| Title |
Dreaming the hammer back: on Teodoras Bieliackinas’s translation of Þrymskviða / |
| Authors |
Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė, Ieva |
| DOI |
10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2019.4 |
| ISBN |
9786090701744 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Shaping the rings of the Scandinavian fellowship. Festschrift in Honour of Ērika Sausverde. / Edited by Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė and Loreta Vaicekauskienė... Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2019. p. 61-85.. ISBN 9786090701744 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Teodoras Bieliackinas ; "differential margin" ; translation of Old Norse poetry |
| Abstract [eng] |
The paper deals with the legacy of Teodoras Bieliackinas (1907–1947), a Lithuanian exile in Iceland, the first Lithuanian professional Scandinavianist and the first translator of Eddic poetry into Lithuanian. With its background of the “biographical turn” in translation studies and with the help of the concept of “differential margin” proposed by Theo Hermans, the paper focuses on Bieliackinas’s rendition of Þrymskviða into Lithuanian. The aim is to trace the translator’s own ideological agenda, which appears to have been inscribed by him into the Old Norse song. It is claimed that the song about the loss and recovery of Thor’s hammer has been invested by Bieliackinas with a new – allegorical – meaning and can be read as a message of hope that Bieliackinas was sending to his countrymen who, like himself, were scattered around the world and mourned the loss of their state. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2019 |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2019 |
| CC license |
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