Found this in the school hallways. I don’t know German
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!!
man, that’s triggering some instense school PTSD flashbacks.
It is a piece of Goethe’s “Erlkönig”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlkönig
Edit: should be noted that whoever wrote it, has either a very very bad handwriting, or made some typos
Whoever wrote this was probably still in school and I would guess in a North American one because of the cursive they wrote in. I think they also copied the text, badly, and that explains the mistakes.
the type of cursive is actually the same I learned in germany as a kid
Correct, we live in the U.S.
They’re spelling mistakes when not typed.
Google translation
This is so wrong it hurts my soul and I’m pretty indifferent towards poetry.
Thank you!!
I do hope you saw my other comment because this is a really crude and in fact incorrect translation.
