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Song of Roland

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 04:17pm on 20/09/2005
There are a fair many editions and translations of the Chanson de Roland out there. Which do you prefer over the others? I'm looking for both an edition and a translation. They don't need to be in the same volume.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:55pm on 20/09/2005
You're ahead of me. I haven't read it at all, not in its entirety. Happily, there are many versions of it available online, if you're interested.

I'm interested in knowing which are the academically-respectable versions of it at the moment.
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posted by [identity profile] rhube.livejournal.com at 04:08pm on 20/09/2005
heh - I deleted my post because I realised I'd misread your request as for Childe Roland with my fangirl onetrack mind. I was hoping I could delete it before you noticed.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 04:41pm on 20/09/2005
Does it make you feel better to know I haven't read Childe Roland either? There is so much I want to read when my dissertation is entirely finished.
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posted by [identity profile] justinsomnia.livejournal.com at 03:52pm on 20/09/2005
When I took Old French and we did Roland, we used this edition. I trust the professor's choice here.

And for a translation, I have the Dorothy Sayers version. I don't know if it's the best, but it reads well. She's an accomplished mystery writer and she translates medieval literature! She's translated Dante as well.
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posted by [identity profile] ajodasso.livejournal.com at 04:12pm on 20/09/2005
Sayers's version is good, and W.S. Merwin's is interesting, mostly because he chose to do it in blocks of prose. I tend to swear by the 1970something Oxford edition, though -- it's two volumes, and I forget the translator. It's a guy. I liked his the best, though.
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 05:25pm on 20/09/2005
I've used Burgess (also Penguin) pretty much since it became available (I teach Roland at least a couple of times a year -- three this year). The translation is more accessible than Sayers' and much less stilted. I've always had problems with her using "paynims" (WTF?) for "pagans", etc. (Apologies to those who love her translation)

Also the Burgess version has a good introduction and enough of the poem in OF that even my freshmen students with some modern French are able to go back and forth between English and OF and see some of the language shifts.
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