Preface

The present treatise originally appeared in Danishas a University publication (Kjœbenhavns UniversitetsFestskrift, November 1919). In submittingit to the English public, I wish to acknowledge myprofound indebtedness to Mr. G. F. Hill of the BritishMuseum, who not only suggested the English edition, butalso with untiring kindness has subjected the translation,as originally made by Miss Ingeborg Andersen, M.A. ofCopenhagen, to a painstaking and most valuable revision.

For an account of the previous treatments of the subject,as well as of the method employed in my investigation,the reader is referred to the introductory remarks whichprecede the Notes.

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