Agnete Loth (18 November 1921 – 2 June 1990) was an editor and translator of Old Norse-Icelandic texts.
She is notable for editing late medieval
romance sagas
The ''riddarasögur'' (literally 'sagas of knights', also known in English as 'chivalric sagas', 'romance-sagas', 'knights' sagas', 'sagas of chivalry') are Norse prose sagas of the romance genre. Starting in the thirteenth century with Norse tr ...
, which she published in five volumes intended "to provide a long-needed provisional basis for the study" of these sagas.
In 1975, she married the Icelandic philologist and poet
Jón Helgason.
Selected works
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lists 108 works associated with Agnete Loth. A selection of the most widely held includes:
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References
1921 births
1990 deaths
20th-century philologists
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