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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1477413, member: 39&quot;]A translation is difficult (and a good translation is impossible) for me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Partly because it&#039;s a poem, partly because Opitz&#039;s German is not really modern standard German. But this should give you an idea ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The wild people conquered all of Asia,</p><p>drove out the Greek, Thracians and Mysios (?),</p><p>And your Dacia too, the best land (province) of the Romans,</p><p>devastated and burned many years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>More, did not Attila with his gang of Scythians,</p><p>and then the Wends, run against you in a hostile way?</p><p>Your language, however, stays here until this very day,</p><p>what may be surprising for a man (ie. for people).</p><p><br /></p><p>Italy does by itself have nothing of its ancestors,</p><p>neither do (the languages of) Spain and Gaul,</p><p>how close this can be to the Romans,</p><p>such close relatives are Vlach and Latin.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, Attila did not have much to do with the (ancient) Scythians, but the idea is that the Romanian language (which Opitz calls &quot;Walachisch&quot;) survived despite the many wars and occupations. The last verse, badly translated by yours truly, is about how much closer Romanian is to Latin than French or Castilian Spanish are ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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