Lit&Lunch: Difficulties of Medieval Translation | SOMA

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You probably read Beowulf in high school, but have you ever read another Anglo-Saxon medieval poem?

Lit&Lunch event:

Poets and translators Greg Delanty and Michael Matto present their new book The Word Exchange, a collection of 123 medieval poems translated by leading writers, like Robert Hass and Seamus Heaney.

Special guest Robert Hass discusses the special challenges of translating from a centuries-old language.

This event in brought to you by The Center for the Art of Translation; if there’s one group that’s going to know about how hard it is to translate a dead tongue, it’s these guys.

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