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Brother Thomas's Old Norse Translation
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Geitarlauf
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Medieval Scandinavian Literature
Old Norse Arthurian Romance
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Scandinavian Versions
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Thomas's Tristan
Tristan Legend
Tristrams kvædi
Tristrams saga ok Isöndar
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- ISBN 9781843843054
- Weight: 402g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Aug 2012
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: Germanic languages
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Text with facing translation of the Scandinavian versions of the Tristan legend.
This is the first in a set of three volumes making available for the first time critical editions and translations of important medieval Arthurian texts from Iceland, Norway and Sweden. 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 translation of Thomas's Tristan, dated 1226 and commissioned by King Hákon Hákonarson the Old of Norway; "Tristrams kvædi", 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.
Professor MARIANNE KALINKE teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
