Now I don't request a full translation, but being given a general idea would be too nice. I have to admit I'd like to know what the tombstone with the man and the sheep is about... :redface: I know that much: It's the "Merry Cemetary" (Cimitirul Vesel) in Săpânţa in Rumania. mcstrick: ?????? ????????? ????????? (via lylyk_lylyk)
Yeah, I saw a Michael Palin documentary a while back where he went to visit the place. Romanian isn't the same as Russian though, or have you found one written in Russian? This video translates some of them: YouTube - PETER KAYAFAS--The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta
No, but the site I linked to describes and explains them in Kyrillic script, so I assumed the page is in Russian. I know Romanian is a Romanic language, and not the same (or even in the same language family) as Russian. I know we have some Russian speakers around who might be able to read what it says under the pictures, but wouldn't know about anyone in our community who speaks Rumanian and would be able to read the inscriptures *on* the pictures.
That isn't Russian, Hsing. The script is Cyrillic, but the language itself is Ukranian - close enough to Russian for me to understand *some* of it, but not all of it, or accurately. Mowgli is from Ukraine, if memory serves, so she should be able to help with translating this. I *will* say that it doesn't seem like the post actually addresses the text of the tombstones, but instead merely talks about how cool the pictures are.
Thanks a lot. In that case, the video Mal linked probably holds more info for me. I can see for myself that the pictures are cool... Maybe I'll send them to my Romanian lecturer, but knowing Mrs Pop, she won't explain the sheep one to me. :razz:
ZOMGLOLROFLMAO (and so on) what is that dude doing to that sheep? Mowgli ! Help us ! We must know !!!
Wow!!! Roman's right, though - the site merely commentates on the tombstones, since the author doesn't speak Romanian either. I can translate the comments (which are mildly funny in themselves) but what's written on the graves is still a mystery. Hmm, when I'm not supposed to be working, I'll see if I can find the "happy cemetery" itself on Wikipedia, or somesuch...
Yes, you should be able to find it under the Romanian name I posted above... at least it has a German wikipedia-entry.
Isn't it weird how you come across things... I just found this on the web while trawling through an archive. The oxymoronicly-named Merry Cemetery of Sampata is world-renowned for the ornately-carved wooden crosses that bear painted art and poetry chronicling the life, and sometimes the death, of the deceased. The grave of a three-year-old girl has a painting of the car that hit her, and a poem that translates as: Burn in Hell you damned Taxi That came from Sibiu As large as Romania is You couldn’t find any other place to stop Only in front of my house To kill me? In a village this small, there are no secrets, even after death. One cross tells what everyone already knew about this fellow: One more thing I loved very much, To sit at a table in a bar Next to someone else’s wife. Self-taught woodworker and poet Ioan Patras Stan carved brightly-colored memorials for over 50 years. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/date/2007/02/page/14/ Tourism - Maramures - Sapanta - The Merry Cemetery
