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Christian Morgenstern * Der Werwolf German Arg-1652-825 2013-02-11 18:44 Manfred only this add
Sven Collberg Varulven Swedish Arg-1654-825 2013-02-13 17:00 Manfred only this add
Alexander Gross The Werewolf English Arg-1657-825 2013-02-13 18:39 Manfred only this remove
Hans Eiseneck El Hechicero hispana Arg-1656-825 2013-02-13 18:46 Manfred only this remove
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
Bertilo Wennergren La lupfantomo Esperanto Arg-1653-825 2013-02-14 23:29 Manfred only this add

Christian Morgenstern,
The Banshee (An Approach)

 

Christian Morgenstern,
The Werewolf

 

Christian Morgenstern,
El Hechicero

 
translated by Max Knight   translated by Alexander Gross   translated by Hans Eiseneck
 
One night, a banshee slunk away   A Werewolf, troubled by his name,   Un hechicero, con esposa
from mate and child, and in the gloom   Left wife and brood one night and came   vino un día a la fosa
went to a village teacher’s tomb,   To a hidden graveyard to enlist   de su maestro, y al profesor
requesting him: “Inflect me, pray.”   The aid of a long-dead philologist.   pidió: “¿Me cuentas? ¡Por favor!”
 
The village teacher climbed up straight   “Oh sage, wake up, please don’t berate me,”   El profesor sin vacilar
upon his grave stone with its plate   He howled sadly, “Just conjugate me.”   subió y comenzó a hablar.
and to the apparition said   The seer arose a bit unsteady   Desde allá de su letrero
who meekly knelt before the dead:   Yawned twice, wheezed once, and then was ready.   se dirigió al hechicero:
 
“The banSHEE, in the subject’s place;   “Well, ‘Werewolf’ is your plural past,   “El hechiuno” le explica,
the banHERS, the possessive case.   While ‘Waswolf’ is singularly cast:   “el hechidos” después indica,
The banHER, next, is what they call   There’s ‘Amwolf’ too, the present tense,   “el hechitres” dice al fin,
objective case--and that is all.”   And ‘Iswolf,’ ‘Arewolf’ in this same sense.”   “con eso basta ¡chiquitín!”
 
The banshee marveled at the cases   “I know that--I’m no mental cripple--   El hechicero, conmovido
and writhed with pleasure, making faces,   The future form and participle   por lo que capta su oído,
but said: “You did not add, so far,   Are what I crave,” the beast replied.   al maestro ruega, encantado,
the plural to the singular!”   The scholar paused--again he tried:   que le adjunte un quebrado.
 
The teacher, though, admitted then   “A ‘Will-be-wolf?’ It’s just too long:   Pero el profesor confiesa
that this was not within his ken.   ‘Shall-be-wolf?’ ‘Has-been-wolf?’ Utterly wrong!   que nada sabe con certeza:
“While bans are frequent”, he advised,   Such words are wounds beyond all suture--   “Hay muchos hechos. Hechiceros
“A she cannot be plurized.”   I’m sorry, but you have no future.”   únicamente hay enteros.”
 
The banshee, rising clammily,   The Werewolf knew better--his sons still slept   El brujo se volvió muy triste:
wailed: “What about my family?”   At home, and homewards now he crept,   “Mi cara mitad, ¿no la viste?”
Then, being not a learned creature,   Happy, humble, without apology   Ya que no era sabio
said humbly “Thanks” and left the teacher.   For such folly of philology.   con gratitud se despidió.
 
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
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  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.
  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.