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| | 22 Iulie 2007 18:41 |
| | A corect translation from Danish should be:
"There is no room in the world for more than one king Ludovicus"
Regards,
Mats |
| | 22 Iulie 2007 22:54 |
| | Yes - I just thought of this too - it's a good solution to the awkward plural of "Ludovicus". Thanks! |
| | 22 Iulie 2007 22:56 |
| | By the way, isn't his name King Ludwig in English, or is that only for the ones from Germany? |
| | 22 Iulie 2007 23:14 |
|  guilonNumărul mesajelor scrise: 1549 | For instance, "Ludovicus Pius" of the Carolingian is known as "Louis the Pious" in English. Should we edit? |
| | 22 Iulie 2007 23:25 |
| | I don't know - I guess it depends on which Ludovicus this is - is he Danish, German, Italian (Luigi), French, or what? If he is Danish, what is he called in Danish? CC: wkn |
| | 23 Iulie 2007 17:16 |
|  wknNumărul mesajelor scrise: 332 | I Denmark he would be called "Kong Ludvig" but we never had a king with that name. |
| | 23 Iulie 2007 17:21 |
| | What does your note under the translation say - you found it on an old ??? Where was the "knap" from? CC: wkn |
| | 23 Iulie 2007 22:07 |
|  guilonNumărul mesajelor scrise: 1549 | I've googled this sentence, and it seems to be etched in a lot of ancient buttons but I didn't manage to know their origin (military or what, country, king alluded, ....) |
| | 23 Iulie 2007 22:18 |
| | Interesting - it seems the order should have been the following:
LUDOVICUS REX PLURES NON CAPIT ORBIS |
| | 23 Iulie 2007 22:41 |
|  guilonNumărul mesajelor scrise: 1549 | But you know, Latin is not as strict with its syntax as modern languages are. Because meaning is not determined by the order of the words but by the the way they are declined through suffixes. |
| | 23 Iulie 2007 23:03 |
| | Yes, of course. I don't think this affects the translation. |