Eingeschneit: Eine StudentengeschichteFrommel, Emil
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Eingeschneit: Eine Studentengeschichte
Frommel, Emil
Austria -- Fiction; German language -- Readers -- English; Travelers -- Fiction
16-8. {=am aufgeräumtesten=}, special form of the superlative, used
predicatively, _the merriest of all_.
16-9. {=es=} (introductory subject, the logical subject following
after the verb), {=möchten doch die Studenten= = die Studenten möchten
doch ...}
=Page 17.=--17-1. {=sich=}. Account for the idiom. Cf. Page 16, Note
7.
17-2. {=mein Herr=}, i.e. {der Herr, dessen Führer ich bin}, _my
employer_.
17-3. {=der giebt sonst keinen Laut von sich=}--said with reference to
the Assessor’s attitude while crossing the glacier.
17-4. {sich =fände=} (condit. subj.), for conditional.--Account for
the refl. form.
17-5. {=es= waren ... Lieder}, cf. Page 16, Note 9.
17-6. {=mir ist= lieb} ({=lieber=, am liebsten}), phrase: I like (_I
like better_, I like best).
17-7. {=soll leben!=}(Lat.: VIVAT! French: VIVE!) a toast: _Here’s to
..._ or _To the health of ..._ or _... forever!_
17-8. {=der=} (emphat.), = {dieser; der letztere; er}.
17-9. {=nichts=} (indef. neuter), for masc. and femin., {keiner,
keine} or {niemand}, _no one; nobody_.
=Page 18.=--18-1. An invocation for help to =Saint Florian=, the
patron-saint of those in danger of fire, here humorously uttered on
the approach of the red-haired valet of the Englishman.--St. Florian
(190-230 A.D.) was a German soldier in the Roman army and for being a
Christian was martyred by drowning in the river Enns (Austria) under
Emperor Diocletian.
18-2. {=zünd’t= = zündet}. The subject ({er} or {der Mann} or {der
Kerl hier}) to be understood.
18-3. {=Balan´ce=}, pronounce as in French.
18-4. Correct the Englishman’s faulty German.
18-5. {=behag´te=} (subj. impf.), for conditional {behagen würde} or
{sollte}.
18-6. {=woher´ des Landes, woher der Männer?=} The German translation
of the first half of the Greek hexameter: τίς πόθεν εἶς ἀνδρῶν;
πόθι τοι πόλις ἠδὲ τοκῆες; so frequently occurring in Homer:
„_Who art thou? And of what race of men? And where thy
home?_“--(William Cullen Bryant.)
18-7. {=sei=}--mood? why? State the question directly.
18-8. {=konnten= nicht weiter}. Account for the idiom. Cf. Page 5,
Note 12.
=Page 19.=--19-1. The second and third stanzas run thus:
{Dort an dem Klippenhang, 2.
Robin Adair!
Rief ich oft still und bang:
„Robin Adair!
Fort von dem wilden Meer!
Falsch ist es, liebeleer.
Macht nur das Herze schwer.
Robin Adair!“
Mancher wohl warb um mich, 3.
Robin Adair!
Treu aber liebt’ ich dich,
Robin Adair!
Mögen sie and’re frei’n,
Ich will nur dir allein
Leben und Liebe weih’n,
Robin Adair!}
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