[Shaun J. Russell]

Originally Posted by Don Jones

Thanks, Janice, for a refreshingly intelligent thread. I for one have nothing to add but to assert confidently, without a shred of favoritism via Eratosphere, that Tim's and the late Alan's translation of this excerpt is superior to Heaney's. The latter doesn't have the tightness or control or the readability.

Good to know. I've read three translations, and Heaney's is the best of those three...but I have yet to read the Alan and Tim translation. I should get on that.