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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