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author [first name]	title	language	id code	last modification	view
Christian Morgenstern	* Der Werwolf	German	Arg-1652-825	2013-02-11 18:44 Manfred	only this remove
Hans Eiseneck	El Hechicero	hispana	Arg-1656-825	2013-02-13 18:46 Manfred	only this remove
Bertilo Wennergren	La lupfantomo	Esperanto	Arg-1653-825	2013-02-14 23:29 Manfred	only this add
R. Platteau	Le loup-garou	French	Arg-1655-825	2013-02-13 21:56 Manfred	only this add
Max Knight	The Banshee (An Approach)	English	Arg-1660-825	2013-02-13 22:36 Manfred	only this remove
Alexander Gross	The Werewolf	English	Arg-1657-825	2013-02-13 18:39 Manfred	only this remove
Sven Collberg	Varulven	Swedish	Arg-1654-825	2013-02-13 17:00 Manfred	only this add

Christian Morgenstern, The Banshee (An Approach)	Christian Morgenstern, El Hechicero	Christian Morgenstern, The Werewolf	Christian Morgenstern, Der Werwolf

translated by Max Knight	translated by Hans Eiseneck	translated by Alexander Gross

One night, a banshee slunk away	Un hechicero, con esposa	A Werewolf, troubled by his name,	Ein Werwolf eines Nachts entwich
from mate and child, and in the gloom	vino un día a la fosa	Left wife and brood one night and came	von Weib und Kind und sich begab
went to a village teacher’s tomb,	de su maestro, y al profesor	To a hidden graveyard to enlist	an eines Dorfschullehrers Grab
requesting him: “Inflect me, pray.”	pidió: “¿Me cuentas? ¡Por favor!”	The aid of a long-dead philologist.	und bat ihn: „Bitte, beuge mich!“

The village teacher climbed up straight	El profesor sin vacilar	“Oh sage, wake up, please don’t berate me,”	Der Dorfschulmeister stieg hinauf
upon his grave stone with its plate	subió y comenzó a hablar.	He howled sadly, “Just conjugate me.”	auf seines Blechschilds Messingknauf
and to the apparition said	Desde allá de su letrero	The seer arose a bit unsteady	und sprach zum Wolf, der seine Pfoten
who meekly knelt before the dead:	se dirigió al hechicero:	Yawned twice, wheezed once, and then was ready.	geduldig kreuzte vor dem Toten:

“The banSHEE, in the subject’s place;	“El hechiuno” le explica,	“Well, ‘Werewolf’ is your plural past,	„Der Werwolf“ – sprach der gute Mann,
the banHERS, the possessive case.	“el hechidos” después indica,	While ‘Waswolf’ is singularly cast:	„des Werwolfs, Genitiv sodann,
The banHER, next, is what they call	“el hechitres” dice al fin,	There’s ‘Amwolf’ too, the present tense,	dem Werwolf, Dativ, wie man’s nennt,
objective case--and that is all.”	“con eso basta ¡chiquitín!”	And ‘Iswolf,’ ‘Arewolf’ in this same sense.”	den Werwolf, - damit hat’s ein End!“

The banshee marveled at the cases	El hechicero, conmovido	“I know that--I’m no mental cripple--	Dem Werwolf schmeichelten die Fälle
and writhed with pleasure, making faces,	por lo que capta su oído,	The future form and participle	er rollte seine Augenbälle.
but said: “You did not add, so far,	al maestro ruega, encantado,	Are what I crave,” the beast replied.	„Indessen“, bat er, „füge doch
the plural to the singular!”	que le adjunte un quebrado.	The scholar paused--again he tried:	zur Einzahl auch die Mehrzahl noch!“

The teacher, though, admitted then	Pero el profesor confiesa	“A ‘Will-be-wolf?’ It’s just too long:	Der Dorfschullehrer aber musste
that this was not within his ken.	que nada sabe con certeza:	‘Shall-be-wolf?’ ‘Has-been-wolf?’ Utterly wrong!	gestehn, dass er von ihr nichts wusste.
“While bans are frequent”, he advised,	“Hay muchos hechos. Hechiceros	Such words are wounds beyond all suture--	Zwar Wölfe gab’s in großer Schar,
“A she cannot be plurized.”	únicamente hay enteros.”	I’m sorry, but you have no future.”	doch „Wer“ gab’s nur im Sinular.

The banshee, rising clammily,	El brujo se volvió muy triste:	The Werewolf knew better--his sons still slept	Der Wolf erhob sich tränenblind –
wailed: “What about my family?”	“Mi cara mitad, ¿no la viste?”	At home, and homewards now he crept,	er hatte ja doch Weib und Kind!
Then, being not a learned creature,	Ya que no era sabio	Happy, humble, without apology	Doch da er keine Gelehrter eben,
said humbly “Thanks” and left the teacher.	con gratitud se despidió.	For such folly of philology.	so schied er dankend und ergeben.

Translation of the German poem "Der Werwolf" by Christian Morgenstern (Kristiano Matenstelo, 1871-05-06 - †1914-03-31) into English by Max Knight (civila nomo: Max Kühnel, 1909-06-08 - †1993-08-31). Tiu ĉi angligo troviĝas en http://bertilow.com/literaturo/lupfantomo.html. Pri la tradukinto Max Knight vidu: http://www.jbeilharz.de/morgenstern/morgenstern_poems.html kaj http://www.123people.de/ext/frm?ti= ersonensuche%20telefonbuch&search_term=m x%20k%C3%BChnel&search_country=DE&st=suc e%20nach%20personen&target_url=aHR0cDovL d3dy5saXRlcmF0dXJoYXVzLmF0L2luZGV4LnBocD9pZD02ODc4.	Translation of the German poem "Der Werwolf" by Christian Morgenstern (Kristiano Matenstelo, *1871-05-06 - †1914-03-31) into hispana by Hans Eiseneck. Tiu ĉi trsduko en la kastilian lingvon troviĝas en http://bertilow.com/literaturo/lupfantomo.html.	Translation of the German poem "Der Werwolf" by Christian Morgenstern (Kristiano Matenstelo, *1871-05-06 - †1914-03-31) into English by Alexander Gross. Tiu ĉi angligo troviĝas en http://bertilow.com/literaturo/lupfantomo.html.	Author of this German poem is Christian Morgenstern (Kristiano Matenstelo, *1871-05-06 - †1914-03-31).

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