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Völsung Ballads from the Faroe Islands in English Translation, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Völsung Ballads from the Faroe Islands in English Translation

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This volume presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Völsung hero Sjúrður, the pre-eminent dragon-slaying hero of the Germanic Middle Ages, in English translation accompanied by the Faroese original. The ballads show that far from being culturally isolated, the Faroe Islands were an integral part of the Germanic storytelling tradition in the Middle Ages and later. The in-depth introduction explores the Faroese storytelling tradition as preserved in the ballads, which are still danced and performed today, and highlights the vibrancy of the tradition in contemporary culture. The publication and research history of the Faroese ballads is outlined, and summaries of each ballad are provided. These translations are an essential resource for anybody interested in medieval heroic literature.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-03-31
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 431 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Foundations
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Arc Humanities Press
  • ISBN: 9781802700428
  • Översättare: Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen, Mortan Nolsøe Jacobsen, Helen F Leslie-Jacobsen
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Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen is associate professor of Old Norse philology at the University of Bergen. From 2021 to 2023 she led the Young CAS project “Ballads Across Borders: The Faroe Islands in the Norse Story-Telling World” at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She currently leads the CAS Alumni Project “Ballads Across Borders: Theoretical Approaches and Research Infrastructure.”

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[T]he Volsung legend is [...] a foundational story for many Northern European nation-states including Iceland, England, and famously, Germany. The reflexes of the Volsung legend manifest in much material artwork and in such literary masterworks as Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, Völsungasaga, the Eddic poems and Icelandic rímur, and the Faroese ballads concerning the Volsung legend. Of this formidable list, the Faroese ballads have received the least scholarly attention, and to note this fact is to understate matters.[...]We must be grateful to Leslie-Jacobsen and Jacobsen and the other participants in this project for reminding us of this critically understudied tradition and for re-presenting this “unparalleled and undervalued material” (17) to us in such an accessible and conscientious edition. This reviewer is personally grateful for this set of thoughtful and often beautiful translations; I will certainly use them in my classroom, both when I next teach a dedicated seminar on “dragonslayers” and when I offer my survey of Old Norse storytelling traditions.

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