#via2

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from Ethan Weinstein: translation into German of the 1st tercet of the Commedia

Halbwegs durch die Reise unseres Lebens fand ich mich in einem dunklen Wald weil der direkte Weg verloren war

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Via2: First Tercet of Commedia translated by Mikhail Leonidovich Lozinskog

емную жизнь пройдя до половины, Я очутился в сумрачном лесу, Утратив правый путь во тьме долины.

-Михаил Леонидович Лозинский, 1982

(Halfway through earthly life, I found myself in a sombre wood, Having lost the right way in the darkness of the valley.

- Mikhail Leonidovich Lozinskog, 1982)

(http://loveread.ec/read_book.php?id=8580&p=3)

This translation keeps the terza rima form.

Zoe

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Dante in Chinese

This is from Tian Dewang’s 1997 prose translation of the Divine Comedy. The clunky English translation is mine.

在人生的中途，我发现我已经迷失了正路，走进了一座幽暗的森林，啊！要说明这座森林多么荒野，难险，难行，是一件多么困难的事啊！只要一想起它，我就又觉得害怕。它的苦和死相差无几。但是为了述说我在那里遇到的福星，我要讲一下我在那里看见的其他的事物。

Midway through life, I realized I had already lost the straight path, and gone into a dark forest. Ah! To explain how wild, dangerous, and hard to travel this forest is is a very difficult thing! As soon as I think of it, I feel afraid. Its bitterness is not very different from death. But in order to recount the lucky star I encountered there, I will try to explain the other things I saw there.

#Inferno #Chinese #Michael Berson

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Inferno First Tercet - Arabic, trans. Kadhem Jihad

الكوميديا الالهامية

The Divine Comedy

نقلها الى العربية: كاظم جهاد

Translated to Arabic by Kadhem Jihad

الجحيم

The Inferno

في منتصف طريق حياتنا

ألفيتني في غابة مظلمة

الأن جادة الصواب كانت مفقودة.

In the middle of our life’s path

I found myself in a darkened wood

Because the avenue of rightness was lost.

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Hertz's Dante

Dante Alighieri - La Divina Commedia - Inferno

Wilhelm G. Hertz - Die Göttliche Komödie – Hölle

Als unseres Lebens Mitte ich erklommen,

Befand ich mich in einem dunklen Wald,

Da ich vom rechten Wege abgekommen.

When midway through our life,

I found myself in a dark forest,

Since I strayed from the right path

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Sophia Chun Hertz's Dante

Dante Alighieri - La Divina Commedia - Inferno

Wilhelm G. Hertz - Die Göttliche Komödie – Hölle

Als unseres Lebens Mitte ich erklommen,

Befand ich mich in einem dunklen Wald,

Da ich vom rechten Wege abgekommen.

When midway through our life,

I found myself in a dark forest,

Since I strayed from the right path

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From Schlegel's Translation of Dante

From Die Hölle [Hell], trans. August Wilhelm Schlegel 

Der erste Gesang führt mit einer knappen Zeitandeutung sofort in den Beginn der visionären Handlung:

Als ich die Bahn des Lebens halb vollendet,

Fand ich in einem dunkeln Walde mich,

Weil ich vom graden Weg mich abgewendet.

The first canto leads with a terse adumbration of time straightway into the beginning of the visionary plot: 

When I half completed life’s way,

I found in a dark wood myself,

For I had turned from the direct path away.