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Law Terms in Saga and Translation

Law terms peculiar for the medieval Icelandic society are often difficult to translate into modern idiom the difficulties being of a cultural as well as linguistic nature. The problems range from lack of a modern term for a medieval concept to inadequate meaning of a cognate term. Terminology as it appears in some of the sagas is examined in comparison with its translation into modern Swedish, English and Croatian.

law terms, Icelandic sagas, modern translation, cultural change, linguistic adequacy

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