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Loading... The Táin: A New Translation of the Táin bó Cúailngeby Ciaran Carson
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Really fun to read, much more accessible than Kinsella’s translation and not as dry. As always Carsons use of language is a joyous experience. You get caught up in the story telling from the first chapter.  monta | Aug 6, 2009 |  sweet jesus, they just don't make 'em like they used to! never read about a hundred warrior's hearts exploding of sheer fright at the sound of an oncoming army until i read this version of the irish myth. beautiful! (  ) mikewick | Apr 22, 2009 | The Táin Bó Cúailnge, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley, is a very old Irish folktale concerning the deeds of Cu Chulainn in defending his homeland from invasion by a competing army. The story is full of heroic deeds, warriors fighting, trickery and more - usually told over fires by bards. Ciaran Carson's new translation, The Tain, preserves that bardic sense, with text that just begs to be read aloud. If you like heroic mythology and epic stories, this is a great one! ( ) drneutron | Jan 10, 2009 | The first new translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge in forty years. ( ) chamekke | Mar 22, 2008 | Ah, the great deeds of Cu Chulainn. How I love this story. And how wonderful to have a new translation. As Carson points out, there are places where his translation is nearly the same as Kinsella's, but that's bound to happen when you have two people translating from the same source material. That being said, I do believe I like Carson's translation better. He tends to play with words a bit more and that lends a bit more immediacy to this translation--it sounds more like I imagine the oral versions would have. This is especially notable in the rosc passages, though as Carson says in his introduction, this is because strides in translating them have been made since Kinsella's translation. Everything I've read says they're extremely difficult passages. I did miss the remscela--the prequels to The Tain--that Kinsella included, though the important ones are told in the endnotes so it's a minor quibble. But just once I'd like to see a version of The Tain without a bull on the cover. (  )2  PirateJenny | Feb 11, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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