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Translating Gjergj Fishta's Epic Masterpiece Lahuta E Malcis into English as The Highland Lute

Both Robert Elsie and I are delighted that our translation of Gjergj Fishta's Lahuta e Malcis (the Albanian national epic) has emerged into the light of day, and that it will receive exposure to a worldwide readership. We worked hard on it, line by line, and are pleased with how The Highland Lute sounds in English. The epic poem contains 15,613 lines. It mirrors Albania’s difficult struggle for freedom and independence which was finally achieved in 1912. It was important for us to achieve an atmosphere similar to that of other important European epics such as Beowulf (England), The Kalevala (Finland), and the grand medieval poems of the eleventh and twelfth centuries such as The Song of Roland (France), Nibelungenlied (Germany), and Poem of the Cid (Spain). Rhythmically, The Highland Lute is very much like the American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, Hiawatha, parts of which I loved to recite as a young girl.