Perspectives on Translating Medieval Law

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1726
dc.contributor.author	Leslie-Jacobsen Helen F.
dc.title	Perspectives on Translating Medieval Law. The Norwegian Landslov of 1274
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This paper demonstrates strategies in translating the first national law-code of Norway, the Landslov from 1274, into English. One can argue the need to have Old Norwegian law in English to make it more accessible. To ensure that a target audience distant in time and culture are able to understand the law, the paper argues that translators of Old Norwegian law must pay special attention that the vocabulary they select has equivalence of meaning in modern English. Historical legal terms and administrative positions and divisions often have no direct modern equivalent, or even have a misleading modern English cognate.
dc.relation.ispartof	Medieval and Modern Philologies
dc.relation.ispartof	Serie occidentale
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-05-24
dc.dateAccepted	2018-02-19
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-01-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-250-5/perspectives-on-translating-medieval-law/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-248-2/008
dc.identifier.issn	2610-945X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9441
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-250-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-248-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Landslov
dc.subject	Landslov
dc.subject	Law
dc.subject	Law
dc.subject	Legal translation
dc.subject	Legal translation
dc.subject	Old Norse
dc.subject	Old Norse
dc.subject	Old Norwegian
dc.subject	Old Norwegian

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Perspectives on Translating Medieval Law

The Norwegian Landslov of 1274

Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen Universitetet i Bergen, Norge

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This paper demonstrates strategies in translating the first national law-code of Norway, the Landslov from 1274, into English. One can argue the need to have Old Norwegian law in English to make it more accessible. To ensure that a target audience distant in time and culture are able to understand the law, the paper argues that translators of Old Norwegian law must pay special attention that the vocabulary they select has equivalence of meaning in modern English. Historical legal terms and administrative positions and divisions often have no direct modern equivalent, or even have a misleading modern English cognate.

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May 24, 2018

Accepted

Feb. 19, 2018

Submitted

Jan. 17, 2018

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978-88-6969-250-5

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978-88-6969-248-2

Keywords: Landslov • Law • Legal translation • Old Norwegian • Old Norse

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