Talk:Saule, Pērkons, Daugava

= Translation =

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I know this is from a scholarly source, but the translation is simply awful. VєсrumЬа ►TALK 22:51, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Suggestion/proposal

 * The sun lay Latvia down
 * There, where boundaries meet:
 * The white sea, the verdant land.
 * The Latvian gate-key.
 * The Latvian gate-key,
 * Guardian of the Daugava.
 * Foreign peoples broke down the gate,
 * The key fell into the sea.
 * Blue-white lightning, Thunder smote,
 * Taking the key from the devils.
 * Latvia safe-locked life and death,
 * The white sea, the verdant land.
 * The sun lay Latvia down
 * Along the white sea's shore,
 * The winds swirled up the sands,
 * What shall Latvian children drink?
 * The Sun commanded God
 * That he dig the Daugava
 * The beasts dug, God poured in
 * Life-giving water from a cloud.
 * Waters of life, waters of death
 * Flowed together into the Daugava.
 * I dip in my finger tip
 * I feel both in my soul.
 * Waters of death, waters of life —
 * We feel both in our soul.
 * The Sun, our mother —
 * The Daugava — nursemaid to our pain,
 * Thunder, the devil's smiter,
 * He, our father.
 * Waters of death, waters of life —
 * We feel both in our soul.
 * The Sun, our mother —
 * The Daugava — nursemaid to our pain,
 * Thunder, the devil's smiter,
 * He, our father.
 * He, our father.

VєсrumЬа ►TALK 00:37, 24 September 2022 (UTC)