Hey!

I actually do have the translations for most of these poems I mentioned, but
you've led me to some other possibilities. I was thinking maybe a series of
shorter works rather a lengthy saga might appeal to some folks-

Jut a thought-

Thanks!

Lavrans


llama_nom wrote:

>
> I think Njáls saga is a great choice, and I wouldn't mind being
> reminded of how brilliant it is and having an excuse to ponder some
> more on just how it goes about achieving those effects. Does anyone
> out there have access to an edition with normalised Old Norse
> spelling? If not, we'd probably be working from the modernised text
> at Netútgáfan [ http://www.snerpa.is/net/isl/njala.htm ]. If people
> think this might be a problem, we could summarise the main
> differences between modern spelling and Norse Course spelling before
> we start.
>
> As it's rather long, we could do a short one first, such as
> finishing off Illuga saga. Or we could always split into teams. Or
> just dive straight in and maybe have a break every 10 chapters or so
> to do a bit of something shorter? I'm also quite partial to Scott's
> suggestion of Völsunga saga, some time... Lavrans, Darraðaljóð is
> part of Njáls saga, so we'd get to that eventually! I think I need
> to investigate weaving terminology a bit to visualise exactly what's
> going on there. I see there are a couple more translations online [
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darra%C3%B0arlj%C3%B3%C3%B0 ], neither
> unfortunately very literal. I've translated Hlöðskviða and
> Hjálmar's Death Song (the Hervarar saga version) and Hervararkviða,
> and have the Turville-Petre edition of Hervarar saga produced by the
> Viking Society, so I might be able to help if you have questions
> about any of those. You can also find a translation and complete
> grammatical explanation of Hervararkviða "The Waking of Angantyr" in
> Old Norse Online, ch. 8 [
> http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-TC-X.html ]. Other
> translations of poems from Hervarar saga online:
>
> Nora Kershaw "The Saga of Hervor & Heithrek" (in Stories & Ballads
> of the Far Past, 1921) [ http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/%
> 7Ekyamazak/myth/norse/kershaw/Kershaw-TOC.htm ].
>
> Thomas Percy "The Incantation of Hervor" (from Five Pieces of Runic
> Poetry Translated from the Icelandic Language, 1763) [ http://www-
> db.library.nottingham.ac.uk/egil/runic_poetry/ ].
>
> EM Smith-Dampier "The Waking of Angantheow" (from The Norse King's
> Bridal, 1912) [ http://www.northvegr.org/lore/kings/001.php ].
>
> WH Auden & AR Taylor [ http://meadhall.homestead.com/Angantyr.html ].
>
> The other version of Hjálmar's Death Song, the one from Arrow-Odd's
> Saga, is translated in the book Seven Viking Romances, a collection
> of Legendary Saga translations by Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards.
> Hollander comments that he has used this longer "and better"
> version; the version in Seven Viking Romances is actually longer
> with lists of names of Hjálmar's friends. Eiríksmál is in Gordon's
> Introduction to Old Norse. There's a translation of Búsla's curse
> in Seven Viking Romances too, and Víkarsbálkr.
>
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