I just read the Avesta translated by Friedrich Spiegel. It was interesting to read, but later I read somewhere from Orientalists that his translation is total bullcrap.

I kinda find it sad that unlike Illias or maybe Gilgamesh you don't get access to the Avesta for Western people. Sure, I have the Gatha in a modern and hopefully 100 % validate translation, but the avesta...no.

Can somebody help me to find a good translation of the (Zend-) Avesta (with maybe a historical, etymological and philologian glossary)?

Sure,we have this page:
http://www.avesta.org

But I am not really eager to read the whole page on my onscreen.It's not healthy, and I'D forget the half I read.

Besides, I really like them to add in my little book shelter. I already have the Shahnameh(from Penguin Classics since Germans are lazy duds), the garden of roses, the Persian letters and (liek I said) the gatha. Now just the Avesta and my Persian bookcollection is complete .

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