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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 add
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 remove

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

translated by Sven Collberg	translated by Max Knight		translated by Alexander Gross

En varulv lopp från fru m.m.	One night, a banshee slunk away	Ein Werwolf eines Nachts entwich	A Werewolf, troubled by his name,
en vacker afton samt begav	from mate and child, and in the gloom	von Weib und Kind und sich begab	Left wife and brood one night and came
sig till en bymagisters grav	went to a village teacher’s tomb,	an eines Dorfschullehrers Grab	To a hidden graveyard to enlist
och bad: “Var snäll och konjugera.	requesting him: “Inflect me, pray.”	und bat ihn: „Bitte, beuge mich!“	The aid of a long-dead philologist.

mig!” Byskolläraren stod upp	The village teacher climbed up straight	Der Dorfschulmeister stieg hinauf	“Oh sage, wake up, please don’t berate me,”
på blecknamnsskyltens mässingknopp	upon his grave stone with its plate	auf seines Blechschilds Messingknauf	He howled sadly, “Just conjugate me.”
med svar till den, som satt på pass	and to the apparition said	und sprach zum Wolf, der seine Pfoten	The seer arose a bit unsteady
med tåligt korslagd tass på tass.	who meekly knelt before the dead:	geduldig kreuzte vor dem Toten:	Yawned twice, wheezed once, and then was ready.

“Jag var-ulv 1:a pers. i sing.,	“The banSHEE, in the subject’s place;	„Der Werwolf“ – sprach der gute Mann,	“Well, ‘Werewolf’ is your plural past,
du, han, hon, den, det var-ulv. Så	the banHERS, the possessive case.	„des Werwolfs, Genitiv sodann,	While ‘Waswolf’ is singularly cast:
vi voro-ulv, I voren. På	The banHER, next, is what they call	dem Werwolf, Dativ, wie man’s nennt,	There’s ‘Amwolf’ too, the present tense,
de voro-ulv kom ingenting.”	objective case--and that is all.”	den Werwolf, - damit hat’s ein End!“	And ‘Iswolf,’ ‘Arewolf’ in this same sense.”

Varulven myste glad åt hur	The banshee marveled at the cases	Dem Werwolf schmeichelten die Fälle	“I know that--I’m no mental cripple--
pers. hade följts av sing. och plur.	and writhed with pleasure, making faces,	er rollte seine Augenbälle.	The future form and participle
“Fast”, bad han, “kan det inte ges ens	but said: “You did not add, so far,	„Indessen“, bat er, „füge doch	Are what I crave,” the beast replied.
en enda pers. i tempus presens?”	the plural to the singular!”	zur Einzahl auch die Mehrzahl noch!“	The scholar paused--again he tried:

Bekänna måste vår magister,	The teacher, though, admitted then	Der Dorfschullehrer aber musste	“A ‘Will-be-wolf?’ It’s just too long:
att därvidlag fanns vissa brister.	that this was not within his ken.	gestehn, dass er von ihr nichts wusste.	‘Shall-be-wolf?’ ‘Has-been-wolf?’ Utterly wrong!
En varulv sine imperfecto	“While bans are frequent”, he advised,	Zwar Wölfe gab’s in großer Schar,	Such words are wounds beyond all suture--
var contradictio in adjecto.	“A she cannot be plurized.”	doch „Wer“ gab’s nur im Sinular.	I’m sorry, but you have no future.”

Varulven satt med tårad lins.	The banshee, rising clammily,	Der Wolf erhob sich tränenblind –	The Werewolf knew better--his sons still slept
Han visste att han fanns och finns.	wailed: “What about my family?”	er hatte ja doch Weib und Kind!	At home, and homewards now he crept,
Därtill kom också fru m.m.	Then, being not a learned creature,	Doch da er keine Gelehrter eben,	Happy, humble, without apology
som även måste existera.	said humbly “Thanks” and left the teacher.	so schied er dankend und ergeben.	For such folly of philology.

Translation of the German poem "Der Werwolf" by Christian Morgenstern (Kristiano Matenstelo, *1871-05-06 - †1914-03-31) into Swedish by Sven Collberg. Tiu ĉi francigo troviĝas ne la reterjo http://bertilow.com/literaturo/lupfantomo.html#sv.	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.	Author of this German poem is Christian Morgenstern (Kristiano Matenstelo, *1871-05-06 - †1914-03-31).	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.

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