grayt.ead.0001-mss.0038Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0038#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.doooThe Descent of OdinUprose the King of Men with speed,1768Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 32-34Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 220-228
Written at London in 1761, the paraphrase of the original Icelandic is
based largely on a Latin translation from Bartholinus.
First published in Poems (1768).
mss.0038poems.dooo[untitled]17612autograph fair copy
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III,
1069-1070 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 30, 81Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 30Martin, Chronologie (1931), 147
Autograph fair copy, here beginning "Up rose the
King...", in Gray's
Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1069-1070. The Latin text of
Vegtams Kvitha from Bartholinus is on p.
1043.