title: Death on a yellow horse: Rendering of the color term in Revelation 6:8 in Danish Bible translations
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metadata.value: Osipenkova, Maria
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metadata.value: 2024-02-29T09:42:07Z
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metadata.value: 2024-02-29T09:42:07Z
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metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Osipenkova M. Death on a yellow horse: Rendering of the color term in Revelation 6:8 in Danish Bible translations. Scandinavian Philology, 2023, vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 237–252. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.203
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.203
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44972
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metadata.value: The article investigates a case of color usage in Revelation 6:8 and various ways it
  has been translated into Danish. The Greek χλωρός used to describe the horse under the
  fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse is polysemic and thus rather difficult to interpret,
  which resulted in numerous variations among translators. The image of Death on a pale
  horse has become part of the Western cultural heritage, although linguists have argued if
  this equivalent is indeed accurate in terms of color meaning comprised within the original
  lexeme. Fourteen translations, from medieval to modern, allowed to scrutinize some
  particular features of rendering this intricate color term in Danish, rising the main question
  of the study: why do so many Danish translations opt for the chromatic meaning of
  yellow in the given passage? In order to answer that, firstly, all of the translations were
  examined from the point of view of the time they were made, the primary source that the
  works were based upon and the special characteristics of chosen equivalents of χλωρός.
  Secondly, a few external sources were introduced in order to put the issue in a broader
  linguacultural context, such as the language, color symbolism and early Danish church
  art. This approach has helped to determine possible reasons for Death’s horse turning
  yellow, like the influence of German, deadly connotations of the Danish color term gul
  ‘yellow’ when referring to paleness and the bad symbolic reputation of color yellow itself.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 21; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish language
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: color terms
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: χλωρός
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metadata.value: Bible translations
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: semantics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: color symbolism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Death on a yellow horse: Rendering of the color term in Revelation 6:8 in Danish Bible translations
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metadata.value: Article
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