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Judged by Von Hahn's translation. Great as his merit is in having first drawn the attention of his countrymen to the rich treasure of fairy legends (in a prose form) to be found in Greece, he was rather a mythologist than a linguist, and his German version is not only free, but in some instances either demonstrably inaccurate or founded on a different reading to that followed by Pio. In regard to the choice I have made within the limits assigned, and resisting the te1nptation,to enlarge the.,present volume either from those portions of Von Hahn's of which the Greek text is not published, or from the charming French collection'of Emile legrandz-rgmez'l d'e Calztes Popzz/az're; Grew, Paris, 1881, of which also the original is not yet accessible, I have to say that I was still further restr1cted in the matter of selection, by the character of the legends themselves, many of which exhibit all that naive unconsciousness of the proprieties of civilized life, which belongs to popular thought and speech, and which, while wholly innocent in itself, renders the narratives 11n presentable in polite society, except at the cost of such mutilation as would deprive them of scientific value. For this scientific value consists essentially, as it seems to me. In the faithful and rigorous preservation both of the matter and the form of the original, so far as this is possible and compatible with translation. I have therefore not sought nor desned to remove the uncouth abruptness of the narrative,~or to make it in any sense conform to the demands of literary elegance; I have rather endeavoured to retain, so far as the English idiom at all admits, even the rapid transition from the past tense to the historic present, and r'z'w t'aryd, which is so specially characteristic of popular oral narration, and have left intact, as far as I could, the somewhat confusing inter calation of comment, and often far-fetched proverbial allusion and illustration, which is another strongly marked trait of these vernacular recitals. The main interest for the student attaching to these tales centres around the problmgration of.
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Judged by Von Hahn's translation. Great as his merit is in having first drawn the attention of his countrymen to the rich treasure of fairy legends (in a prose form) to be found in Greece, he was rather a mythologist than a linguist, and his German version is not only free, but in some instances either demonstrably inaccurate or founded on a different reading to that followed by Pio. In regard to the choice I have made within the limits assigned, and resisting the te1nptation,to enlarge the.,present volume either from those portions of Von Hahn's of which the Greek text is not published, or from the charming French collection'of Emile legrandz-rgmez'l d'e Calztes Popzz/az're; Grew, Paris, 1881, of which also the original is not yet accessible, I have to say that I was still further restr1cted in the matter of selection, by the character of the legends themselves, many of which exhibit all that naive unconsciousness of the proprieties of civilized life, which belongs to popular thought and speech, and which, while wholly innocent in itself, renders the narratives 11n presentable in polite society, except at the cost of such mutilation as would deprive them of scientific value. For this scientific value consists essentially, as it seems to me. In the faithful and rigorous preservation both of the matter and the form of the original, so far as this is possible and compatible with translation. I have therefore not sought nor desned to remove the uncouth abruptness of the narrative,~or to make it in any sense conform to the demands of literary elegance; I have rather endeavoured to retain, so far as the English idiom at all admits, even the rapid transition from the past tense to the historic present, and r'z'w t'aryd, which is so specially characteristic of popular oral narration, and have left intact, as far as I could, the somewhat confusing inter calation of comment, and often far-fetched proverbial allusion and illustration, which is another strongly marked trait of these vernacular recitals. The main interest for the student attaching to these tales centres around the problmgration of.
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