Oddi
Room 206
- Free admission
Guðrún Laufey Guðmundsdóttir, National and University Library of Iceland, will give a talk in the Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts lecture series. The lecture is called A bibliography of translations of medieval Icelandic literature
The talk will be held in Oddi 206 on October 27, from 12:00 to 13.00. All are welcome, and please do bring lunch!
In the MSHL lecture series, experts from various fields of digital humanities present their research in short and accessible talks.
The talk will also be streamed on the Centre's YouTube channel.
Click here to see the schedule and abstracts of the talk series.
About the talk
The aim of the database, sagas.landsbokasafn.is, hosted by Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn, is to keep track of translations of Old-Icelandic literature, Eddic poetry, sagas of Icelanders, þáttum, kings‘ sagas, bishops‘ sagas, contemporary sagas, legendary sagas, and romances, all in all, 418 sagas.
Information about the translations was sought far and wide, for instance in bibliographical works, databases, in libraries in Reykjavík, Copenhagen, and elsewhere, as well as from scholars around the world. More than 1.200 translators are now registered in the database, which contains information on ca. 2.000 books and around 10.000 references to translated sagas. The oldest being a Danish translation of Heimskringla dating from 1594, and the most recent an English translation of Hávamál, published earlier this year. The bibliography is a work in progress. New translations are continuously added to the database and the corresponding books are added to the library's collections for researchers and visitors
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