Help: Translation needed: Can y melinydd

Subject: RE: Help: Translation needed: 'Can y melinydd'
From: Mad Maudlin
Date: 04 Jul 02 - 04:55 PM

Thank you, glad you like it! Politically correct - ugh! "an obese pig and a cow" just doesn't scan...:-)

Subject: RE: Help: Translation needed: 'Can y melinydd'
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 04 Jul 02 - 06:29 PM

Great work Nigel -- thanks for the PM. Unfortunately I just can't separate the references to the cow and the wife now!
How about:
I have a cow and a cockerel
Some piglets and a hen
A wife to keep me warm at night
I'm the happiest of men
("I'm the" would need to be run together to scan)

BJ

Subject: RE: Help: Translation needed: 'Can y melinydd'
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Jul 02 - 04:05 AM

Bullfrog: thanks for the input, but I think we'll probably go with Maudlin's. The "wife to keep me warm at night" is a nice idea, but not in keeping with a translation of a C19th poem.

Nigel

Subject: RE: Help: Translation needed: 'Can y melinydd'
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Jul 02 - 04:39 AM

This thread is now moved to Lyr Add: Cân y milenydd Any new posts or comments there please.










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Ta Nigel