Cavalerii de Smarald

Another fiction book I would like to get into, perhaps once I am finished with my Harrius Potter experiment.

Les Chevaliers d'Émeraude is the original French title of the series, written by the Québécoise author, Anne Robillard — "The Knights of Emerald" is the English title. My interest, however, is not to read it in French, but, rather, to acquire the Romanian translation: Cavalerii de Smarald.

The first volume is subtitled Sub Semnul Stelei de Foc, or Le Feu Dans le Ciel in French. The Romanian translation differs somewhat from the French, which shows that some liberties were taken by the translators: "Under the Sign of the Star of Fire" versus the original "The Fire in the Sky".

As with anything else that's included in this blog, works of this nature always arouse comparisons to the other Romance languages and Latin. The title in Romanian parallels a Latin rendition very closely. We can appreciate from this title the unique preservation, within Romance, of the Latin genitive case in Romanian — Rom. stelei "of the star" vs. Lat. STELLAE "of the star".

Romanian	Sub semnul stelei de foc
Latin	SUB SIGNO STELLAE DE FOCO

So, yes, I eventually hope to get to this book. Who knows? Could it bring another dual-language experience, French-Romanian this time? We'll have to wait and see.