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Also in the Czech translations of modern Icelandic literature, we
can probably say that some kind of consensus is slowly forming. The
nom. ending of masculine names is mostly omitt ed in oblique cases.
But in contrast to Old Norse names, it has been shown that in nom.
masc. the ending is mostly retained for Icelandic names. The situation
for Modern Icelandic is diff erent from Old Norse since there are far
fewer names used in the texts, and they are only of minor importance
for the artistic character of the texts. It might also be felt as inappro-
priate to deform names that are in use nowadays, e.g. by removing
the nom. ending.
As always in translations, one is “dancing between two fi res”: on
the one hand, there are the demands of the users of the target lan-
guage, who want every single noun to be declined, and on the other
hand there is the original language, where the corruption of names
by tearing away their parts, such as -ur, or -dótt ir, changing the stem
vowel, or adding a Czech possessive suffi x -ová, would feel inappro-
priate.
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