Talk:Eisenherz

?Iron Heart?
eisen is freezing and herz is hug, while Eisen is iron and Herz is heart, so is it actually "iron heart" or something else? -- 65.94.170.98 (talk) 14:08, 28 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Native German here, I can clear this up.
 * "Eisenherz" is a compound noun, thus you can already rule out eisen and herzen as they're not nouns. "Eisenherz" is indeed "iron" and "heart" and means someone with a "hardened heart" in a good way, because that someone is brave or valiant. Hence "Prinz Eisenherz" is the German translation of "Prince Valiant".
 * To have a little fun with language, let's look at the other forms, too. "eisen" is either an obsolete adjective meaning "made of iron", or a verb meaning "to freeze". It might be on the way to become obsolete, too, because various derived forms of frieren are preferred as far as I'm aware. herz, on the other hand, is the imperative form of herzen ("to hug"). Compounding those two would be something like "made of iron-do hug!" or "to freeze-do hug!". It makes as much sense as in English, which is none whatsoever.
 * Thanks for the question, this was fun! --2001:16B8:241D:EB00:701C:CD1F:86A7:44F6 (talk) 17:24, 18 January 2021 (UTC)