... for the year 1910. Washington, 1912. 25 cm. p. 69-81

Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938. Title A syllabus of European history for secondary schools, prepared under the direction of a committee of the Illinois high school conference by Laurence M. Larson. Publisher Champaign-Urbana [Gazette press, Champaign] 1909. Description 74 p. 23 cm.

Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938. Title A financial and administrative history of Milwaukee, by Laurence Marcellus Larson ... Publisher Madison, Wis., 1908. Description 182 p. incl. maps. 24 cm. Series Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin ;no. 242.Economics and political science series ;v. 4, no. Note Bibliography: p. 158-161.

Author Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938. Title The king's household in England before the Norman Conquest. Publisher Madison, Wis., [University of Wisconsin Press] 1904. Description [61]-211 p. 25 cm. Series Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin ;no. 100.History series ;v. 1, no. 2 Note Author's Ph.D. Thesis--University of Wisconsin, 1902. Note Includes bibliographical references.