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Medieval Manuscripts and False Go-betweens: On Editions and Translations of the Old English Pater Noster

Publication date: 05.09.2012

Przekładaniec, Issues in English, Issue 24/2010 – Feminism and translation, pp. 221 - 255

https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864ePC.12.013.0575

Authors

Monika Opalińska
University of Warsaw, Poland
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Medieval Manuscripts and False Go-betweens: On Editions and Translations of the Old English Pater Noster

Abstract

The Lord’s Prayer played an important role in the formation of early Anglo-Saxon Church. The signifi cance of Oratio Dominica was raised in ecclesiastical epistles and refl ected in state charts and laws issued at the time. Poetical paraphrases of the prayer formed part of contemporary religious literature. Their authors continued the long-standing Cædmonian tradition and used the ancient Germanic poetic diction to express Christian values. Translation of these poems requires close reading of the manuscript or its facsimile and working with reliable editions. Scholarly commentary and editorial guidance help to analyse the poems’ thought and grammar. Therefore, the selection of a dependable critical edition is the prerequisite to the esthetically satisfying and adequate translation of these extraordinary Anglo-Latin poetical masterpieces

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Information: Przekładaniec, Issues in English, Issue 24/2010 – Feminism and translation, pp. 221 - 255

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Medieval Manuscripts and False Go-betweens: On Editions and Translations of the Old English Pater Noster

English:

Medieval Manuscripts and False Go-betweens: On Editions and Translations of the Old English Pater Noster

Authors

University of Warsaw, Poland

Published at: 05.09.2012

Article status: Open

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Monika Opalińska (Author) - 100%

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