Re: New Translation Exercise >>> The Actual Song Lyrics

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Herman Miller wrote:

> And here's another version, I'm not sure where I got it:
>
>         Once upon a time, North Wind and Sun were having an argument
>         about which one was the stronger.  Just at that time, a person
>         wearing a long coat came by.  The two agreed that whichever
>         one was able to make the person take off his coat first was
>         the strongest.
>
>         North Wind then used his strength to blow very hard.  The
>         harder he blew, the harder the person pulled his coat around
>         his body.  North Wind finally saw that he couldn't do it, so
>         he stopped trying.  Then Sun came out and made it really warm,
>         so that the person immediately took his coat off.  North Wind
>         was forced to admit that Sun was stronger than he was.
This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine :)

I'm pretty sure this is the semi-literal back-translation I did when I
made a Vilani translation of NW&S.  It's _not_ what I was actually basing
my translation on originally.

Kenji Schwarz