La storia di Kullervo (I libri di Tolkien) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

VII

Quotation

The translation I am going to use is that of the ‘Everyman’ series (2 vols) W.H. Kirby: who sometimes seems to plump unnecessarily for the prosy and verbally preposterous, though the great difficulty of course, of the original style is hard to exaggerate. As far as I can see he seems to have tried as nearly as possible the task of making each line correspond to each line of the original which hasn’t improved things: but occasionally he is very good indeed.

If anyone does not know the story (and there is time) I can scarcely do better than read the bald summary in the preface to this edition.

Passages:

The favourites among the Finns are the episodes of ‘Aino’ and ‘Kullervo’

1) Aino R. III 530 (circa) to end: R. IV (140-190) 190-470

2) Kullervo R. 31:. 1-200 34 1-80 35 (170) 190-290 36

(60-180) 280-end

3) The ‘Kine-Song’ (cp. above page)

32 60-160 210-310

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