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And the Ancient Sumerian, Babylonian & Cappadocian contemporary
& early literary traditional records of those heroic achievements
are generally in strict agreement with the British Edda texts.

In the hope that this work will interest you, not only
by its theme, its national as well as world wide historical importance, & its discovery of the historic
basis of classic heroic mythology, but also as the earliest of
all "English" dramatic epics.

I am,
yours very respectfully

L. Austine Waddell
(LL.D. Glasg. Univ.)