Poety to translate?

[thiudans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Guenther Ramm <ualarauans at ...> wrote:

Hails!

Nice translation & alliteration!
No grammar comments now.
I like flower-fly, nice invention.
The first line has many syllables so I will offer a shorter one for
possibility of longer notes:

>   O *blomafliugo waliso, thuei windaleiko ufaro airthai nu rinnis

O *fifaldo waliso, (hwaiwa) theinamma winda-staigon galeiko

"how like that wind-road (you ride)". I thought riding is implicit in
"road" perhaps.

If Grail shall be a borrowing = Gradéls-. Else, the attested word
Stikls will do fine.



cheers,
The Moderator





 
> Hails, *Garazdans!
>   Would you mind another translation attempt? Not always a
word-for-word one, of cause, but instead I tried to "reconstruct" here
and there some of alliterative rhyme. All those clumsy "neologisms"
are mine (just slapdash invented and without any claim to get into the
waurdahuzd).
>   By the way, I would be very thankful for every hint about what
Gothic "butterfly" or rather "Grail" be like.
>    
>   BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE: Oh sweet butterfly, so like the wind you
>   ride, to catch you is to know you but in this all I do is still
>   you and hold you captive, butterflies are free, to know the
>   currents of wind, to fly afar, never to be held by mortal
>   hands. For in the holding is the tragedy, for what are dreams
>   held but never let free.
>    
>    
>   O *blomafliugo waliso, thuei windaleiko ufaro airthai nu rinnis
>   Ibai sa fahands thuk frathjan duginnith
>   Hva maht ist haldis nibai hafta thuk fastan
>   Frijos sind *fliugons, thozei fairrathro brahtedun
>   Windos thai waiandans fram waihstam this midjungardis
>   Ni du fragiban thos gumane handum 
>   Wai thamma wiljandin winda gatamjan
>   Draum faurdammjan in daubithos hairtins
>    
>   Looking forward a scornful sneer of connoisseurs
>    
> Ualarauans
> 
> Michael Adams <abrigon at ...> wrote:  I am learning to ask first, so I
do not waste peoples bandwidth
> to much..
> 
> Here goes: (two or more)
> 
> BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE: Oh sweet butterfly, so like the wind you
> ride, to catch you is to know you but in this all I do is still
> you and hold you captive, butterflies are free, to know the
> currents of wind, to fly afar, never to be held by mortal
> hands. For in the holding is the tragedy, for what are dreams
> held but never let free.
> 
> THE GRAIL: I seem to ramble from place to place, never staying
> one in any one place, ever searching, like a knight on quest,
> for that grail oh so dear, so close but oh so far, almost in
> sight, but never visible, I go on and on, until the end is here,
> and it draws near, and I can hear the calls of angels sweet, and
> I shall finally drink of that cup, so rich and rare a draught it
> shall be, for in the end, the cup will hold life, and life is so
> sweet, and to know this, I quest.
> 
> VASHTI OF THE FLAME RED TRESSES: Oh my dearest lady mine, for
> your passing has emptied my heart, but the memories of you will
> be with me forever. The joy we felt in our youth, the times we
> spent in our middle years. The things we did here, there and
> all. Friends we made,  times we spent, even when angry we did it
> in love. How the feeling I do feel at your passing, for you my
> lady of hair so red was me, and I you, a half has gone away and
> left me with feelings of what now, not to replace but the
> feeling of what now? Who can I turn to when I need love,
> carrying, a gentle hand a soft caress, to be told I was wrong
> and the love to show me gently. To be there for me, and I for
> you. Bye my dear lady of flaming hair that lighted up the
> darkness of my life, for before you there was darkness and now
> what? Farewell my dear until that day with Gods/fates grace I
> can join you once again, to walk hand in hand, arm in arm,
> carress to carress, feel to feel and knowing we will be together
> always..
> 
> Mike Adams
> 
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