Ebook: Translating Early Medieval Poetry Transformation, Reception, Interpretation

Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: From Eald to New -- 1 From Eald Old to New Old: Translating Old English Poetry in(to) the Twenty-first Century -- 2 Edwin Morgan's Translations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Turning Eald into New in English and Scots -- 3 Gains and Losses in Translating Old English Poetry into Modern English and Russian -- 4 Borges, Old English Poetry and Translation Studies -- 5 'Let Beowulf now be a book from Ireland': What Would Henryson or Tolkien Say? -- 6 The Forms and Functions of Medieval Irish Poetry and the Limitations of Modern Aesthetics -- 7 Aislinge Meic Conglinne: Challenges for Translator and Audience -- 8 Translating Find and the Phantoms into Modern Irish -- 9 Reawakening Angantýr: English Translations of an Old Norse Poem from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-first -- 10 Translating and Retranslating the Poetic Edda -- 11 From Heroic Lay to Victorian Novel: Old Norse Poetry about Brynhildr and Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native -- 12 Michael Hirst's Vikings and Old Norse Poetry -- Afterword -- A Translation of Riddle 15 from the Exeter Book -- Bibliography -- Index

The essays here, united by their appreciation of the centrality of translation to the interpretation of the medieval past, add to our understanding of how the old is continually made anew  Read more...