Weinstock, John
"Sami prehistory revisited: assimilation, transactions, admixture and the phylogeographic picture of Scandinavia." International Sami Research Seminar. Forthcoming 2012.
“Genetic heterogeneity in Scandinavia: Not only the Sami (also in Norwegian: Genetisk heterogenitet i Skandinavia: ikke bare samene).” L'Image du Sápmi II. Études comparées Textes réunis par Kajsa Andersson. Humanistica Oerebroensia, 2013.
“Two champions of Sami literature and culture: Laila Stien and Ailo Gaup.” L'Image du Sápmi III. Études comparées Textes réunis par Kajsa Andersson. Humanistica Oerebroensia, 2013.
“Assimilation of the Sámi: Its Unforeseen Effects Scandinavian Studies. Winter2013, Volume 85, Issue 4.
“At the frontier: Sámi linguistics gets a boost from outside.” New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics. Ed. M. Hilpert, J-O. Östman, C. Mertzlufft, M. Rießler and J. Duke. De Gruyter, 2015.
“Sámi language(s) in the European context.”and Prospects. Sture Ureland and John Stewart [Eds.]. Studies in Eurolinguistics, Vol. 9, 2015
“To forkjempere for samisk litteratur og kultur” (also in English: Two Champions of Sami literature and culture). L'Image du Sápmi II. Études comparées Textes réunis par Kajsa Andersson. Humanistica Oerebroensia, 2015.
King Ælfred
Ælfred (849 – 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Ælfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Danes, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". Details of his life are described in a work by bishop Asser. Ælfred's reputation has been that of a learned and merciful man who encouraged education and improved his kingdom's legal system and military structure.
Remarkably, Ælfred, undoubtedly with the advice and aid of his court scholars, translated four works from Latin himself: Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, St. Augustine's Soliloquies, and the first fifty psalms of the Psalter. The Old English versions of Orosius's Histories against the Pagans and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People are nowadays no longer seen as Ælfred's own translations because of lexical and stylistic differences. Nonetheless, the consensus remains that they were part of the Ælfredian programme of translation. In the Orosius text he included two travelogues reported to him by Ohthere, a Norwegian trader, and Wulfstan, who travelled the Baltic Sea.
Lyngstad, Sverre
The distinguished critic and translator Sverre Lyngstad was born in Norway in 1922. He studied English, History, Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the University of Oslo, the University of Washington, Seattle, and New York University. He taught at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. Hunger (1996), the first of his many translations of Knut Hamsun in English established him as sensitive to language and dialect, as well as meticulously faithful to the original text while recreating all its poetic qualities.
More were to follow: Pan (1998), On Overgrown Paths (1999), Mysteries (2001), The Last Joy (2003), and Growth of the Soil (2007). He also translated a number of other Norwegian classics; Arne Garborg’s Weary Men (1999); and Sigurd Hoel’s Meeting at the Milestone (2002) as well as a range of outstanding modern writers, like Faldbakken, Solstad, B. Haff. His reflections on them were drawn together in Jonas Lie (1977), Sigurd Hoel’s Fiction (1984), and Knut Hamsun, Novelist: A Critical Assessment (2005).
Dr. Lyngstad was the recipient of several grants, prizes and awards, and has been honored by the King of Norway with the St. Olav Medal and the Knight’s Cross First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. He died in Port Jefferson, N.Y. in May 2011.
Lehbert, Margitt
Graves, Peter
Peter Graves was born in Wales in 1942. He taught Swedish and Scandinavian literature at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Scotland. Since retiring in 2008 he has been a full-time translator, concentrating in particular on Lagerlöf and Strindberg.
His new translation of "The People of Hemsö" appeared in 2012, his new translation of "Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey" being published at Norvik Press in 2013.
Zdanys, Jonas
Jonas Zdanys, a bilingual poet and translator, is the author of forty books, thirty-seven of them collections of poetry written in English and in Lithuanian and of translations from the Lithuanian, most recently The Kingfisher’s Reign (2012) and Artistic Cloning: Poems by Agnė Žagrakalytė (2010). He has received a number of prizes and book awards for his own poetry and for his translations of Lithuanian poetry into English and was the subject of an exhibit at the National Library of Lithuania on the occasion of his 60th birthday. He has taught at Yale University and the State University of New York, served for more than a decade as the state of Connecticut’s Chief Academic Officer, and is currently Professor of English at Sacred Heart University in the United States, where he teaches creative writing.
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