Chapter III: ~Die Hexenburg~

+Page 24.+--1. ~+das Prahóvathal+~, _valley of the Prahova_ (river), cf. page 9, note 5.

2. ~+Cetatea+~ (pronounce ~tschetaté~, Roumanian, from Latin: +civitas+, French: +cité+; Ital.: +cittadella+), "_borough_," "_citadel_." ~+Bábe[)i]+~ (three syllabic, Roumanian, genit. sing. of Slavic +baba+) "old woman," "witch."

3. ~+der Bucegi+~, cf. page 4, note 2.

4. ~+als spitzer Kegel+~. Idiom? Comp. ~auf hohem Felsenkegel, mit goldenem Kern, mit heller Stimme~.

5. ~+scheint+~ (seems, appears), _looks as if_.

6. ~+die Jipi+~, cf. page 9, note 1.

7. ~+vor+~ (of time) = ?

8. ~+als die Wölfe die Herden hüteten und Adler und Tauben bei einander nisteten+~, _i.e._ in the golden age when everything was as in Paradise.

9. ~+es+~ (indef.), _things, affairs, life_.

10. ~+die+~ (emphat.) = ~die, welche~ (correlat. pron.), _she_ (the one), _who . . ._

11. ~+der Goldfaden+~ (gold thread) or pl. ~Goldfäden~, _i.e._ the Roumanian bridal veil interwoven with spun-gold; cf. page 10, note 10.

12. ~+spänne+~ (past subj.). Why? Cf. page 20, note 2.

13. ~+bei+~, _by, near, at, at the house of, in, with, among_. Here = ?

14. ~+welches+~ (neuter), on account of grammatical gender of ~Bergmännlein~.

+Page 25.+--1. ~das letzte Körnchen +Goldes+~ (the genit. after a simple noun of measure, is obsolete and poetical), for the more common ~Körnchen +Gold+~.

2. ~+Bába+~ (cf. page 24, note 2). ~+Cóaja+~ (two syllabic, pronounce oa = ô, and j as in German), Roumanian, related to Lat. "cortex" and Eng. "cork."

3. ~+Alba+~ (from Lat: +albus, a, um+, "white").

4. ~+es+~ (introductory and grammatical subject). Logical subject? Cf. page 16, note 5.

+Page 26.+--1. ~+da´mit+~ (emphat.) = ~+hier+mit; mit +diesen+ Worten~.

2. ~+werde+~. Why the subjunctive? Cf. page 2, note 7.

3. ~+wie sehr+ (wie sehr . . . auch)~, _no matter how much, however much_.

4. ~+Alba+~, here: dative case.

5. ~+wie gern wäre sie+~. Comp. ~er hätte gern~ (page 12, note 3), and ~sie hätte am liebsten~ (page 14, note 1).

6. ~+es wird mir traurig ums Herz+~ (idiomat. impers. phrase), _I_ (begin to) _feel gloomy_ (heavy, depressed, melancholy), _I am heavy at heart_.

+Page 27.+--1. ~+darü´ber+~ (+over it+) idiomatic. anticipating the contents of the following sentence, remains untranslated. Comp. ~darauf~ (page 6, note 3).

2. ~+spinne+~. Why the subjunctive? Cf. page 3, note 2. Direct question?

3. ~+er hatte gar keinen Bart+~, he was young and smooth-faced, thus strikingly contrasting to the old gnomes with their long gray beards.

4. ~+der+~ (emphat.) = ~jener~, _that man, that fellow_.

5. ~+die im Thale+~ (elliptic.), for ~die Leute, die im Thale wohnen~, _those in the valley_.

6. ~+du thust+~ (pres. tense). Explain the idiom! Cf. page 13, note 1.

7. ~+so wie so+~ (colloq. phrase), _anyway, at all events_.

8. ~+so+~ (= ~so faul~ or ~so müßig~) ~+dasitzen+~ (colloq. phrase), _to idle away one's time_.

+Page 28.+--1. ~+de´nen+~ (emphat.), for demonstrat. pronoun (~diesen~, _these_) or pers. pronoun (~ihnen~, _them_). How seen that it is not relative?

2. ~+darü´ber+~, remains untranslated. Why? Cf. page 27, note 1.

3. ~+sich sehen lassen+~ (reflexive phrase with passive sense), _to be seen_. Comp. ~er ließ +sich+ nicht trösten~ (page 9, note 10).

4. ~+wie sehr+ . . . +auch+~ = ? Cf. page 26, note 3.

5. ~+Porfi´rie+~ (three syllabic), proper name, from Græco-Latin: +{Porphyrios}+; +Porphyrius+ (= "Purple Bearer"), _Porphyry_.

6. ~+nicht+ gewohnt, etwas +nicht+ zu können~ (two negatives with the force of an emphatic affirmation), = ~gewohnt, +alles und jedes+ zu können~, _wont_ (bent, accustomed) _to carry out all his plans_ (or _designs_).

+Page 29.+--1. ~+einem Drachen+~ (privative sense of the dative, mostly after verbs compound with the prefix ~ent-~) ~+entreißen+~, _to snatch from a dragon_.

2. ~+damit´+~ (+therewith+, +with it+) remains untranslated. Why? Comp. ~+darü´ber+~ (page 27, note 1).

3. ~+den ganzen Morgen+~, accusative expressing duration of time: _how long?_

4. ~+die Alpenrose+~ (also called ~Almenrausch~ or ~Alpenfeuer~), "RHODODENDRON HIRSUTUM" of the botanists, one of the prettiest and most highly priced alpine flowers, related to our Purple Azalea or Pinxter-Flower.

5. ~+kam+~ (+came+). Note the rhetorical figure of "personification," which consists in representing inanimate objects as if endowed with life and action, an idiom occasionally employed as a substitute for the passive voice which is less used in German than in English; trans. _was put_ or _placed_.

6. ~+schlecht sehen+~, here: _to have weak eyes, to be short_ (or _near-_) _sighted_.

7. ~+dem+~, with emphasis. Why?

8. ~+sollte+~ (+should+), _was to_; _was_ (_said_ or) _threatened to . . ._

+Page 30.+--1. ~+die Haare+~ (idiomat. pl.), _hair_; comp. ~die Lüfte~, air.

2. ~+sich+ fangen~ (reflexive for passive, as often), _to be caught_.

3. ~+als+~, here = ~als wenn~; cf. page 1, note 5.

4. ~+Einen mit großen Augen anschauen+~, a phrase expressing surprise and astonishment.

5. ~+unter+~ = +under+ (place); _among_ (number?) = Here = ?

6. ~+ja+~ (adverbial idiom) = ? Cf. page 12, note 8. See also page 31, line 1 (of the text) and state which of the two words ~ja~ found there, is affirmative particle (= _yes_) and which adverbial idiom (= _why!_ or _you know_).

+Page 31.+--1. ~gern~ (positive), "gladly," "willingly"; ~lieber~ (comparative), "rather," "better"; ~am liebsten~ (superlative), "best of all"; ~+ich möchte lieber+~, _I should_ (rather wish) _prefer_.

2. ~+streicheln sogar+~ (elliptic. ~»darfst du es«~ being implied).

3. ~+heißen+~ = 1) to call _or_ to name; 2) to be called _or_ named; 3) _to bid, to order_. Here = ?

4. ~+es+~ (idiomat.) ~wird mir bange~ (impersonal phrase), _I become alarmed, I begin to feel uneasy_.

5. ~+das alles+~ (neut. sing., idiomatically relating to persons of different gender) for masc. and fem. pl. ~alle diese (Leute)~, _all these_.

+Page 32.+--1. ~+das+ bin ich~, refers back to the preceding. The English _this_ (_that_), _these_ (_those_), when immediately preceded or followed by the verb "to be" are rendered in German by the neuter pronoun ~dieses~ (usually shortened to ~dies~ or ~das~), without any regard to the number or gender of the noun referred to.

2. ~+zu was?+~ here = ~für was? zu welchem Zwecke?~ _for what purpose?_

3. ~es geht~ (impers. phrase), it can be done, it will do; ~+es wird nicht anders gehen+~ (about the idiomat. use of the future, cf. page 14, note 2), _that cannot be done otherwise_ (or _without it_), _I suppose_.

+Page 33.+--1. (~umgeben~, pass.) ~+von+~ = ?

2. ~+staunender Freude+~, genitive, dependent on adj. ~voll~, _full of . . ._

3. ~+Euer, Eu(e)re, Euer+~ possessive form of pers. pronoun ~Ihr~, which in earlier language was used in polite address (= modern ~Sie~), _your_.

4. ~+noch gar nicht+~ (adverb. idiom), _not yet, by any means_.

5. ~+es+~ (neuter) referring to ~das Ehegemahl~, obsol. (= 1. husband; 2. wife), trans. _she_.

6. ~+uns+~. Case? Dependent on? How to render? Cf. page 29, note 1.

+Page 34.+--1. ~+beim Spinnen+~, comp. ~im Stürzen~, page 22, note 5.

2. (~gesponnen~, pass.) ~+von+~ = ?

3. ~sie +hätte+ . . . gemacht~ (past subj. for conditional) = ~sie +würde+ gemacht +haben+~.

+Page 35.+--1. ~+wäre sie+~ (condit. inversion, ~wenn~ omitted) = ~wenn sie wäre~; comp. ~will's Gott~ (page 7, note 4).

2. ~+möge+ verschonen, +solle+ legen~ (indirect subj.). Direct: ~»Verschont mich!«~ ~»Lege mir auf die Haare!«~

+Page 36.+--1. ~+die+~, with emphasis. Why?

2. ~+würde+~. Mood? Why? Cf. page 20, note 2.

3. ~+dazu´.+~ Idiom? Cf. page 27, note 1.

4. Distinguish ~+am Hofe+~ (_at court_) and ~auf dem Hofe~ (in the yard).

5. ~+es+ ist mir um etwas zu thun~ (impers. phrase), _I care for something_.

6. ~+daran´+~ (on [_of_] it). Idiom?

7. ~er ließ +sich+ nicht bereden~ (reflexive for passive) = ? Comp. ~er ließ sich nicht trösten~ (page 9, note 10).

8. ~+je mehr+ . . . +um so mehr+~ (for the more common ~desto mehr~), correlat., _the more . . . the more . . ._

+Page 37.+--1. ~+was?+~ (colloq.) for ~warum?~ _why?_

2. ~+der´gestalt+~ (~+der+~ [emphat.] ~Gestalt~, ~von +der+ Gestalt~), phrase formed with adverbial genit. of manner, _in such a manner, to such an extent_ or _degree_; syn. ~+der+maßen~ (= ~von~ or ~in +dem+ Maße~), 5 lines below.

3. ~+ich habe+~ (idiomat., present tense for future) = ?

4. ~+mir+ . . . +ent+laufen~. Force of the dative? Cf. page 29, note 1.

+Page 38.+--1. ~+doch, doch!+~ (adverb. idiom), cf. page 3, note 3.

2. ~+auch+~ (idiomat.) omit in English!

3. ~+Alba Regi´na+~ (Roumanian, pronounce ~re-dschi´na~; the same form as in Latin: +alba+ "white," and +regina+ "queen," "queenlike, queenly"). _Queen Alba_ or _Queenly_ (= Noble) _White_ = ~Edelweiß~.

4. ~+das E´delweiß+~, "LEONTOPODIUM ALPINUM" of the botanists, English "Lion's foot" _or_ "Padelion" (from French +Pas-de-lion+), a woolly alpine plant, whose large, downy, and star-like white flowers are highly priced by the tourists. In translating retain the German name of the plant.

5. ~+die Goldfäden+~, cf. page 10, note 10, and also page 24, note 11.