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Thread #135728 Message #3097128
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
17-Feb-11 - 09:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: La Filha Dou Ladre
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: La Filha Dou Ladre
Monique, thanks for your enlighting contribution.
Now I ask myself (and you) if that translation might be on the wrong track entirely: "ladre" could also translate robber, "ladraria": robbery or robber's cave, into which the father was born. Then the last verse would mean "If you try to touch me, I'll stab you, as we robbers in the forest are used to, or I'll call my dad to stab your posterior."
In any case, I cannot imagine a bèu chivalier wanting anything else but love or sex.
(BTW: needless to say that my Provençal amounts to nothing, but, like most tourists, I have been robbed in Italy.)