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An Ode from the Norse Tongue / In The Orcades of Thormodus Torfseus; Hafniae, 1697, folio; and also in Bartholinus / Advertisement / The author once had thoughts (in concert with a friend) of giving the history of English poetry. In the introduction to it he meant to have produced some specimens of the style that reigned in ancient times among the neighbouring nations, or those who had subdued the greater part of this Island, and were our progenitors; "The Fatal Sisters" and "The Descent of Odin" made a part of it. He has long since dropped his design, especially after he heard, that it was already in the hands of a person well qualified to do it justice, both by his taste, and his researches into antiquity.
-- Gray, 1768.