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Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Isaac Asimov, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Rachel Bromwich, Charlotte Brontë, Steven Brust, Jesse L. Byock, Orson Scott Card, Lewis Carroll, James E. Cathey, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Tom Clancy, Tim Pat Coogan, Barry Cunliffe, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Richard Dawkins, Charles Dickens, Fiódor Dostoiévski, Umberto Eco, Patrick K. Ford, Patrick J. Geary, William Gibson, Stephen Jay Gould, Jacob Grimm, Vilhelm Peter Grønbech, Robert A. Heinlein, Goch Iolo, Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, Simon Keynes, Thomas Kinsella, Thomas S. Kuhn, H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsay MacMullen, J. P. Mallory, Kuno Meyer, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Richard Morgan, Lotte Motz, John Julius Norwich, Alexandre Dumas père, Colin Renfrew, Kim Stanley Robinson, James C. Russell, Edward Rutherfurd, William Shakespeare, Patrick Sims-Williams, Neal Stephenson, Brian Stowell, Snorri Sturluson, Taliesin, St. Thomas Aquinas, Rudolf Thurneysen, J. R. R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Herwig Wolfram (Shared favorites)
About meI have enjoyed this bit of old Irish advice for many years. It expresses one ideal set of traits that I like.
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"O Cormac, grandson of Conn", said Carbery, "What were your habits when you were a lad?"
"Not hard to tell", said Cormac.
I was a listener in woods
I was a gazer at stars
I was blind where secrets were concerned
I was silent in a wilderness
I was talkative among many
I was mild in the mead-hall
I was stern in battle
I was gentle towards allies
I was a physician of the sick
I was weak towards the feeble
I was strong towards the powerful
I was not close lest I should be burdensome
I was not arrogant though I was wise
I was not given to promising though I was strong
I was not venturesome though I was swift
I did not deride the old though I was young
I was not boastful though I was a good fighter
I would not speak about any one in his absence
I would not reproach, but I would praise
I would not ask, but I would give
For it is through these habits that the young become old and kingly warriors."
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-translator: Kuno Meyer
-source: Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta; RIA MS 23 P 12, 275 foll., dated to the 14th century C.E.
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2008.July.28 - I am mostly working on adding more of my religion, history, psychology, archaeology, and fiction books into my catalogue.
Tags for books in my library are slowly improving. I have finished tagging around 1100, and the other 1700 are partially tagged. However, the majority of my collection mostly has placeholder tags to remind me to do it later... so browsing the collection by that method will not provide a lot of results. Searching by key words is more useful at the present time. (search button is at the top of the screen)
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posted by LadyLovecraft at 4:40 pm (EST) on May 14, 2009
The combination of celtic lore and Lovecraft, plus the avatar of The Green Man is both so rare and so fascinating that I could not resist ...
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posted by LadyLovecraft at 10:08 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2009
On an entirely different topic, do you happen to know what I would type into a book entry in order to get "^" on top of a,o,w,y, etc? Welsh has so many of them, and the titles come in wrong. Very frustrating.
posted by gwernin at 6:35 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2008
It listed one as being the "same" as mine--I don't know which one it was.
For the one you are using- do you mean an older edition of the Neckel-Kuhn?
Well, it's 1914. . . but it's a xeroxed copy with many "interlinear" bits of translation in the ones we studied in class 8-)
The ones I studied in Germany like the Snorra Edda are also xeroxed.
Yes, most people seem to feel the same as you do regarding the Hollander translation. I prefer it to the Larrington translation because Hollander has a pleasant style, but I use all of the ones that I own when I research something.
I like Hollander because his translation FEELS like the original to me. It's a personal taste thing.
The various translators each had different strengths and weaknesses in their individual versions. Most of the editions translated into English have a tendency to either paraphrase the original, which is not good for accuracy, or use bizarre archaisms to try to convey more closely the meaning of the primary source; not a lot of grey area in the middle of the two extremes.
If you're dependent on translations, you need several versions. Translators, even the best ones, have to choose between a literary equivalent and a literal translations. You can't have it both ways.
I wish I had knowledge of Old West Norse to be rusty about! You have the advantage in that respect. I know approximately a few hundred words, and that is not much.
Once upon a time(aka 1978) when I was one of half a dozen in a skaldic seminar in Germany, I found that the occasional bit of prose between some of the skaldic poems we were studying was mostly readable without stopping to look up every third word. I remember thinking something on the lines of "Hey, I can read Old Norse!!" This was my 5th year with the language, mind you. I can't do it any mare, I assure you! That class met once a week for two hours and sometimes we, working as a group, only got through 4 lines of skaldic poetry!! We each had a specialty; mine was metrics.
I find the continental Germanic tongues are both easier to learn and more useful overall in conducting research, so I have focused on them instead of Scandinavian languages.
Oh, they definitely are! But then I began with German and only got into medieval Germanic languages in grad school in my early 40's. M. A. in Germanic Philology. . .
posted by erilarlo at 7:42 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2008
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posted by StevenTill at 7:17 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2008
Also, I see you have Umberto Eco listed. The Name of the Rose is the only one I've read by him but I enjoyed it. Any other suggestions from Eco?
Steven
http://steventill.com
posted by StevenTill at 6:39 pm (EST) on Jul 4, 2008
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posted by gwernin at 10:12 am (EST) on Mar 14, 2008
Thanks!
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F aka mm
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