Today I will tell you what happens when you overestimate your strength. The story is simple: Zahar and I are translating the next part of \u201cStrange Love Song,\u201d most of which is written in hexameter. And instead of dividing the work normally over several days, they decided to do everything in a hurry: writing hexameters in Retzin is easy, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
So, it turned out that there is nothing like that. Not only is this task in itself quite exhausting and thankless, but the author of the \u201cSong\u201d makes inserts in Hellenic, Folsky and Proto-Rechansky. So what, it would seem? And the fact is that the form of the classical Hellenic hexameter (which the author uses) is based on the alternation not of stressed and unstressed syllables, but of short and long ones. Classic Geartoy does this too, and the other two languages also distinguish between syllable lengths in poetry, so he built them in quite naturally.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Modern Retsinsky can\u2019t do that, that\u2019s the rub. And therefore, the connection of the \u201cRetsin hexameter\u201d with the present raises... some questions and troubles. We eventually figured out how to do this as painlessly as possible; Perhaps we\u2019ll dedicate a separate post to this. In the meantime, stick to the very beginning - what we have already translated.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Helshi sing of warriors - and I sing about the road,
Long and bright, warmed by the yellowest circle of the sun,
Where birds chirp and dew flows slowly through the grass,
The wind rustles here in the leaves and quickly runs away into the distance.
We have heard about peoples living closer to the north,
The sea lay between us and them; deep sea -
Who would be brave? Brave and courageous... so reckless
To swim across it? Hardly from the Djeart tribe
(I know) someone like this would be found; but people are different. And before
It happened that they surprised us. Now - and even more so.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201c\u1f0e\u03c1' \u1f00\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u0392\u03bf\u03c1\u03c1\u1fb6 \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03ad? \u201cYou came from the north, right?\u201d \u2014
My friend asked this to his tall, light-haired husband.
\u201c\u1f18\u03c3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd,\u201d he answered briefly; After a little hesitation, he added:
\u03a6\u03cc\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03b9 \u1f10\u03c3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd. \u039a\u03b1\u03af \u1fec\u03b5\u03c4\u03c3\u1fb1\u03bd\u03bf\u03af,\u201d he shook his head and
He pointed to his brown-haired friends with his hand. Fouls?
The same... rechans? We have never met such names.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I will tell you what happens when you overestimate your strength. The story is simple: Zahar and I are translating the next part of \u201cStrange Love Song,\u201d most of which is written in hexameter. And instead of dividing the work normally over several days, they decided to do everything in a hurry: writing hexameters in Retzin is easy, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
Well, it turned out that there was nothing like that. \u2026<\/p>\n