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Resources
✥ Elf Entry
✥ Hen Llinge/Elder Speech Translations
⇴ Big Russian Dictionary/Grammar page
⇴ Elder Speech translator
⇴ Forum post
⇴ Forum post 2
⇴ Elain Ettariel - Elder Speech song
⇴ Cut scene w/ lots of Elder Speech
✥ Dana - Earth Goddess/Elven Religion
✥ Dol Blathanna/Valley of Flowers
✥ Elven Calendar
✥ Ancient Elven City description
✥ Elder Blood
✥ Other Scoia'tael Commando Leaders/Vrihedd Officers
⇴ Isengrim Faoiltiarna
⇴ Coinneach Dá Reo
⇴ Riordain
⇴ Angus Bri Cri
✥ The World of the Witcher e-book
✥ Timeline
✥ The Continent
✥ The Conjunction of the Spheres
✥ Witcher 3 State of War Explained
✥ Notes plurk
✥ Penobscot bow + Forum post + Cable backed bow
✥ Choosing Iorveth's Path
✥ Iorveth Kills Geralt
✥ Iorveth defeats Roche
✥ Saskia's Scoia'tael Speech
✥ Backstory Dialogue
✥ Iorveth Intro
✥ Best of Iorveth Video
✥ Witcher 2 in 14 minutes
Aen Seidhe :: Elves. Refers directly to elves who came to the Continent on their white ships before the humans appeared, unlike the Aen Elle who inhabit a completely different world that the one in which their counterparts reside.
Scoia'tael :: iorveth's freedom fighters. Translates to ‘squirrels’ because they attached squirrel tails to their shit, but also they live in the forest, supposedly in trees and probably eat nuts.
dh'oine :: human
vatt'ghern :: witcher
Gwynbleidde :: White Wolf aka Geralt
Maethe taerde :: good luck
esseath vatt'ghern :: you are witcher
Bloede dh'oine :: bloody human
Va fail :: Farewell, Goodbye
Ayd f'haeil moen Hirjeth taenverde :: Conquer with courage rather than strength, meaning brute force isn’t the best way to go - plot or be cunning or be courageous in the plans you make.
Ceádmil :: greet/greetings
evelienn :: every, all
Vrihedd :: Reference to the Vrihedd Brigade that was the Elven forces in the second Nilfgaardian war, in which Iorveth was an officer. Not sure what the word actually translates as, though :|a Vrihedd brigade, led by Isengrim, who was escaped the scoia'tael officer execution (as iorveth did) - the dude people thought Iorveth is written as (no longer accurate bc they're both mentioned as separate people in W3)
whoreson
plough - 'fuck' is also still used, as is shit and arse (notably arse, not ass), but things like "you're ploughed" or "the ploughing sons of bitches" or "you'll be ploughed if you fight them" "plough it" "go plough yourself" will be said. As well as for sexual things.
HYMN OF THE JOYFUL
The hanged people dance on the ropes,
Rhythmically writhing in spasms,
Sing your song with melancholic emotion,
To amuse the joyful.
Each of the dead remember,
When their feet left the stool,
And their eyes popped out of their sockets.
Dance on the hanging ropes,
Happily writhe in spasms.
And the wind carries their songs,
The ringing chorus all around.
- Sung in the concentration camp of Drakenborg by the elves fed watered down alcohol, while listening to the sounds from the death cell, named thus because the cells sounded far too joyful for what it was.