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Article: Folklore Studies at the Celtic Dawn: The Role of Alfred Nutt as Publisher and Scholar.
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- Folklore
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- January 1, 1999
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At the end of the last century Alfred Trubner Nutt, distinguished folklorist and celticist, was president of the Folklore Society. On the occasion of his untimely death by drowning in 1910, Jessie Weston published an appreciation in the Folklore Society's journal which contained a succinct summation of Nutt's contributions to folklore and to Celtic studies:
The great value of Mr Nutt's work has been his appreciation of the fact
that the progress of Arthurian romance has been along the road of
evolution, that direct literary invention has played but a secondary part
in the growth of this wonderful body of romance ... he pointed out the part
which ...