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Sir George Webbe Dasent was born in St Vincent, West Indies, on the 22nd of May 1817, the son of the attorney-general of that island.
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Sir George Webbe Dasent was born in St Vincent, West Indies, on the 22nd of May 1817, the son of the attorney-general of that island.
He was educated at Westminster school, King's College, and Oxford, where he was a contemporary of J. T. Delane, whose friend he had become at King's College.
On leaving the university in 1840 he was appointed to a diplomatic post in Stockholm. Here he met Jacob Grimm, and at his suggestion first interested himself in Scandinavian literature and mythology. In 1842 he published the results of his studies, a version of The Prose or Younger Edda, and in the following year he issued a Grammar of the Icelandic or Old-Norse Tongue, taken from the Swedish.
Returning to England in 1845, he became assistant editor of The Times under Delane but he still continued his Scandinavian studies, publishing translations of various Norse stories.
In 1853 he was appointed professor of English literature and modern history at King's College, London.
Perhaps his most well-known work, The Story of Burnt Njal, a translation of the Icelandic Njal's Saga that he had first attempted while in Stockholm, was issued in 1861. This was followed in 1861-1862 with a visit to Iceland. Subsequent to that visit, he published in 1866 his translation of Gisli the Outlaw from the Icelandic.
In 1870 he was appointed a civil service commissioner and consequently resigned his post on The Times. He retired from the public service in 1892.
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He was married to Delayne's sister. They had two sons, and a daughter.