Happy Fritzmas! (*) / Frederician discussion post 7

[cahn]

Frederician fandom is the best! 3 stories in main archive and 2 stories in Madness, eeeeeeee and I have only managed to read my own gifts so far (well, I guess Madness isn't open yet either, but even if it had been I wouldn't have managed to have read them) but they are so goooooood

Also, I would like to apologize on behalf of the fandom that none of us apparently managed any Fritz/Voltaire. Some of us, uh, didn't know enough about Voltaire, and we are Taking Steps to attempt to rectify this in the future if anyone requests it, say, next year. Just saying.

I'm making this post because the last one has an insane number of comments, but I still owe SO many comments on the last post and I kiiiinda would like to read and comment on Yuletide stories for the next week as time permits so I almost hope this post doesn't get much action and then we resume in the new year? (Especially since there is a limited amount of discussion we can do on the fics right now!) :D I was thinking of making another post anyway for reveals.

(*) My husband D came up with this :P :)

Comments

Re: Münchow

[mildred_of_midgard]

This is not really a subdetective request so much as a German-speaker request: can you help me with the underlined part of "bedeckte sich mit einer weißen Mütze, welche er zuvor zu dem Ende bei sich gesteckt hatte"? He'd done what with his cap?

Re: Münchow

[selenak]

Covered himself - i.e. his head. At least that‘s how I understand it.

Re: Münchow

[mildred_of_midgard]

The part I'm missing is the underlined part: what had he been doing with his cap *before* he put it on his head?

Re: Münchow

[selenak]

Ah. "Which before he'd taken along in preparation for the ending". "Bei sich gesteckt" implies he'd tucked it inside his shirt, or something like that.

Re: Münchow

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ah, perfect, thank you! I figured he had tucked it in somewhere, but I wasn't grasping that "Ende" was an event rather than a location--I couldn't tell if he'd stuck the cap in a back pocket or tucked it into his waistband behind him or something. But if that's "for the end", then that makes perfect sense.

Thanks!