Author:Frederick York Powell

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Frederick York Powell (1850–1904)

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British historian and scholar

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "F. Y. P."

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This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "F. Y. P."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "F. Y. P."

Frederick York Powell

Works

• Early England Up to the Norman Conquest (1876)
• Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror {1881)
• Old stories from British history (1882)
• Corpus Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue (1883)

Contributions to EB9

• “Iceland” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1881). (History, literature and language)

Contributions to the DNB

• Sihtric (d.871)
• Sihtric (d.927)
• Sihtric (fl.962)
• Sihtric (d.1042)
• Sime, James
• Vígfússon, Gúdbrandr

Contributions to EB1911

• "Iceland," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (History and Ancient Literature)
• "Vígfússon, Gúdbrandr," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Contributions to Folk-Lore

• "Recent Research on Teutonic Mythology" in Folk-Lore, 1 (1890), pp. 118−122
• "Tradition and its Conditions" in Folk-Lore, 15 (1904), pp. 12−23

Works about Powell

• "Powell, Frederick York," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Powell, Frederick York," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "In Memoriam: Frederic York Powell" by Edward Clodd in Folk-Lore, 15 (1904), pp. 182−184
• Frederick York Powell: A Life and a Selection from his Letters and Occasional Writings (1906), by Oliver Elton