11+Poets

Poetry

Translated by Bogi Pétur Thoraren, student

Frumgerð Refur. Höfundur Örn Arnarson ( Magnús Stefánsson 1884 – 1942 )

Original in Icelandic.

Refur I Refurinn gerir gren í urð gengur út til veiða. Oft er bágt og bjargarþurrð í búi fram til heiða.

Flæmdur er hann á fjöllin __#|einn__. Fátt er þar til bjarga. Vininn á hann ekki neinn, en andstæðinga marga.

Skeytir hann ei um boð né bann <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">bítur fé í högum, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">dræpur, hvar sem hittist hann, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">að hunda og manna lögum.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">II <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Mannúðin okkar manna <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">er mikil og dásamlig. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Við göngum svo langt í gæðum, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">að guð má vara sig.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Við segjum að allt sem andar, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">sé ættingjar guða og manns. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ef sjáum við fugla og fiska, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">við finnum til skyldleikans.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Og fjölgunarráð eru fundin, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">og friðunarlög eru sett, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">en refurinn erk sem áður <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">utan við lög og rétt.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Því hann er meðbiðill manna <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">til matarins. Það er nóg. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Og svo er hann ekki ætur, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">sem út __#|yfir__ gengur þó.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Við elskum allt, sem lifir, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">ef okkur skilist gat, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">að ef til vill gæti það orðið <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">á einhvern hátt að mat.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">En það, sem ei verður etið, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">__#|aldrei__ lagavernd fær. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Svo langt kemst mannúð manna <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">sem matarvonin nær.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Þýðing / tranlataion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Refur/ Fox

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Foxes lair in rock makes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Then out to hunt. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">But life is __#|hard__ __#|food__ __#|little__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">In the home in the hills

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Hunted on mountains all alone <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">__#|Little__ can help. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">No friends has he <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">And copitision plenty

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thinks neither right or wrong <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Bites sheep’s in fields <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Everyone wants him dead <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Dogs and men juges

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Humanity wonderful <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Special trick. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">We think us so __#|high__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">That God may beware

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">We say that all how live <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Are kin to God and men. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Se bird or __#|fish__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">That is easy to spot.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Laws for breading <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Laws for protection are put. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Yet foxes are hunted <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Out side the court.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">All he want is food <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Witch is plenty of <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">But we cant eat him <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">So what use is for him.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">All live is loved <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Depending on our mood <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Also if somhow <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">We can make it into food,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">No use to us <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">No protection from the law <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">This is human <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Animals who want food.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Frumgerð / original Grenið.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Höfundur / author Jónas Hallgrímsson 1807 – 1845

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Komið er að dyrum, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">kallað er úti, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">skotmaður spyr: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Er skolli heima? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">lambsfót sé eg liggja <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">og legg úr sauði, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">ræfil af rjúpu – <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">reiður er eg þér.“

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Tófa: (inni fyrir)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Heima segi eg mig, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">heill og sæll, vinur! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">gestur inn göfugi, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">gakk nú [|til] stofu. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Dyr eru lágar, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">dimmt er í húsi <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">fáráðs frumbýlings, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">fyrirgefðu það.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Skotmaður:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Út er að ganga <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">og undir renna <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">vopn voveifleg <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">og að velli falla; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">báðu mig bændur <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">belg þinn að hrjá, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">og blóðdrekki <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">að bana verða.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Tófa:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Annt er mér inni <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">í #|ofan hrundum <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">urðar hóli <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">orpnum moldu; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">margs ber að gæta <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">móður ungri, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">sona fjögra <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">og sex dætra.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Ein sit eg inni <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">og annast hlýt <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">kafloðna hvolpa <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">í krá dimmri, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">#|hlaupa þeir um holur, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">hrökklast þeir í gjótur, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">steðja þeir um steina, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">stunda á útkomu.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Höfuðlaust heita <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">heimili má, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">þá bóndinn er <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">á burtu genginn; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">rann refur minn <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">til rjúpna veiða <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">búi sínu <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">bjargir að fá.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Steggur Tófa Yrðlingur

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Our Family is called.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Skolli Melrakki Láfóta

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">By some named

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Blóðdreypir Dratali og Dýrbýtur

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">We always will be.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%; line-height: 1.5;">Bogi Pétur Thorarensen.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Steggur Skaufhali skolli <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Skuggabaldur Dratali og tófa <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Melraaki dýrbýtur Blóðdreypir <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">mæðra láfóta tía <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Keila tálsa tæfa. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Bogi