TIL The Icelandic translation of Dracula, Makt Myrkanna, or Powers of Darkness, published in 1901, differs significantly from the English version and no one noticed until 2014.

Flying Squid@lemmy.world · 12 days ago

TIL The Icelandic translation of Dracula, Makt Myrkanna, or Powers of Darkness, published in 1901, differs significantly from the English version and no one noticed until 2014.

Flying Squid@lemmy.world · 12 days ago

Fleming noted that in Dracula, Stoker worked in subtle sexual references to serve as metaphors for “…deeper, dark concepts: the idea of an antichrist, the blood-sucking serving as a compelling, hellish inversion of communion. Makt Myrkranna, conversely, could have had the subtitle Lust in a Cape”.[21] In Makt Myrkranna, Harker has an obsession with breasts as he speaks frequently of the “bosom” of various women he encounters in Transylvania.[21]

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 12 days ago

I guess I’ll have to learn Icelandic then. It’s a shame that there’s no easier way to access vampire erotica.

AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 11 days ago

It has been translated into English (this translation is dated 2017)

However, far be it from me too discourage anyone from learning a language. After all, what better exemplifies the fallibility of translation than this story?

Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee · 11 days ago

Having been to Iceland, I can understand the obsession.

TIL The Icelandic translation of Dracula, Makt Myrkanna, or Powers of Darkness, published in 1901, differs significantly from the English version and no one noticed until 2014.

TIL The Icelandic translation of Dracula, Makt Myrkanna, or Powers of Darkness, published in 1901, differs significantly from the English version and no one noticed until 2014.

Powers of Darkness (Iceland) - Wikipedia