ŚREDNIOWIECZNE RĘKOPISY I FAŁSZYWI POŚREDNICY. O EDYCJACH I PRZEKŁADACH STAROANGIELSKICH PARAFRAZ PATER NOSTER

• Authors: Monika Opalińska

Title variants

EN

Medieval Manuscripts and False Go-Betweens. On Editions and Translations of Old-English Paraphrases of Pater Noster

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The Lord’s Prayer played an important role in the formation of early Anglo-Saxon Church. The significance of Oratio Dominica was raised in ecclesiastical correspondence and reflected in state charts and laws issued at the time. Prose translations and poetical paraphrases formed part of contemporary literature. Their authors continued the long- standing Cædmonian tradition and used the ancient Germanic poetic diction to express Christian values. These texts, therefore, indirectly open the way to our understanding of the intricate relations existing in the Latin-Germanic world. Conveying these peculiar artefacts of the Anglo-Saxon Christian culture in another language imposes special duties on a translator. Above all, the extant manuscripts must be studied with meticulous care and compared with reliable editions. The selection of a dependable critical edition is the prerequisite to the esthetically satisfying and adequate translation. This prior condition is especially important when liturgical poetry is introduced into a distant culture to which the subtle beauty of the Anglo-Saxon literary world is virtually unknown

Keywords

EN

editing; manuscripts; Middle Ages; Old English; The Lord’s Prayer

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 2(24)
• Pages: 291-326

Dates

online

2011-12-10

Contributors

author

Monika Opalińska

• Instytut Anglistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/16891864PC.11.018.0217