{{Short description|Old Norse-Icelandic translator and editor}} '''Agnete Loth''' (18 November 1921 – 2 June 1990) was an editor and translator of Old Norse-Icelandic texts.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=http://denstoredanske.dk/index.php?sideId=291049|title=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|last=Schjørring|first=Jens Holger|publisher=Gyldendal|date=1979–1984 |volume=3 |chapter=Jón Helgason|access-date=6 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://handrit.is/en/biography/view/AgnLot001|title=Loth, Agnete {{!}} Biography|website=handrit.is|access-date=2019-04-06}}</ref> She is notable for editing late medieval romance sagas, which she published in five volumes intended "to provide a long-needed provisional basis for the study" of these sagas.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Malone |first=Kemp|date=October 1966 |title=Late Medieval Icelandic Romances. Agnete Loth |type=Review |journal=Speculum|volume=41|issue=4|pages=754–755|doi=10.2307/2852338 |jstor=2852338 |doi-access=free|issn=0038-7134}}</ref>

In 1975, she married the Icelandic philologist and poet Jón Helgason.<ref name=":0" />

== Selected works == WorldCat lists 108 works associated with Agnete Loth. A selection of the most widely held includes:

* {{Cite book|title=Reykjahólabók. Islandske helgenlegender|date=1969–70|publisher=Munksgaard|editor=Loth, Agnete|isbn=8716043650|location=Copenhagen|oclc=2085565}} * {{Cite book|title=Late Medieval Icelandic Romances|last=Loth|first=Agnete|publisher=Den Arnamagnæanske Komission|year=1962–1965|isbn=|location=Copenhagen|pages=}} * {{Cite book|title=Karlamagnús saga : branches I, III, VII et IX|date=1980|publisher=Société pour l'étude de langue et de la littérature danoises|author=Agnete Loth|author2=Povl Skårup|editor=Knud Togeby|editor2=Pierre Halleux|isbn=8774212613|location=Copenhagen|oclc=8311305}} * {{Cite book|title=Fornaldarsagas and late medieval romances : AM 586 4to and AM 589 a-f 4to|date=1977|publisher=Rosenkilde and Bagger|editor=Loth, Agnete|isbn=8742302676|location=Copenhagen|oclc=6710039}} * {{Cite book|title=Thomasskinna : Gl. kgl. saml. 1008 fol. in the Royal Library, Copenhagen [Faksimileudgave]|last=Loth|first=Agnete|date=1964|publisher=Rosenkilde and Bagger |location=Copenhagen |oclc=473195314}} * {{Cite book|title=Membrana regia deperdita. [Containing Gísla saga Súrssonar, Fostbrædra saga, Þorsteins saga Síðuhallsonar and Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar.]|last=Loth, Agnete|date=1960|oclc=560608145}} * {{Cite book|title=Jón Helgason : bibliografi 1919-1969|last=Loth, Agnete|date=1969|publisher=Rosenkilde og Bagger|oclc=877738940}}

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