Hoe herken ik mijn liefje

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by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) and sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Translation © by Lau Kanen

Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Our translations: DUT FRE

Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb
Vor [den]¹ Andern nun?
An dem Muschelhut und Stab
Und den Sandalschuh'n?

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• R. Strauss

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Confirmed with Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark, übersetzt von Karl Simrock, in: William Shakspear’s[sic] sämmtliche dramatische Werke in neuen Uebersetzungen, Leipzig: Georg Wigand’s Verlag, [no year], page 686

Note: according to The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, ed. by Charles Youmans, Seeger is listed as the translator of Hamlet, but Seeger's translations are quite different. Simrock and Seeger are listed together as the translators for the ten-volume set.

¹ omitted by Strauss

Text Authorship:

by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

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a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Hamlet [an adaptation] and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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Based on:

a text in English possibly by Walter Raleigh, Sir (1552? - 1618)
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by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Erstes Lied der Ophelia", op. 67 (Sechs Lieder), Heft 1 no. 1 (1918)
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DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , no title, copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Hoe herken ik mijn liefje

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the German (Deutsch)

Hoe herken ik mijn liefje
Uit [de]¹ anderen?
Aan zijn mosselhoed en staf
En zijn sandalen?

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Translation of title "Erstes Lied der Ophelia" = "Eerste lied van Ophelia"

¹ omitted by Strauss.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868 and misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Hamlet [an adaptation] and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in English possibly by Walter Raleigh, Sir (1552? - 1618)
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2019-01-17
Line count: 4
Word count: 17