{"id":3984,"date":"2010-03-23T07:51:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2010-03-22T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:14:51","slug":"star-wars-in-old-norse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3984","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars in Old Norse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because why not?<\/p>\n

Jackson Crawford is a PhD student in Scandinavian Studies, specializing in Old Norse and its descendant languages. He was trying to find a way to sharpen his linguistic skills in a creative way, and when a colleague pointed out how well Star Wars<\/i> would work as an Icelandic saga a lj\u00f3sapera went on.<\/p>\n

His efforts are being posted at the Tatt\u00fa\u00edn\u00e1rd\u0153la saga<\/a> blog, along with an English translation. He’s beginning from Chapter 1 with the story of Anakinn himingangari and his childhood as a slave in Tatt\u00fa\u00edn\u00e1rdalr. Eventually he’ll become the disciple of Viking V\u00edga-\u00d3b\u00edvan, meet Queen Pa\u00f0\u00e9ma R\u00fav\u00edsd\u00f3ttir, and father the twins L\u00fakr and Leia.<\/p>\n

The “familar but somewhat garbled” story and faux-scholarly footnotes remind me a bit of Crichton’s warped retelling of Beowulf in Eaters of the Dead<\/i>.<\/p>\n

V\u00edga-\u00d3b\u00edvan commends Leia to the care of a local go\u00f0i and L\u00fakr to a man whom he believes to be Anakinn\u2019s brother, but who is probably a disguised \u00d3\u00f0inn. D\u00e9or speaks of the son of \u201cAnacan\u201d as having been raised by \u201cOwen,\u201d which may suggest that this interpretation is correct, but if this is in fact the name of the god, it is unclear why the form should lack the initial glide of Anglo-Saxon (unless this part of the story originated in the Danelaw; for full discussion of this and other problems of the text in Deor see Nashat 2010).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also really like the fact that in this version of the story, the character “Jarjari inn heimski” is mentioned only in passing as a local fool slain by Anakinn in a childhood berserker rage. Now that’s<\/em> quality storytelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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