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Of Reynaert the Fox: Text and Facing Translation of the Middle Dutch Beast Epic Van Den Vos Reynaerde
by Willem die Madocke maecte
Now, to really be able to appreciate this I would have had to read the Old Dutch text and look up the bits I didn't understand. Problem with that being the amount of time it would have taken when I had to read this within a certain amount of time. So I read the English translation facing the Old Dutch including all the notes, so I did get the gist of some of the Old Dutch meanings, but obviously in English the text misses a lot, the rhymes for instance, but also certain ways of saying things that are not particularly translatable.
For study purposes this way of doing things was fine. I just didn't get the full enjoyment of the narrative.
I do think it is a very interesting text and I look forward to looking into it in more detail in the future.
I thought it was quite funny at times and I enjoyed the build up of the story and the characters. It was very interesting to look at the text from a medieval point of view, as that is the time it was written, and what we discussed in the lecture on it today what the function was in those times as having animals as the main characters, which led to interesting discussion points.
Only interesting if you like medieval literature/poetry and probably best in a Dutch translation rather than this English one I bought.
For study purposes this way of doing things was fine. I just didn't get the full enjoyment of the narrative.
I do think it is a very interesting text and I look forward to looking into it in more detail in the future.
I thought it was quite funny at times and I enjoyed the build up of the story and the characters. It was very interesting to look at the text from a medieval point of view, as that is the time it was written, and what we discussed in the lecture on it today what the function was in those times as having animals as the main characters, which led to interesting discussion points.
Only interesting if you like medieval literature/poetry and probably best in a Dutch translation rather than this English one I bought.