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• W2189045991 abstract "axdaela Saga has, in the words of Magnusson and Palsson, ‘always stirred the European imagination the most profoundly’. 1 The tragic story leaves its protagonists broken and exhausted by the turns of fate which envelop them. The saga mainly concerns the events surrounding the families of Olaf the Peacock and Osvif Helgason, and the central focus of the saga is the love triangle which emerges between Gudrun Osvifs-daughter and the foster brothers Kjartan Olafsson and Bolli Thorleiksson. This love story is one of the most captivating elements of the saga, as moving and relevant in the twenty-first century as it was in the thirteenth. The saga has been translated five times to date and adapted into the poem ‘The Lovers of Gudrun’, 2 which focuses mainly on the central love story, by William Morris. Each of these reworkings of the text adds another facet to the study of the saga, yet also reveals more than just the translator’s academic prowess. Keneva Kunz believes every translation to be an end producta source of evidence for the choices made by a translator, of the manipulations of the text necessary to fit it to a new set of ‘receivers’. 3 The finished work, then, is not only a representation of the ancient story, but also a framework of the decisions made by the translator who has created it: their intent, their beliefs about what makes a good translation and their personal sensibilities. What a translator chooses to emphasise or not emphasise, what to leave in and what to exclude has a very real effect on the text that we are introduced to as readers. William Morris’s ‘The Lovers of Gudrun’, although not a translation itself, is based on Morris’s own unfinished version of Laxdaela Saga, and provides a fascinating study of authorial involvement in the rendering of a saga story and the way in which Morris worked with the material provided. The poem is a bridge between the creative, yet constricted, world of translation and the freedom of poetry, rooted in the saga story and yet at liberty to expand it. A study of ‘The Lovers of Gudrun’ in the context provided by the saga translations can reveal how the choices made by a translator or author can result in very different renderings of a story. The fascination of Laxdaela lies in the intensely recognisable human story nestled within its Viking context and, crucially, the ambiguities within the text which leave so much of the emotional ground to be made up by the reader. Peter Foote emphasises this in his introduction to Muriel Press’s translation, noting how the characters in the saga are known but ‘imperfectly’ 4 by the author, that ‘the exploration of the possibilities inherent in their" @default.
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• W2189045991 title "Rewriting Laxdaela Saga, Translating and Adapting Human Emotion" @default.
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