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Let's have a nice conversation about national anthems, and learn a bit more together. Today we will start with the Romanian anthem, "Deșteaptă-te, române", translated as "Wake up, Romanian". Remember that this thread needs of your participation.
According to the Wikipedia, it was written and published (under a different name) during the 1848 revolution, by Andrei Mureșanu. As you can read, it contains a message of liberty and patriotism, but keeping that agonizing and funeral style.
Check how it sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTwgwEHiWm0
Verses 1-2
>Romanian
Deșteaptă-te, române, din somnul cel de moarte,
În care te-adânciră barbarii de tirani
Acum ori niciodată croiește-ți altă soarte,
La care să se-nchine și cruzii tăi dușmani.
Acum ori niciodată să dăm dovezi la lume
Că-n aste mâni mai curge un sânge de roman,
Și că-n a noastre piepturi păstrăm cu fală-un nume
Triumfător în lupte, un nume de Traian.
>English
Wake up, Romanian, from the sleep of death
Into which you have been sunk by the barbaric tyrants
Now, or never, make a new fate for yourself,
To which even your cruel enemies will bow.
Now or never let us give proof to the world
That in these veins a Roman blood still flows,
That in our chests we hold a name with pride,
Victorious in battle, the name of Trajan!
Check the last line. It mentions the Roman Emperor Trajan. Interesting, isn't it? He was born in the Iberian Peninsula, ruled Roman Empide, and ended conquering Dacian lands, and hearts...
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Verses 3-4
>Romanian
Priviți, mărețe umbre, Mihai, Ștefan, Corvine,
Româna națiune, ai voștri strănepoți,
Cu brațele armate, cu focul vostru-n vine,
"Viața-n libertate ori moarte" strigă toți.
Preoți, cu crucea-n frunte căci oastea e creștină,
Deviza-i libertate și scopul ei preasfânt.
Murim mai bine-n luptă, cu glorie deplină,
Decât să fim sclavi iarăși în vechiul nost' pământ.
>English
Behold, great shadows, Mihai, Ștefan, Corvinus,
The Romanian Nation, your great-grandchildren,
With weapons in their arms, with your fire in their veins,
"Life in freedom or death!" shout all.
Priests, lead with your crucifixes, for our army is Christian,
The motto is Liberty and its goal is holy,
Better to die in battle, in full glory,
Than to once again be slaves upon our ancient ground!
Here you can read three interesting names:
Mihai Viteazu (Michael the Brave), Prince of Wallachia (as Michael II, 1593–1601), Prince of Moldavia (1600) and de facto ruler of Transylvania (1599–1600), He is considered one of Romania's greatest national heroes and he is seen by the Romanian historiography as the first author of Romanian unity (a brief unity, it only lasted 6 months).
Ștefan cel Mare (Stephen III of Moldavia), voivode (or prince) of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504, and famous for his resistance against the Ottomans (among many other attributes).
Juan Hunyadi, one of the greatests warriors of the Oriental Europe, the equivalent of Henry V of England.
The fourth verse talks about Christianity. Interesting, because before the Tomans, Dacians used to believe in a whole pantheon where Zamolxis was the main god.
I forgot to say that this is the short version of the anthem. The long one is 11 verses long.
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I just came here to tell you thats a nice OP image
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>>2662471
What the fuck OP
You betrayed me
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>>2662139
>be Romanian
>claim to be descandants of Dacians
>praise the guy who genocided Dacians
Why.
It's like as if the Israeli anthem ended with 'Heil Hitler'
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