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| author [first name] | title | language | publication | id code | last modification | view |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Max Knight | The Banshee (An Approach) | English | Arg-1660-825 | 2013-02-13 22:36 Manfred | only this remove | |
| R. Platteau | Le loup-garou | French | Arg-1655-825 | 2013-02-13 21:56 Manfred | only this add | |
| Bertilo Wennergren | La lupfantomo | Esperanto | Arg-1653-825 | 2013-02-14 23:29 Manfred | only this add | |
| Hans Eiseneck | El Hechicero | hispana | Arg-1656-825 | 2013-02-13 18:46 Manfred | only this add | |
| Christian Morgenstern | * Der Werwolf | German | Arg-1652-825 | 2013-02-11 18:44 Manfred | only this add |
Christian Morgenstern, | Christian Morgenstern, | |
| translated by Max Knight | translated by Alexander Gross | |
| One night, a banshee slunk away | A Werewolf, troubled by his name, | |
| from mate and child, and in the gloom | Left wife and brood one night and came | |
| went to a village teacher’s tomb, | To a hidden graveyard to enlist | |
| requesting him: “Inflect me, pray.” | The aid of a long-dead philologist. | |
| The village teacher climbed up straight | “Oh sage, wake up, please don’t berate me,” | |
| upon his grave stone with its plate | He howled sadly, “Just conjugate me.” | |
| and to the apparition said | The seer arose a bit unsteady | |
| who meekly knelt before the dead: | Yawned twice, wheezed once, and then was ready. | |
| “The banSHEE, in the subject’s place; | “Well, ‘Werewolf’ is your plural past, | |
| the banHERS, the possessive case. | While ‘Waswolf’ is singularly cast: | |
| The banHER, next, is what they call | There’s ‘Amwolf’ too, the present tense, | |
| objective case--and that is all.” | And ‘Iswolf,’ ‘Arewolf’ in this same sense.” | |
| The banshee marveled at the cases | “I know that--I’m no mental cripple-- | |
| and writhed with pleasure, making faces, | The future form and participle | |
| but said: “You did not add, so far, | Are what I crave,” the beast replied. | |
| the plural to the singular!” | The scholar paused--again he tried: | |
| The teacher, though, admitted then | “A ‘Will-be-wolf?’ It’s just too long: | |
| that this was not within his ken. | ‘Shall-be-wolf?’ ‘Has-been-wolf?’ Utterly wrong! | |
| “While bans are frequent”, he advised, | Such words are wounds beyond all suture-- | |
| “A she cannot be plurized.” | I’m sorry, but you have no future.” | |
| The banshee, rising clammily, | The Werewolf knew better--his sons still slept | |
| wailed: “What about my family?” | At home, and homewards now he crept, | |
| Then, being not a learned creature, | Happy, humble, without apology | |
| said humbly “Thanks” and left the teacher. | For such folly of philology. | |
| 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 English by Alexander Gross. Tiu ĉi angligo troviĝas en http://bertilow.com/literaturo/lupfantomo.html. |