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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Old Norse in Italy: From Francesco Saverio Quadrio to Fóstbræðra saga
Contributor:
Ferrari, Fulvio
imprint:
University of Alberta Libraries, 2019
Published in:Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
Language:
Not determined
DOI:
10.29173/scancan164
ISSN:
2816-5187;
0823-1796
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>ABSTRACT:
Old Norse texts and literary motifs have been circulating in Italian literature since
an early period of its history. Already in the second half of the eighteenth century,
we find evidence of the interest of some Italian intellectual circles in the cultural
tradition of ancient Scandinavia. The aim of this article is to show how and why Italian
culture “imported” Old Norse texts during the last two centuries, especially how the mandates of different
projects determined which texts to translate, how to translate them, and how to present
them to an Italian readership. In keeping with the theme of this special volume, particular
attention is paid to the case of Fóstbræðra saga and the context of its appearance in Italian translation, including associated references
to the twentieth-century rewriting of this saga by the Icelandic writer Halldór Kiljan
Laxness.
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