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A new Danish translation with the text in Old Norse and a Latin translation came out in 1777–83 (by order of Frederick VI as crown prince). An English translation by Samuel Laing was finally published in 1844, with a second edition in 1889. Starting in the 1960s English-language revisions of Laing appeared, as well as fresh English ...
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Jackson W. Crawford (born August 28, 1985) is an American scholar, translator and poet who specializes in Old Norse.He previously taught at University of Colorado, Boulder (2017-2020), University of California, Berkeley (2014-17) and University of California, Los Angeles (2011–14). [1]
Old Norse: galdr and Old English: ġealdor or galdor are derived from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic *galdraz, meaning a song or incantation. [2] [3] The terms are also related by the removal of an Indo-European-tro suffix to the verbs Old Norse: gala and Old English: galan, both derived from Proto-Germanic *galaną, meaning to sing or cast a spell.
Old English and Old Norse were related languages. It is therefore not surprising that many words in Old Norse look familiar to English speakers; e.g., armr (arm), fótr (foot), land (land), fullr (full), hanga (to hang), standa (to stand). This is because both English and Old Norse stem from a Proto-Germanic mother language.
The Old Lay of Biarki Translation and commentary by Lee M. Hollander, includes translation of Axel Olrik's reconstruction; Bjarkamál The remnants of the original text, two editions; Gesta Danorum, Liber 2, Caput 7 Saxo's Latin version (starting with "Ocius evigilet") Translation of Saxo's version
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Written in Old Norse, it is, along with the Historia Norvegiæ, one of the Norwegian synoptic histories. [ 1 ] The preserved text starts with the death of Hálfdan svarti (c. 860) and ends with the accession of Ingi krókhryggr (1136) but the original is thought to have covered a longer period, probably up to the reign of Sverrir (1184–1202).