Can you please please please give us The Travelers Blessing in Trigedasleng. (Want it as a tattoo but in trig for Lexa) 😭 In peace, may you leave this shore. In love, may you find the next. Safe passage on your travels, until our final journey to the ground. May we meet again.
This is a tough translation, and I’m not sure I can match the grace of the English, but I can translate it. Here it is:
Kom chilnes yu na ban sishou-de au,Kom hodnes yu na hon neson op.Gouthru klir hashta yu soujon,Kom taim oso fali kom daun gon graun-de.
I have two thoughts on this translation. The last line’s a little long. It could be shortened by changing oso to ‘so. It could also be shortened by removing fali. And you could do both. I’m not certain what version would be best. All work, though. I stand by getting rid of “this” in the first line and translating it as sishou-de. I think it works better in Trig. I also think using na is more elegant than mebi or hofli for this translation. I also like kom daun gon better than komba raun, despite its being wordier, because it makes direct reference to coming down to Earth from space. I also like that there were a couple happy accidents—the first being that gouthru klir is literally from the first line of Trigedasleng in the show back in 201 (Octavia, who’s rehearsing the line in preparation of meeting with the Grounders), and the second being that graun-de sounds like “Grounder”.
Thanks for your patience with this. :) Not just you, but everyone else who’s been looking for a translation of this. I’ve been super busy, and a translation like this isn’t simple, so I want to be sure I get it right. Thanks for the ask. <3
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