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note 8. 11. ~+das+~ (emphat.) = ~dieses~ or ~dasselbe~. Account for the neuter; cf. page 7, note 6. +Page 14.+--1. ~sie haette +am liebsten+~ (superlat. of ~gern~), _she would have liked best_. Comp. ~er haette +gern+~ (page 12, note 3). 2. ~+wird+ (wohl) +sein+~, idiomat. use of the fut. tense instead of the present, to express supposition or possibility, with the adverbs ~wohl~ or ~doch~ added, to bring out the sense more clearly; transl. _is_, (as) _I suppose_. 3. ~+Urlanda+~, of the same origin and meaning as ~Urlatoare~ (see page 9, note 4). 4. ~+Rolanda+~, girl's name, fem. of ~Rolandus~ ("Hruodlandus"), the most famous of the 12 paladins who lived in the palace of Charlemagne.--Regarding the transposition of the consonant r in changing +Ro+(landa) to +Ur+(landa), comp. the following German-English cognates: th+ir+d -- ~d+ri+tte~; +fri+ght --~+Fur+cht~; th+rough+ -- ~d+ur+ch~, and the dialect. form B+ri+mingham for B+ir+mingham. +Page 15.+--1. ~+auf der andern Seite der Berge+~, _i.e._ on the northern slope of the Carpathian Mountains = in Transylvania (~"Siebenbuergen"~), now a crown-land of Austria-Hungary. 2. ~+unsrer+~ or ~unserer~ (genit. of ~wir~), dependent on ~warten~, archaic. and poetic. construction for the modern ~warten auf . . .~ 3. ~+Baerenabenteuer+~ (+bear-adventures+), = bear-stories, "fish-stories"; _incredible hunting adventures_. Comp. the phrase: ~jemandem einen Baeren~ (= ~eine Baerengeschichte~) ~aufbinden~, to play a hoax on some one. 4. ~+wollte+~ (idiomat.), here = _was_ (willing or) _ready to_. Comp. ~sie +wollte+~ (_wanted, wished_) ~ihrer Soehne Kinder auf ihren Knieen wiegen~ (page 10, note 4), and ~als er den Wurfspiess schleudern +wollte+~ (_was to, was about to_), page 11, note 3. 5. ~er +habe+~. Mood? Why? Direct quotation? 6. ~+koennte+~ (conditional subjunctive), for conditional ~wuerde . . . koennen~. 7. ~+dem+~, with emphasis. Why? Cf. page 5, note 2. +Page 16.+--1. ~+die+~ (with emphasis) = ~diese~, or ~sie~. How known that it is not relative? 2. ~+fort+~, the infinitive of a verb of motion, as ~gehen~, being implied. 3. ~drum~ (colloq. for ~darum'~), about (it) them; ~+drum herum'+~, _round about_ (them). 4. ~+hinaus'+~, the perf. partic. of a verb of motion, as ~gegangen, gesprungen, geeilt~, etc., being implied. 5. ~+es+ lag ihr +die Sorge+ auf dem Herzen~, ~"es"~ being the introductory and grammatical subject, while the logic
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