Re: Small translation exercise

* Mark J. Reed said on 2005-11-03 15:24:04 +0100
>
>    On  11/3/05,  taliesin  the  storyteller <[1]taliesin-conlang@...>
>    wrote:
>
>    > The fog comes
>    > on little cat feet.
>    > It sits looking
>    > over harbor and city
>    > on silent haunches
>    > and then moves on.
>    >
>    > I had never seen this poem before
>
>    Shocking!   What  allegedly-educational  system  let  you pass through
>    without exposing you to Sandburg?  We'll form a lynch mob at once!
>    Next  you'll  say  that you didn't read any cummings, or Dickinson, or
>    Tennyson, or Wordsworth, or . . .
I'm not a WASP and I do not have English on the university-level, only
high school. I've read Dickinson on my own though. (And Shakespeare,
love the sonnets...)

I have read large parts of the Eddas, Håvamål, Voluspå, Ibsen, Bjørnson,
a bit of Kielland and Lie, lots of sagas, a bit of Strindberg etc. etc.

It's getting colder here again (very weird fall so far, too hot), so the
following is appropriate:

    Eldz er þa/rf
    þeims inn er kominn
    oc a kne kalinn;
    matar oc vaða
    er manne þa/rf
    þeim er hefir vm fiall fariþ.

Learnt this 'un first in grade school, though in a rather more modern
version. Anyway, the entirety of Håvamål would be a useful
translation-exercise, as there are mostly high-frequent words one needs
translations for anyway in it.


t., who haven't really read much Norwegian since high school :/

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