Post #1801088
2026-04-30 07:16 UTC
It seems that for more than a hundred years, no one noticed that the Icelandic "translation" of Bram Stoker's »Dracula« was basically fan fiction. 😄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Darkness_(Iceland)
#TIL #Literature #Dracula
Replies (4)
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@kyonshi@dice.camp 2026-04-30 07:37
@esureL not really fanfiction, but rather an earlier draft of the novel. It seems some parts are in there that had been in Stoker's drafts but which were removed in the finished English version. Well. And there was the usual translate from a translation and "oh let's change this for my local audience" going on that was rather common in older translations.
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@Gailetagilearen_Alaba@mastodon.eus 2026-04-30 08:25
@esureL The translator completely changed the novel, but apparently Stoker was ok with it
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social 2026-04-30 10:39
@esureL That is just so unbelievably cool! @joe_vinegar
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@peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv 2026-04-30 11:03
@esureL tbh this was a norm. Translations were done by writers those days and sometimes inspiration took over.