Why do we really need a new edition of the Avesta?
Why do we really need a new edition of the Avesta?
Why do we really need a new edition of the Avesta?
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Geldner about Westergaard’s <strong>edition</strong><br />
(Prolegomena, i):<br />
I may say at once that he succeeded<br />
marvellously in accomplishing <strong>the</strong> most<br />
difficult task, an editio princeps <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Avesta</strong>.<br />
So admirably did Westergaard work through<br />
<strong>the</strong> manuscripts known to him, and so model<br />
<strong>the</strong> text he provided, that without entirely<br />
<strong>new</strong> material, <strong>the</strong>re would have remained<br />
little or nothing for me to <strong>do</strong>. A re-reading<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> texts extant in Europe, I found, promised<br />
but little fruit.