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Mar. 21st, 2014 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreSo, I am starting a project. I love Icelandic sagas and I love audiobooks but, alas, these two loves are not often found combined. So I am making my own. I'm starting with the Volsungasaga because a) it's short, b) I have a copy, and c) it is awesome. (There is an audiobook available of the Volsungasaga but I don't much care for the translation they used or the way the narrator handles footnotes.) If all goes well, I'm planning to eventually record other sagas - I'd love to do Njal's saga, for example.
I mention this because I wondered if any of you out there in internetland would also be interested in audiobooks of sagas and thus want to listen to my recordings. I can't promise that my pronunciation of all the names will be exactly correct but, beyond that, I read aloud well, though I say it myself. 8) I have a fairly pleasing voice, I think, with a close-to-standard US accent (if that matters) and I don't do character voices. I also won't be including footnotes. If people are interested in listening to me read sagas, they would probably be uploaded in chunks between 15 and 30 minutes long, whenever I get one done and I'm happy with it, probably at least once a week. I'm using Jesse Byock's translation.
So. Anyone interested?
I mention this because I wondered if any of you out there in internetland would also be interested in audiobooks of sagas and thus want to listen to my recordings. I can't promise that my pronunciation of all the names will be exactly correct but, beyond that, I read aloud well, though I say it myself. 8) I have a fairly pleasing voice, I think, with a close-to-standard US accent (if that matters) and I don't do character voices. I also won't be including footnotes. If people are interested in listening to me read sagas, they would probably be uploaded in chunks between 15 and 30 minutes long, whenever I get one done and I'm happy with it, probably at least once a week. I'm using Jesse Byock's translation.
So. Anyone interested?
