Power, skill and virtue in the Old English Boethius
Nicole Guenther Discenza
In Alfred's famous Preface to his translation of the Regula pastoralis , king writes that he translated ‘hwilum word be worde, hwilum andgit andgiete’ (7.19–20); a similar phrase occurs in proem Boethius (1.2–3). Yet words different languages are rarely exact equivalents. Translators select which they feel capture primary sense source and match secondary meanings connotations only if can. Similarities between two terms can reveal where conceptual systems target cultures overlap denotations complex were most important translator. Differences indicate how differ what other might have influenced well-established system translation, certain become accepted as standard equivalents particular languages. Alfred, however, was position not employing equivalidents but trying create them. By time worked on Wærferth had probably Gregory's Dialogi own likely complete, no models availabel. As one earliest Anglo-Saxon translators, producing translations De consolatione Augustine's Soliloquia first fifty psalms, Alfred solve problems himself.
Anglo-Saxon England