Erik Brate

In 1887 he married the Swedish painter Fanny Brate, née Ekbom (1861-1940).

He received his doctorate at Uppsala in 1884 with his thesis Nordische Lehnwörter im Orrmulum, which described the use of Scandinavian loanwords in the twelfth-century Middle English work Ormulum.

Brate in that same year was appointed docent of ancient Germanic languages.

He was appointed in 1887 to senior lecturer in Swedish and German language at the Södermalm higher general secondary school in Stockholm, where he remained to 1922.

His works include, with Sophus Bugge, the first several provincial editions of Sveriges Runinskrifter.

Erik Brate
Title page of Sämunds Edda (1913), the first edition of Erik Brate's translation of the Poetic Edda .