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DICK RINGLER
RITMENNT
Heimildaskrá
Bibliography of modern Icelandic literature in trans-
lation. Including works written by Icelanders in
other languages. Compiled by P.M. Mitchell and
Kenneth H. Ober. Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell University
Press, 1975. (Islandica, 40.)
Bibliography of modern Icelandic literature in trans-
lation. Supplement, 1971-80. Compiled by Ken-
neth H. Ober. Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell University
Press, 1990. (Islandica, 47.)
Bright, James Wilson. Bright’s Old English grammar
and reader. Edited by Fredcric G. Cassidy and Rich-
ard N. Ringler. 3rd ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 1971.
Cowper, William. The letters and prose writings of
William Cowper. Edited by James King and Charles
Ryskamp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979-86.
Denham, John (þýð.). The destruction of Troy. An
essay upon the second book of Virgils Æneis.
London: H. Moseley, 1656.
Icelandic poems and stories. Translations from mod-
ern Icelandic literature. Edited by Richard Beck.
Princeton (N.Y.): Princeton University Press for the
American-Scandinavian Foundation, [1943].
Jón Þorláksson. íslenzk ljódabók fóns l’orlákssonar
prests að Bægisá. II. Kaupmannahöfn: Þorsteinn
Jónsson, 1843.
Jónas Hallgrímsson. Ritverk Jónasar Hallgrímssonar.
Ritstjórar Haukur Hannesson, Páll Valsson, Sveinn
Yngvi Egilsson. Reykjavík 1989.
Jónas Hallgrimsson. Selected poetry and prose. Edited
and translated with notes and commentary by Dick
Ringler. Developer Peter C. Gorman. Madison
(Wisc.): University of Wisconsin-Madison, General
Library System, [1997]. Vefslóð: http://www.libr-
ary.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/.
Jónas Jónsson og Benedikt Gröndal. Islenzk bygging.
Brautryðjandastarf Guðjóns Samúelssonar. Texti
og ritstjórn Jónas Jónsson og Benedikt Gröndal.
[Reykjavík 1957.]
The Poetic Edda. Translated with an introduction and
explanatory notes by Lee M. Hollander. 2nd ed. rev.
Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1962.
Ringler, Dick. Dilemmas of war and peace. A com-
panion to studies. Madison (Wisc.): The Annen-
berg/CPB Project, 1993.
Ringler, Dick (ritstj.). Dilemmas of war and peace. A
sourcebook. Madison (Wisc.): The Annenberg/CPB
Project, 1993.
Ringler, Dick. Indra's net. Madison (Wisc.): The auth-
or, 1994.
Summary
The author of this article has spent a number of
years translating a substantial selection of Jónas
Hallgrímsson's works into English. Fifty of these
translations, accompanied by a biographical
sketch and an essay on prosody, were published
on thc World Wide Web in 1997 (the URL is
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/). The
author hopes to publish the entire selection in
book form in the near future.
In the present article he explains why he em-
barked on the project and describes both the
difficulties he encountered and the ways he
attempted to overcome them. He maintains that
in general his work as a translator was guided by
three principles: (1) to convey the essential
meaning of Hallgrímsson's poems with tolerable
fidelity and as clearly as possible and at the same
time (2) to suggest the complexity of their formal
features and the virtuosity of the poet's tech-
nique and (3) to do all this using a relatively sim-
ple and straightforward English poetical lexicon
and unforced, idiomatic syntax.
The problems of translation methodology
addressed in the article are illuminated by nu-
merous concrete examples of translation prac-
tice.
(Sverrir Hólmarsson þýddi greinina úr
enslcu.)
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