[Parution] La Légende de Sigurd et Gudrún - 2010

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(je reprend ce que je disais sur JRRVF)


Lu sur la Tolkien Library :

HarperCollins is to publish a new book by the late Lord of the Rings author J R R Tolkien. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, edited and introduced by Tolkien’s son Christopher, will be published in hardback in May 2009.

The previously unpublished work was written while Tolkien was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University during the 1920s and '30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The publication will make available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and the Fall of the Niflungs.

David Brawn, the publishing director of HarperCollins UK, said: "It is an entirely unpublished work, dates from around the early 1930s, and will be published - all being well - in May this year. Otherwise the clue as to what the book will contain is in the title - THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND GUDRUN. You will surmise from this that it is not a Middle-earth book, but we are confident that Tolkien fans will be fascinated by it."

Evidemment, ce sera pour les anglophones. En gros (pas le temps de traduire entièrement), HarperCollins va publier La Légende de Sigurd et Gudrún, un travail de Tolkien jusque là inédit, et qui fut écrit dans les années 20 et 30 (avant la rédaction de Bilbo). C'est une réécritude en vers et en anglais de la Volsüng et de la Chute des Niflung. Si tout va bien, tout ça sera publié en Mai.

Pas de TdM mais j'attends ça quand même avec impatience \o/