The Old Norse poetic translations of Thomas Percy : a new edition and commentary / Margaret Clunies Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clunies Ross, Margaret.

Contributor:

Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811.

Series:

Making the Middle Ages ; v. 4.

Making the Middle Ages ; v. 4

Language:

English

Icelandic

Subjects (All):

Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811. Five pieces of runic poetry.

Percy, Thomas.

Old Norse poetry--Translations into English.

Old Norse poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 290 pages : facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2001]

Summary:

Thomas Percy was the first serious translator of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry into English. He published his Five Pieces of Runic Poetry in London in 1763 (now only available as a rare book) and in 1770 the more celebrated Northern Antiquities. Five Pieces was a seminal work in the history of reception and understanding of ON poetry in Britain and it also has more general significance in our understanding of the development of the discipline of ON-Icelandic studies. The study comprises a facsimile of the 1763 edition, with facing-page notes to allow the modern reader to situate Percy's work in its intellectual context, together with an introduction on Percy himself, his work on ON-Icelandic studies, and the contemporary context of the reception of ON poetry in Britain (and to some extent in the rest of Europe). In addition, this study publishes eight other poetic translations (one from Old English and the others from Old Icelandic) that Percy completed about the same time.

Contents:

Introduction

Annotated facsimile of the 1763 edition of Five pieces of runic poetry

Percy's translations of Old Norse poetry in Bodleian MS Percy c. 7.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-283) and index.

Includes facsimiles from Five pieces of runic poetry originally translated from the Icelandic by Thomas Percy and published in 1763.

ISBN:

2503510779

9782503510774

OCLC:

48417826