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German speakers, what does this say?
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Found this in the school hallways. I don’t know German
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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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlk%C3%B6nig
I'm triggered by the son sitting behind the father.