The Art of Translation in the Old English Judith

Garner, Lori Ann

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“…Проблему соотношения исходного библейского текста и поэмы рассматривает в статье «Искусство перевода в древнеанглийской "Иудифи"» Л. А. Гарнер [11]. В итоге исследовательница приходит к выводу, что мастерство автора «Иудифи» состояло в том, что он «творчески связал материал источника с англосаксонской поэтической традицией» [11, р.…”

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Old English poem «Judith» as a reflection of Anglo-Saxon early medieval mentality

Yeutukhou

2020

Journal of the Belarusian State University. History

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The article analyzes the reflection of the Western European early medieval mentality in the Оld English poem «Judith». The following research methods were used: clustering (formation of a cluster of verbal reflections of mental attitudes) and historical-semantic analysis of objects included in the cluster. Poem «Judith» information, connected with the mentality, concerns two lines: the motivation to participate in the battle, and the posthumous punishment of the main antagonist of Holofernes. The analysis allowed the author to draw the following conclusions. Firstly, the poem «Judith» is not a direct poetic paraphrase of the eponymous book of the Оld Testament. The text contains a number of additions that carry completely new information, revealing in particular problems associated with the mentality (Judith speech, the posthumous fate of Holofernes). Secondly, the poem «Judith» allows us to distinguish two levels in the mentality of Anglo-Saxon society – basic one and emerging. The first of them is represented by the concept of «glory» (wuldor and tir). The use of the word wuldor indicates a significant stability of structures associated with the foundations of the mentality of society. For Anglo-Saxon society such a basis was war and glory. The glory had been denoted by the word, rooted in the days of the Old German community (linked to the Gothic language), and unknown to the Vikings. The same stability shows respect for the leader of the enemy troops. The second level is represented by the image of «snake hall» (wyrm-sele), which was formed during the wars with the Vikings in the 10th century for the liberation of the occupied territories. Thirdly, the presence of two levels in the mentality allows author to consider the period of its formation as open. Thus the innovation, arised under Scandinavian influence, was not entrenched in mentality.

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Old English poem «Judith» as a reflection of Anglo-Saxon early medieval mentality

Yeutukhou

2020

Journal of the Belarusian State University. History

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A History of Old English Literature

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The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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The Old English Judith , which survives in a single and fragmentary manuscript (London, BL, Cotton Vitellius A.xv, folios 202 r –9 v ), offers readers one of the most complex, dynamic, and controversial heroines in Anglo‐Saxon literature. Composed in the alliterative verse form characterizing all Old English poetry, Judith relates the story of a Hebrew woman who ultimately conquers an Assyrian army, by first decapitating the drunken general Holofernes and then leading her fellow Bethulians to their victorious battle. Though based loosely on chapters xii–xvi of the Book of Judith , the poem is best appreciated on its own terms as a richly energetic text produced in dialogue with multiple religious and cultural traditions.

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The Art of Translation in the Old English Judith

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Old English poem «Judith» as a reflection of Anglo-Saxon early medieval mentality

Old English poem «Judith» as a reflection of Anglo-Saxon early medieval mentality

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