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3446542 No.3446542 [Reply] [Original]

What's the best translation of The Kalevala and The Prose Edda?

>> No.3446559

I have a Kalevaka translation by W.F. Kirby and I really liked it, he even managed to imitate the meter succesfully. Don't know about the Prose Edda though, since I haven't read it in English.

>> No.3446560

>>3446559
*Kalevala, of course.

>> No.3446634

I think you'll find Snorri Sturluson's take on the Prose Edda to be fantastic.

>> No.3446755

>>3446634
Sturluson wrote the Prose Edda

>> No.3446851
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>> No.3446868

>>3446755
>the point
>your head
Choose one.

>> No.3446964

>>3446868
So, the point you were trying to make is that OP should read it in old icelandic or?

>> No.3446977

>>3446851
What is this?
It looks very artificial

>> No.3446991

>>3446977
Earthsea

>> No.3447362

>>3446991
What does Earthsea have to do with national epics?

>> No.3447379

>>3446977
That was the worst movie I've ever seen.

>> No.3447392

>>3447379
>[Ursula K. Le Guin's] initial response to Goro Miyazaki was "It is not my book. It is your movie. It is a good movie".
>It is a good movie

>> No.3447397

>>3447392
She was probably just being polite.

>> No.3448391

i want to know this too

>> No.3449329

>>3448391