An Atypical Translator from Armenian to Georgian?
Journal Title: Pro Georgia. Journal of Kartvelological Studies - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 27
Abstract
As soon as 1901, N. Marr published and translated in Russian the Georgian version of the Commentary of the Song of songs by Hippolytos. This was part of eight treatises attibuted to Hippolytos in the so-called Shatberdis krebuli, an old Georgian manuscrit written in the seventies of the tenth century. N. Marr recognized that most of the texts found in this manuscript had been translated from the Armenian. But sometimes, the Armenian model was lost – this was the case for the Commentary of the Song of songs – and the Greek model of the Armenian is also lost. So, the Georgian text is very valuable! Later on, in 1965, G. Garitte published the text anew, with a Latin translation. He could use a second Georgian manuscript, from Jerusalem. From this, it became clear that the text of the Shatberdis krebuli was not a very good one: in particular, many words or even sentences had been dropped. But still, another question was to be answered:why is that Commentary of the Song of songs so difficult to understand. The eminent kartvelologist G. Garitte writes sometimes in his translation: « I do not know what this means »... I shall try to offer an hypothesis to explain this strange and rare fact.
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Bernard Outtier
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