Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints (American University Studies)

By Marie Nelson

The stories of female heroes of Old English poetry have been more read about than read, but Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints now makes the stories of Judith, a female hero of Old Testament times, and Juliana and Helena, who lived in the patristic era, newly accessible. Each new story is accompanied by a facing Old English text and an Afterword that, without over-reliance on critical jargon, gives attention to Marie Nelson's own translation strategies and to her awareness of choices Anglo-Saxon translators made as they re-created the lives of female heroes for readers of their own time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820415766
• ISBN13: 9780820415765
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 6.5"