Norwich libraries and George Borrow
1983; Maney Publishing; Volume: 6; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1179/lib.1983.6.3.61
ISSN1745-8161
Autores Tópico(s)Scottish History and National Identity
ResumoThe citizens ofNorwith in those days were very kind to George. The city fathers had given him a free scholarship in the Grammar School, and while he was articled to Simpson and Rackham, they afforded him every advantage in their power. Away up under the eavesofGuild Hall there was a really fine collection of old folio and quarto volumes. They were unused and neglected; the locale· was dusty and filled with cobwebs.But it was here in this Corporation Library ofNorwich that Borrow obtained his knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and early English, Welsh or British, Northern or Scandinavian, learning. The books, to the number of three or four thousand, are now all carefully arranged in the main hall of the Free Library, Duke Street. I have examined them there, and in many have discovered the neat young pencilled notes of Lavengro. Among them all I was particularly struck with Edmund Lhuyd's Archaeologia Britannica, 1707-still a most curious and valuable work for Celtic philology-and the Danica Literatura Antiquissima by Olaus Wormius, 1636, of which he was sofond that he adopted the name Glaus during the next three years.1
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