SC - Lard
Elysant@aol.com
Elysant at aol.com
Wed May 17 20:05:52 PDT 2000
Thomas!!!
Welcome back!!!!
Your translation beat mine. I wouldn't have attempted
it if I had known you had resubscribed. I guess I blew
the translation for the last verse. Sigh.
I do have to ask this ... why lime tree and not linden
tree? I thought that lime was "linde" and linden was
"linden".
Huette
- --- Thomas Gloning <gloning at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
wrote:
> It is an old German folk song. Roughly:
>
> > Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, da steht ein Lindenbaum.
> Near the well before the door, stands a lime-tree
>
> > Ich träumt' in seinem Schatten so manchen süßen
> Traum.
> I dreamt in its shadow many a sweet dream
>
> > Ich schnitt in seine Rinde so manches liebe Wort.
> I cut into its bark many a dear word/beloved
> word/word of love
>
> > Es zog in Freud' und Leide zu ihm mich immerfort.
> In good and bad days I was always torn back to
> this tree
> (the tree being a symbol for the "Heimat", the
> 'home')
>
> My grandmother often sang this song, when she ...
> No. Back to the
> "Recueil de Riom" with its recipes for "soppe
> jacopine", "broet de
> savoie", ---
>
> Thomas
>
>
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