Eingeschneit: Eine Studentengeschichte — John Shaqi
Eingeschneit: Eine StudentengeschichteFrommel, Emil
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Eingeschneit: Eine Studentengeschichte
Frommel, Emil
Austria -- Fiction; German language -- Readers -- English; Travelers -- Fiction
5-12. {ich =muß fort=}. The infinitive of a verb of motion, as {gehen}
or {reisen}, being implied, an idiom often met with after the modal
auxiliaries {müssen, können, sollen, wollen, dürfen}, and sometimes
after {lassen}.
=Page 6.=--6-1. {unsern =gnädigen= Herrn;} the adj. expresses
submission, trans. perhaps: _our most honorable judge_.
6-2. {=der himmelblaue Postillon=}. In the era of stage-coaches, the
_drivers of hackneys_ on the royal post-lines of Bavaria wore _light
blue_ uniforms.
6-3. {=allerseits=}, _to each and every one of the party_, a
stereotyped phrase used without discrimination whether there is only
one passenger in the stage or more.
6-4. {=Stutt´gart=}, capital of Württemberg, one of the three states
of Southern Germany.
6-5. {=wer ... dem=} (nominat. {der}), correlat. pron., _to any one
who ..._
6-6. {=denen=} (emphat.) = {denjenigen}, _those_.
6-7. {=wenn=} (indef.), expressing repeated action (= {so oft als}),
_when, whenever_.
6-8. {aus =den= Augen} cf. Page 4, Note 10.
6-9. {=dem Schulszepter=}, cf. Page 3, Note 7.
6-10. {=wären=} (condit. subj.) {=gereist=} for conditional {würden
... gereist sein}.
6-11. {=wenn=}, cf. Note 7, above.
=Page 7.=--7-1. {=es=} (indef.), trans. perhaps: _an expression of
happiness_, or _a gleam of joy_.
7-2. {=dächte=}, cf. Page 5, Note 6.
7-3. {=einem=} (emphat.[E-5]), cf. Page 1. Note 8.
7-4. das {=Salz´kammergut=} (lit. “Saltexchequer Property,” from its
rich salt-springs and mines), one of the most picturesque districts of
Europe (“The Austrian Switzerland”), lies between the Austrian
crown-lands of Salzburg on the West, and Styria on the East.
7-5. {=die Tauern=} or {die hohen Tauern}, a lofty mountain-range in
Tyrol and on the borders of Salzburg and Carinthia, forming the
easternmost division of the Alps.
7-6. {=Kärnthen=}, _Carinthia_, a crown-land of the Austrian empire;
the capital is Klagenfurt.
7-7. {=wollten zurück=}, cf. Page 5, Note 12.
7-8. {=Werfen--Lend=}, two villages on the old post-road from Salzburg
to Gastein, since 1875 stations on the Salzburg-Tyrol Railroad
(“Gisela R. R.”).
7-9. {=so=} (emphat.) = {dergestalt, in einer solchen Weise}.
7-10. {=das=} (emphat. = {dies, dieses}) refers back to the words
{„die Studenten waren ... bekannt geworden.“}
7-11. {=der eine=} (idiom.), _one of them_.
7-12. {wer ... =wohl=} (adverb idiom.), _I wonder_ who ...
7-13. {=ward=}, obsolescent for {wurde}.
7-14. {=bei seiner Flatterhaftigkeit=}. Note the pun.
=Page 8.=--8-1. ({mir wird wohl} =) {=es= wird mir wohl} or {=es= wird
mir wohl zu Mut}, _I_ (begin to) _feel happy_; cf. Page 4, Note 2.
8-2. {=was=} (colloq. and in poetry) for {etwas}.
8-3. {=fehlgetroffen=}, _p.p._ (lit., missed the mark), the
perf. partic. used elliptically in exclamations, trans.: _entirely
mistaken!_ or _quite out!_
8-4. {=Ihr=} (as pers. pron. of address used in earlier language and
in poetry) = modern {Sie}; {=Herr´n=}, _pl._ = {Herren, meine Herren!}
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