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Translating the Sagas - Two Hundred Years of Challenge and Response (Hardcover)
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Translating the Sagas - Two Hundred Years of Challenge and Response (Hardcover)
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Few speakers of English have ever been able to read the Icelandic
sagas in the original language, and published saga translations
have played a major role in shaping attitudes towards Viking Age
Scandinavia and the great literary achievements of medieval Iceland
in the English-speaking world. This book is the first publication
to provide an extended examination of the history and development
of Icelandic saga translations into English from their beginnings
in the eighteenth century to today. It explores reasons for
undertaking saga translation, and the challenges confronting
translators. Chapters are devoted to the pioneering saga
translations, the later Victorian and Edwardian eras, the
often-neglected period of the two World Wars and their aftermath,
and the upsurge of saga translation in the second half of the
twentieth century. The contributions of individual translators and
teams are reviewed, from James Johnstone in the 1780s through major
Victorians such as Samuel Laing, George Webbe Dasent, and William
Morris, distinguished twentieth century figures such as Lee M.
Hollander, Gwyn Jones, Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson, and
George Johnston, and the great co-operative project which produced
The Complete Sagas of Icelanders at the century's end. The book
concludes with saga translation facing interesting new
possibilities and challenges, not least those generated by
information technology.
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