WorkPaul Henri Mallet

Northern Antiquities

Northern Antiquities (French original 1755–56), Percy's English translation (1770) Inferred

Paul Henri Mallet (1730–1807) · French original 1755–56

InferredIn this selection, Margaret Fuller engages with a significant work on Scandinavian mythology. While she mentions only "a work on Scandinavian Mythology," scholarly inference points to Paul Henri Mallet's *Northern Antiquities*, originally published in French and translated into English in 1770, as the likely text informing her reading.

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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1844

1846

1850

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Margaret was reading, in these weeks, the Four Books of Confucius, the Desatir, some of Taylor's translations from the Greek, a work on Scandinavian Mythology, Moehler's Symbolism, Fourier's Noveau Monde Industriel, and Landor's Pentameron”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred In this selection, Margaret Fuller engages with a significant work on Scandinavian mythology. While she mentions only "a work on Scandinavian Mythology," scholarly inference points to Paul Henri Mallet's Northern Antiquities, originally published in French and translated into English in 1770, as the likely text informing her reading.