The World Of HOL

[Joe Maroni]

in Bavarian:

De Hoie des Lichts

bavarian is a german accent...although some people don´t accept Bavaria as a german state...

[Sune Salminen]

And still no Danish translation!

In Danish, we use the French (I think?!) word "entré" for "hall" so I guess it would end up as "Entré Af Lys" in Danish.

It doesn't feel comfortable to me but at least it's a correct translation.

Some people (mainly evil stepmothers) just use the English word Hall. So it could be "Hall Af Lys" as well.

Dizzy, help me out here man...we could say it's "Bøsse Af Lys" and see how far we get with that.

[so.]

The Danish word for hall is "sal" or "hal", I think. Don't confuse it with entré. Note, I'm not Danish so I'm just guessing. How about "Lysets sal"?

[Sune Salminen]

In Danish, a "sal" is a very large room inside somebody's house where you might have a party (festsal) or put a lot of people eating together (spisesal).

"hal" is even larger, usually it's an entire building, where you might do sporting events (sportshal) or it can house a factory, be used for storage or the farmer puts all his machines there (fabrikshal, lagerhal, maskinhal).

Both are definitely wrong words to use here.

If the "Hall" in "Hall of Light" is supposed to mean the first room you enter when coming in through the front door of a house, "entré" or "hall" are correct words.

I'm not confusing anything, I've been Danish for 33 years..so I have some experience with the language..

[CodyJarrett]

In the context of the HOL quotation I'd say that the "hall" is more like a large room than an entrance to a building.

[Sune Salminen]

Aren't you contradicting yourself then?

Originally Posted by CodyJarrett

'Hall' in this case means an 'entrance hall' e.g. from the Latin 'Aula', which means the entrance to a Roman house.

So, you've been travelling through obscurity and darkness (ignorance), until you finally arrive at the entrance of light (enlightenment).

The Hall of Light would literally mean "The entrance of enlightenment" - this might be a better way to translate in some languages.

Is it a hall or an entrance hall?

[Zetr0]

"The entrance of enlightenment" or "hall of light"

they both sound awesome...

but if its worth any i see "Hall of Light" as like "Hall of Hero's" or "Room of Light"

but hey

"the entrance of enlightenment" could read something like "Foyer of Enlightenment" kinda reads like your waiting to be admitted.

[CodyJarrett]

Originally Posted by Sune Salminen

Aren't you contradicting yourself then?
Is it a hall or an entrance hall?

Hmmm, you're right. These days I'd probably see it as the inner room rather than the entrance hall.

[Sune Salminen]

If translated to "hal af lys", it means it's a hall that's made of light.

For the average Danish person, this is as exciting and evocative as saying "door of wood".

The Danish language (and mentality) has a knack for pulling everything down to earth "where it belongs".

I say to hell with it and call it "Hal af Lys" anyway!

S

[Shoonay]

In polish, to be more precise, that would be:

Sala Światła

That's with the special polish characters.

Originally Posted by Sune Salminen

If translated to "hal af lys", it means it's a hall that's made of light.

For the average Danish person, this is as exciting and evocative as saying "door of wood".

The Danish language (and mentality) has a knack for pulling everything down to earth "where it belongs".

I say to hell with it and call it "Hal af Lys" anyway!

S

Why not go with 'Lysets Sal'?
Sounds better and doesn't smell as much of 80's disco like 'Hal af Lys' does

[Mangar]

I asked my computer what Hall of Light meant in it's language and it responded with:

Binary: 01001000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

Hex: 48 61 6c 6c 20 6f 66 20 4c 69 67 68 74

Octal: 0110 0141 0154 0154 0040 0157 0146 0040 0114 0151 0147 0150 0164

I know.. Its late and I'm bored.