Note 67 — Chapter III · OSSIAN’S INFLUENCE UPON KLOPSTOCK AND THE SO–CALLED BARDS.
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The earliest impulse of any import toward the introduction of Norse mythology proceeded from Gerstenberg’s Lied eines Skalden (1766), which exerted a wide influence. For an account of Klopstock’s relation to the Lied eines Skalden, cf. Scheel, Vierteljahrschrift, Vol. vi. [67]