Bugge

Bugge, ELSSENS SOPHUS, a Norwegian philologist, born 5th January 1833 at Laurvik, studied at Christiania, Copenhagen, and Berlin, and in 1866 was appointed professor of Comparative Philology and Old Norse at the university of Christiania. His Old Norse ballads (1858) and historical legends (1864-65), critical edition of the earlier Edda (1867), studies in ancient Italian dialects (1878) and on the origin of the Scandinavian legends of gods and heroes (1881-82), besides numerous dissertations on all departments of the Teutonic and Romance languages, place him in the first rank of living philologists.