Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are"

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Post by Paul » Sun May 20, 2018 11:24 am

Well thank's for all gentlemen. My work is going very slowly, becouse unfortunately i don't have much free time for this :( but i translated 95% of the text i need just a couple of month and i also want to publish it.

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Re: Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are

Post by Paul » Sun May 20, 2018 11:45 am

I also need to understand what is the meaning of "grey widow-maker" in this poem?
...And Olaf of Norway
And Erik of Gotland
And Thorwald the Mighty,
Whose grandsire was Wotan,
Stand fast on the poop deck
With golden hair streaming,
With spear brightly glinting,
With eye fierce and blazing,
Sail out on the swan's bath --
The grey widow-maker --
For England or Iceland,
Byzantium, Vinland,
Far land or ancient
And ripe for the plunder,
The burning of roof-trees,
The seizing of women,
The tooting of treasure,
The flowing of red blood,
And wine for the victors.

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Re: Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are

Post by White Man 1 » Sun May 20, 2018 7:24 pm

The Grey Widow-Maker refers to the sea.

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Re: Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are

Post by Paul » Mon May 21, 2018 2:35 am

Thank you White Man, i thouht that it was some sort of kenning for the word ship

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Re: Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are

Post by Paul » Thu May 24, 2018 6:10 am

In the end of chapter #19 "After this the Arabs and Moors were gradually pushed back toward Africa in a series
of bloody wars with their neighbors to the north. Not until 1492 was the reconquest of the
peninsula finally completed. In that year the unbaptized Jews were expelled en masse from
the country they had betrayed eight centuries earlier, and the remaining pockets of Moors
followed them ten years later. The Inquisition, which had been established in 1478, dealt to a
limited extent with the baptized Jews."
What the autor means by "remaining pockets of Moors
followed them ten years later"? Expulsion of the Moriscos? But it started in 1609.

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Re: Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are

Post by Paul » Thu May 31, 2018 4:51 pm

I look forward to your help

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Re: Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are

Post by Paul » Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:16 am

Please don't ignore my question

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Re: Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are

Post by White Man 1 » Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:38 pm

In 1501 Castilian authorities delivered an ultimatum to Granada's Muslims: they could either convert to Christianity or be expelled.

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Re: Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are

Post by Paul » Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:37 am

Thank's a lot! Long and glorious life to you and your descendants White Man!

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Re: Gentlemen i need your help in translation of "Who we are"

Post by Paul » Sun Mar 13, 2022 9:53 am

Finally i did it! That wasn't easy, to publish such a "heretic" book. Many thanks to all good men, who helped me, especially: Cosmotheist, Will Williams, White Man 1
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