[Tlhingan-hol] O for a Muse of fire

[Felix Malmenbeck]

ngoDvam boghoj ghIq nom Suvum. majQa'! :)

klingonska.org's canon archives include an old transcription by Quvar:

  ro ba qa DevwI' So na jaj
   wIv la ta laH chaH
   'oH quv 'oH puS
   SoH Da'oS
   logh'e' lujlu'
   luchatlhpu' wo' SaS SuvwI'pu''e'
   neSlu', luSaS lujbej
   laS puqleS lo
   bIratlh, lutoy'meH
   puSlaH qa', Ha'DIbaH je, Daqa'vam!
   buS chap qevaDaq 'a ghen toq
   chaq luwISpu' chaH
   mIv ya meS'e' DIHoHlaH chaH!
   mIv yImeS
   Ha ha ha ha haaa! .... ouargh!

http://klingonska.org/canon/search/?file=1996-04-kcd.txt&get=source

Somebody more well-versed in Shakespeare can probably draw some conclusions from that :)
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From: De'vID jonpIn [de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 09:24
To: KLI
Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] O for a Muse of fire

At the qepHom in Saarbrücken, MO gave us a hint on Gowron's speech from the opening of the  Star Trek: Klingon computer game.  He said it's the opening lines of a Shakespearean play.

After some effort, maHvatlh (Zrajm) and I figured out that the play is Henry V.  The opening line is:

'o 'oghlu'meH qul
O for a Muse of fire

MO confirmed the play and the correctness of that specific line.  However, we were not able to recover the original beyond this other than a few scattered words and fragments.

Also, a subsequent search revealed that qurgh had made the same conjecture about the identity of the passage earlier.

Does anyone wants to look at that passage from Henry V and give a go at reconstructing the original Klingon?

De'vID