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  • Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany.

    Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011

  • Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany.

    Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011

  • So far we've read (among other primary sources) Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, Snorri's Edda, Plato's Republic (thank Odin I had already read that one), and a selection of writings by Jacob Grimm and Johann Herder.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Angry Professor 2008

  • So far we've read (among other primary sources) Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, Snorri's Edda, Plato's Republic (thank Odin I had already read that one), and a selection of writings by Jacob Grimm and Johann Herder.

    In which I realize I am an idiot. Angry Professor 2008

  • See the instances quoted by Jacob Grimm in his “Rechtsaltertumer”,

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • So we can say that Germanic *θ often corresponds to Latin t as Jacob Grimm remarked upon in 1822 showing that Germanic and Latin are part of the Indo-European family of languages.

    How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage 2007

  • If there was a man who was responsible for the feeling of continuity with which the practitioners of the discipline have looked back over the nineteenth century (but not beyond it!) it was Jacob Grimm

    LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968

  • [138: 2] Jacob Grimm, _Teutonic Mythology_, pp. 1173-1174.

    Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

  • [116: 2] Jacob Grimm, _Teutonic Mythology_, p. 1177.

    Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

  • About this time there fell into her hands a review, by Jacob Grimm, of the collection of Servian popular songs, published by Mark Stephanowich.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

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