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Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend

Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend

Hardcover

Series: Arthurian Archives, Book 3

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0859915522
ISBN13: 9780859915526
Publisher: D S Brewer
Published: Sep 16 1999
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Bilingual editions of the Scandinavian versions of the Tristan legend, themselves derived from Old French originals.

This three-volume set of editions and translations celebrates the literary and cultural connections between the Nordic countries and France that helped to bring Tristan and the Arthurian romances northward... thus the entire set of texts can be read as a study in Norse literary patronage, of literary renewal and transformation... A major contribution, not only to the Old Norse field, but to the broader world of medieval literature and culture. Norse Romance will endure for years to come. SPECULUM Norse Romances comprises a three-volume set, making available for the first time critical editions and translations of important medieval Arthurian texts from Iceland, Norway and Sweden, under the general editorship of Marianne Kalinke. This volume is devoted to the Tristan legend. It contains Geitarlauf and Janual, Old Norse translations of the French lais Lanval and Chevrefeuil; Tristrams saga ok Isöndar, Brother Thomas's Old Norse translationof Thomas's Tristan, dated 1226 and commissioned by King Hákon Hákonarson the Old of Norway; Tristrams kv di, a fourteenth-century Icelandic Tristan ballad; and the Saga af Tristram ok Isodd, a fourteenth-century Icelandic version of the Old Norse Tristrams saga ok Isöndar.

The translators are: ROBERT COOK, PETER JORGENSEN, JOYCE HILL, MARIANNE E. KALINKE.

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