Sophus Bugge (
1833-
1907) was a
Norwegian philologist, known for his work on the
runic alphabet and the
Eddas.Bugge was born at
Laurvik, Norway,
5 January 1833. He was educated at
Christiania,
Copenhagen and
Berlin, and in
1866 he became professor of comparative philology and
Old Norse at
Christiania University. In addition to collecting Norwegian
folksongs and traditions, and writing on
Runic inscriptions, he made considerable contributions to the study of the
Celtic,
Romance,
Oscan,
Umbrian and
Etruscan languages. He was the author of a very large number of books on philology and
folklore. His principal work, a critical edition of the elder
Edda (Norroen Fornkvoedi), was published at Christiania in
1867. He maintained that the songs of the Edda and the earlier sagas were largely founded on Christian and Latin tradition imported into
Scandinavian literature by way of
England. His writings also include Gamle Norske Folkeviser (
1858), a collection of Old Norse folk-songs; Bidrag til den aeldste skaldedigtnings historie (Christiania,
1894); Helge-digtene i den Aeldre Edda (Copenhagen, 1896, Eng. trans., The Home of the Eddic Poems, 1899); Norsk Sagafortaelling op Sagaskrivning i Island (Christiania,
1901), and various books on Runic inscriptions. He died
8 July 1907.
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