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Mrs. Angus W. Hall
Best known for bringing Icelandic folklore to English-language readers, this editor and translator is associated with a small but memorable body of late Victorian work. Her surviving publications suggest a taste for myth, legend, and stories shaped for younger audiences.
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Icelandic Fairy Tales
by Mrs. Angus W. Hall
About the author
Mrs. Angus W. Hall is credited as the editor of Icelandic Fairy Tales, first published in 1897. The collection gathers Icelandic folk narratives and presents them in an accessible English form, with an emphasis on vivid storytelling and the strong fairy-tale flavor of Norse legend.
She is also credited as the translator of Mythology, Greek and Roman, an English version of a work by Friedrich August Nösselt published in London in 1885. Taken together, these records suggest that her published work centered on adapting and translating traditional myth and folklore for English readers.
Very little firmly documented biographical information appears to survive under this name, which seems to be a married style rather than a full personal name. Because of that, details such as her dates, background, and portrait are not easy to confirm from reliable online sources.