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[blackfeathers]

Always a good day when Arany blesses us with his music

[anotherhistoryenthusiast]

I attempted writing an English lyrics. It's not a mirror translation. It was hard to translate becouse the dialect is very old, it's often hard to make sense of. The poem itslelf is 460 paragraphs long, so this is just a small portion of it. Most of it uses a kind of past tense that does not exist in Hungarian anymore, so I did not know what was the English equivalent of it, I just used what I felt right. So feel free to correct me:

I am writing the tale of the castle of Eger,
It's siege, it's struggle,
The shameful loss of the army of the Empreror, (Sultan)
The great joy of King Ferdinand.

The gallant Captain István Dobó,
István Becskey, his mate and second officer,
Gáspár Pető the good, third officer,
István Zoltay, the fourth officer.

Among them, there is scholar Gergely Bornemissza the good,
The fifth officer of the good king (Ferdinand),
János Figedy, the man of the Chapter (a type of religious organisation within the Church),
Officer of the priests of Eger.

A lot of janissaries had arrived, they camped at the castle,
150 000 men, the army of the Empreror (Sultan),
His 16 old (great) cannons,
His many peasants, not having a country (I don't know what he means by that, It could be a way to describe their large number).

The pagans climbed the walls,
They had broken many banners,
They were shouting Allah, drums were rumbling,
They were shooting or fencing, they were really "manning" (an expression in Hungarian, meaning someone acting strong and tough).

They (defenders) shouted Jesus three times,
Drums and trumpets were screaming,
Guns were cracking loudly from both sides,
Shiny weapons were glinting and clashing.

They were horrendously fighting, fencing
At all of the bastions, with a lot of bloodshed,
A lot of them were wounded, screaming loudly,
A lot of them fell with mortal wounds.

[kcozadurnylol]

I wish I'll learn this crazy language one day. It blows my mind :D

[Raven-pfyw]

Köszönöm! Magyon megörültem ahogy megkaptam az értesítést erről. Szeretem amit csinálsz, és fontosnak is tartom, ez sosem évülhet el.

[hejjadaniel]

Szeretem Arany Zoltán előadásait, de ezt Kobzos Kiss Tamás előadásában a legjobb (szerintem).

[pablomelgarmoncada]

Segundo comentario!!! Xd PD: Brutal tema.