A keresés eredménye

My Mother Told Me

Versions: #1
My mother once told me,
that myself I shall buy
a ship and steady oars,
to sail afar with the Vikings,
to stand up at the prow,
steer the noble vessel,
set course out to the sea,
slay one man and another,
slay one man and another.
 
The rasp strikes before the prow
of the vessel on its smooth path
with a chisel of hail,
wicked enemy of the tree,
and that of the cold-made willow
files mercilessly
Gestil1's swan2 with wind-gusts
on the ornamented ship's prow.
 

• 1. Gestill is a Norse king of the sea
• 2. metaphor for ship

This told me my mother

Versions: #2
This told me my mother
that I shall buy for myself
a swift ship and with pretty oars,
to journey away with freebooters,
to stand tall on the prow,
steer a worthy merchant-ship,
direct it thus to the harbour,
strike one man and the other,
strike one man and the other.
 
With the file he strikes out, hard against the steel
of the prow-steed on the flat path,
with the chisel of the snowstorms,
the opposite-oared giant of the twig,
but the cold-made one of that willow,
the merciless one files
Gestill's swan with gusts,
this wand of steel against the ship's beak.
 
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