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Thread #135728   Message #3106155
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
03-Mar-11 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: La Filha Dou Ladre
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: La Filha Dou Ladre
In my post of 02 Mar 11 - 02:42 PM, the 14th verse is indeed most interesting. The baffled knight (as imagined by that 19th century witness) partially drops his educated French and uses the local dialect. In my translation I took the liberty to sketch colloquial language, which is of course a matter of taste.

The Écu was a coin current in France for centuries, originally of considerable value (gold). In its transsubstantiation ECU it was the predecessor of the Euro (€) currency.