Naeng/Texts: Difference between revisions

← Older edit

Naeng/Texts (view source)

Revision as of 19:07, 18 March 2024

147 bytes added , 18 March

m

→‎Dșüłăf's song

IlL

138,726

edits

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-Fantasy author [[Verse:Tricin/Srăga Tsayfuan|Srăga Tsayfuan]] used a variety of meters for the poetry in his novels to express the songs sung by the various races.
+Fantasy author [[Verse:Hmøøh/Srănga Tsayfuan|Srănga Tsayfuan]] used a variety of meters for the poetry in his novels for the songs sung by the various races in their native languages. He uses them in Windermere translation too. For example, Tsăyfuan uses Imthumitil-style rhyming prose for the holy inscrutable angels of the higher realms and Netagin quantitative meters for the Dwarves. He uses the alexandrine and other "Classical" meters to render Elven poetry.
-== From an Elven poem ==
-Tsăyfuan uses Imthumitil-style rhyming prose for the holy inscrutable angels of the higher realms and Netagin quantitative meters for the dwarves. He uses the alexandrine and other "Classical" meters to render Elvish poetry:
+== Dsüłăff's song ==
+(Poem originally by Praimhín, I fit it to Alexandrine)
+TODO: Add one stanza before this one
 <poem>
-'''''Mi seaf imfnüd se doach, mi tsmüng ăbüch mosrel,'''''
+''Mi seaf imfnüd se doach, mi tsmüng ăbüch mosrel,''
-'''''Tes tsor hălpduth șăm'it — wăha, chnet fa mi yem!'''''
+''Tes tsor hălpduth șăm'it — wăha, chnet fa mi yem!''
-'''''Rănoat ef loc Dămath, dicleap yaf imhăcwel;'''''
+''Rănoat ef loc Dămath, dicleap yaf imhăcwel;''
-'''''Doar bang, yăsnar, tămnüth, mi sngom se chwep păhem.'''''
+''Doar bang, yăfnga, tămnüth, mi sngom se chwep păhem.''
-'''''— faf chnur Dsüłăff'''''
+''— faf chnur Dsüłăff''
 Gloss:
@@ Line 17: / Line 21: @@
 Paraphrase:
 ''As summer days trudge on, we meet the winter soil,''
-''And all hope comes to naught — but for a distant ray!''
+''And all hope comes to naught — and yet, a distant ray!''
 ''Let Fortune turn her wheel, oblivious to our toil;''
-''With skill we persevere and seek the light of day.''
+''By skill we persevere and seek the light of day.''
 ''— from Dzüłəf's Song''
 </poem>
@@ Line 35: / Line 39: @@
 Overwhelming are the tasks, bitter is the load!
 My only breather is a spirit with ''chruș'' (a a flavoring agent) from the branches,
-Splendid and full and always trusty!
+Splendid and full and never disappointing!
 </poem>