From: sean de vega
Message: 3178
Date: 2003-06-06
----- Original Message -----
From: "Haukur Thorgeirsson" <haukurth@...>
To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [norse_course] introduction, a couple of stanzas, et c.
>
> Welcome, Sean!
>
>
> > Anyway, I'm currently working thorough "The Waking of Angantýr".
> > Does anyone with more than extraordinary confidence in her/his own
> > pronunciation and inflection wish to help me with an audio recording
> > of the work? It's only 146 lines!
>
> Depends :) Do you mean you want someone else to make a recording?
> Or to review your recording? And what kind of pronunciation?
>
>
>
> > I've already begun my polished translation, which begins,
> >
> > A young may met a man with his herd
> > as the sun was setting on Munarvágr.
> >
> > The herdsman said,
> > "Who is come all alone to this isle?
> > Hie you hence, and home to a hostel!"
>
> We can use Eysteinn's excellent online edition as a reference:
>
> http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/hrvv.html
>
> Let's see.
>
> - - -
> A young may met
> a man with his herd
> as the sun was setting
> on Munarvágr.
>
> Hitt hefr mær ung
> í Munarvági
> við sólar-setr
> segg at hjörðu.
> - - -
>
> This is certainly accurate enough - but it seems that despite
> your suggestive line breaks you are not trying to imitate the
> metre of the original. I didn't know 'mæg' had made it into
> modern English. Cool ;)
>
> - - -
> "Who is come
> all alone to this isle?
> Hie you hence, and
> home to a hostel!"
>
> Hverr er ýta
> í ey kominn?
> gakk greiðliga
> gistingar til.
> - - -
>
> Again you are obviously not trying to write alliterative verse.
> This part is note quite as accurate; you add "all alone" and
> omit "of men".
>
> I think I can more easily help you if I know where you're going
> with this. :) It is certainly a very interesting poem.
>
> Kveðja,
> Haukur
>
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