'A, fredome is a noble thing!' La traducción de los poemas sobre la Guerra de la Independencia de Escocia
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Universidad de Salamanca
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ISSN: 1988-2963
Year of publication: 2023
Issue: 17
Type: Article
More publications in: 1611: revista de historia de la traducción = a journal of translation history = revista d'història de la traducció
Abstract
Barbour’s Bruce and Hary’s Wallace, the poems about the heroes in the struggle to regain Scottish independence after the English invasion at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries —two major works of non-Gaelic Scottish medieval literature— had not been translated into Spanish until the author of this paper did so. In it, the historical setting is outlined and there is a review of the critical editions employed as well as a brief account of the language of the source texts. The decisions adopted for both translations are discussed, including the reasons for starting with The Bruce, given the intertextual echoes of that poem in The Wallace. The option for the use of prose with some sections in verse and of a non-archaizing type of Spanish is presented. The treatment of proper names and place names in translation is also dealt with, as well as the paratexts included in both publications. Regarding narrative points of view, the manipulations of both authors with respect to known historical facts are highlighted: in The Bruce, especially because of what is omitted, and in The Wallace, due to the alteration in the chronology and the invention of certain episodes, some of them adapted from The Bruce.
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