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a Cryer for the Dead

German translation: Totenkläger


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English term or phrase:a Cryer for the Dead
German translation:Totenkläger
Entered by: erika rubinstein
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17:34 May 12, 2007
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Games / Video Games / Gaming / Casino
English term or phrase: a Cryer for the Dead
Hallo!

Ich habe hier eine Liste mit Personen und Bezeichnungen, die zu einem Adventure-Spiel gehören, das recht mystisch, um nicht zu sagen keltisch :-) angehaucht ist.

(name), a Cryer for the Dead

Was genau ist darunter zu verstehen?

Danke.
Translate4u
Germany
Local time: 03:13
Totenkläger
Explanation:
Früher oder heute noch in bestimmten Kulturen und bei bestimmten Totenritualrn gab es Leute, die professionell für den Toten geweint haben
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erika rubinstein
Local time: 03:13
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Vielen Dank, Erika.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2Totenkläger
erika rubinstein
2not sure what is meanthirselina


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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
a cryer for the dead
Totenkläger


Explanation:
Früher oder heute noch in bestimmten Kulturen und bei bestimmten Totenritualrn gab es Leute, die professionell für den Toten geweint haben

erika rubinstein
Local time: 03:13
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Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Vielen Dank, Erika.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Hollywood: in Ireland they are hired mourners who bewail the passing of the deceased
4 mins
agree  Ovidiu Doctorescu
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
a cryer for the dead
not sure what is meant


Explanation:
Normally the "cryer" would be "Ansager" in German

The "Cryer of the dead" could also be a banshee

The Banshee, from the Irish bean sí ("woman of the sídhe" or "woman of the fairy mound") is a female spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld. Her Scottish counterpart is the Bean Nighe ("washer-woman").
The banshee wails around a house if someone is about to die.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee


hirselina
Local time: 03:13
PRO pts in category: 3

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  David Hollywood: banshee bean sí (fairy woman) announces imminent death but not sure if that's the idea of ""Cryer for the Dead" who have already passed away ....
6 mins
  -> akker specified the game was "keltisch angehaucht". What is "keltich" about a paid mourner?
neutral  Nadine Kahn: I don't like "Totenkläger" either. That is a mourner...
3 hrs
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