Found this in the school hallways. I don’t know German
That’s the last verse of Goethe’s Erlkönig. There’s a translation here: https://dererlkonig.wordpress.com/translations/ (actually several translations because translating poetry is hard)
Thanks so much for this!!
There is also a cool 4.5 minute animated movie using Schubert’s musical setting of the poem. The translation in the subtitles isn’t so good though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS91p-vmSf0
The Wikipedia article about the poem looks good and has a literal translation:
I’m triggered by the son sitting behind the father.
Fun fact: if you have a smartphone, Google Translate is free and has a camera mode. Wife and I use it all the time when captions aren’t translated (we watch a bit of foreign media).
I have an iPhone, it’s not just on Android.
man, that’s triggering some instense school PTSD flashbacks.
It is a piece of Goethe’s “Erlkönig”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlkönig
Edit: should be noted that whoever wrote it, has either a very very bad handwriting, or made some typos
They’re spelling mistakes when not typed.
Edit: apparently this is really bad google translation.
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0811d5be-daba-4383-bd34-f8eb3b9f2dd1.png
This is so wrong it hurts my soul and I’m pretty indifferent towards poetry.
Thanks, I removed the pic but left the link for context.
Thank you!!
I do hope you saw my other comment because this is a really crude and in fact incorrect translation.
