Hi dear fellow lovers of Grendel
I recently embarked on the difficult task of translating Grendel into my language, Persian. And I hoped some native speakers could help me with my issues and questions. For now, I've translated the first chapter of the book and I'm gonna go ahead and give a list of the parts I couldn't clearly understand. so here we go:
* . I shake my head, muttering darkly on shaded paths
can u paraphrase this, what does darkly mean here?
* I am aware in my chest of tuberstirrings in the blacksweet duff of the forest overhead
- does it mean black in color and sweet in taste? and duff, it's rotten vegetables, right?
* I swim up through the firesnakes, hot dark whalecocks prowling the luminous green of the mere
- firesnake is a fictional creature, right? can it be translated into "Fiery Snakes"? Also I don't get the whalecock part, does he really mean the cock of whales, like prowling for sth to fuck?
* Space hurls outward, falconswift, mounting like an irreversible injustice, a final disease.
- can you describe the scene here? I don't get it clearly.
* I stand there shaking from head to foot, moved to the deep-sea depths of my being, like a creature thrown into audience with thunder
- a description of this scene would also help
* mute birds, pulsating, thoughtless clay in hushed old trees, thick limbs interlocked to seal drab secrets in.
- I also can't get this imagery in it's wholeness, please describe it for me if u can
A few little lizard tongues, then healthy flames: lizard tongues? wtf? healthy?
my pale slightly glowing fat mother: she's like glowing, as a monsterish thing?
steaming grass: I'm almost sure about this, but it doesn't bother to ask. it's like steam is coming out of the grass, right?
wolfslopes: i translated it into the slope of wolves
I stand in the high wind balanced: does it mean the wind blown on high cliffs or what?
cackle: laugh? right?
turning like falcons at warplay: what can i translate warplay into? a playful war maybe? or a warlike game?
thx in adv dear fellow literature loves