I have had the delight of getting to read online Dr. Crawford's work, which is, as so entitled, an adaptation of the Star Wars saga (with a literary agent hypothesis that it is a synthesis of two MSS, with the Prequel MS being worse than the Original MS, as well as an OHG poem on the matter, which is used to explain deliberately-introduced lacunae). Dr. Crawford is a professor of Nordic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and it seems, a really, really huge nerd.
Originally posted as a series of blog posts with detailed chapter-by-chapter annotations (now unfortunately lost to the Internet Gods and the vagaries of blog editing), there are now two editions of this rather interesting work, one in PDF, which has the side-by-side Old Norse and English versions, but with the commentary restricted to an explanation of the lacuna that occurs during its version of the Battle of Yavin, the Battle of Hoth and the encounter with Yoda/Jothi https://tattuinardoelasaga.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/tattuinardoela-saga-complete.pdf
And another, online edition which has a detailed pseudo-introduction in keeping with the Literary Agent Hypothesis of a discovered synthesis of two MSS plus a reconstruction of a missing conclusion based on a OHG poem. It also contains slightly more commentary on plot variations in the tradition, from whether Hanni/Han shot first, to the incest subplot which was rejected as a later medieval innovation due to it being out of tune with saga-era Icelandic sensibilities. Also an explication of why he hates Jarjari/Jar-Jar.
https://tattuinardoelasaga.wordpres...ela-saga-if-star-wars-were-an-icelandic-saga/
Enjoy!
Originally posted as a series of blog posts with detailed chapter-by-chapter annotations (now unfortunately lost to the Internet Gods and the vagaries of blog editing), there are now two editions of this rather interesting work, one in PDF, which has the side-by-side Old Norse and English versions, but with the commentary restricted to an explanation of the lacuna that occurs during its version of the Battle of Yavin, the Battle of Hoth and the encounter with Yoda/Jothi https://tattuinardoelasaga.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/tattuinardoela-saga-complete.pdf
And another, online edition which has a detailed pseudo-introduction in keeping with the Literary Agent Hypothesis of a discovered synthesis of two MSS plus a reconstruction of a missing conclusion based on a OHG poem. It also contains slightly more commentary on plot variations in the tradition, from whether Hanni/Han shot first, to the incest subplot which was rejected as a later medieval innovation due to it being out of tune with saga-era Icelandic sensibilities. Also an explication of why he hates Jarjari/Jar-Jar.
https://tattuinardoelasaga.wordpres...ela-saga-if-star-wars-were-an-icelandic-saga/
Enjoy!
