Danish · Verse · Dactylic hexameter

Christian Wilster

A surface-form portrait of this Odyssey: corpus scale, recurring wording, line-window variation around Greek forms, and a comparison with other hexameter verse translations.

Atlas edition year: 1837 · Statistics corpus year: 1837 · All 24 books

122,876words

10,095distinct word forms

0.0822vocabulary variety (distinct ÷ total)

27.13average sentence length

Comparison basis: other hexameter verse translations (6 peers). Each metric has its own scale. Cross-language style-group values are descriptive only.

Repeated wording

The translator’s formulas

The ten repeated phrases of three to six words that rank highest when we multiply how often each phrase appears by its length. Overlapping phrases can describe the same recurring line.

“saa han taled og” 58 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.224
“saa han taled” 76 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.224
“den sindrige konning og sagde” 43 occurrences · Od. 7.198 and 7.240
“og med bevingede ord” 48 occurrences · Od. 1.80 and 2.267
“med bevingede ord” 63 occurrences · Od. 1.80 and 2.267
“den forstandige svend telemachos” 46 occurrences · Od. 1.178 and 1.230
“den forstandige svend telemachos gav ham” 30 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.129
“forstandige svend telemachos gav ham til” 30 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.129
“svend telemachos gav ham til gjensvar” 30 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.129
“han taled og” 58 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.224

Line-window evidence

One Greek word, many choices

Each card follows one Greek word into three visibly different passages in this translation. The Greek line containing the word appears first, followed by the nearby passage in the translation. The listed nearby words show recurring context, not direct translations of the Greek word.

δῖος

dios recurring nearby word 7%

ὣς ἄρʼ ἔφη, χαῖρεν δὲ κλεηδόνι δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς
Greek line · Od. 20.120
Maler dem Meel; gid Gildet idag deres sidste maa vorde!
Translation passage · Od. 20.120 · nearby words: gid, gildet, idag, maler
ἑσταότες περὶ βωμόν. ὁ δʼ ἔγρετο δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς
Greek line · Od. 13.187
Staaende rundt om Altret, til Drotten den stærke Poseidon.
Translation passage · Od. 13.187 · nearby words: altret, drotten, poseidon, rundt
τὸν δʼ αὖτε προσέειπε πολύτλας δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς·
Greek line · Od. 14.148
Altid den naadige Herre jeg kalder ham, skjøndt han er borte.
Translation passage · Od. 14.148 · nearby words: altid, borte, herre, kalder

φίλος

philos recurring nearby word 9%

καὶ σύ, φίλος, μάλα γάρ σʼ ὁρόω καλόν τε μέγαν τε,
Greek line · Od. 1.301
Saa, min Kjære! vær kjæk! som jeg seer du er fager og voxen,
Translation passage · Od. 1.301 · nearby words: fager, kjæk, kjære, seer
ἔνθα καθέζετʼ ἔπειτα Ὀδυσσῆος φίλος υἱός.
Greek line · Od. 16.48
Løvfulde Qviste paa Gulv, og Skind han bredte derover.
Translation passage · Od. 16.48 · nearby words: bredte, derover, gulv, løvfulde
ὦ φίλος, οὐδέ τοι αὐτὸς ἐρύκεσθαι μενεαίνω·
Greek line · Od. 17.17
Værst; jeg siger nu helst mit Hjertes oprigtige Mening.
Translation passage · Od. 17.17 · nearby words: helst, hjertes, mening, oprigtige

τόξον

toxon recurring nearby word 23%

ἔργον ἐποίχεσθαι· τόξον δʼ ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει
Greek line · Od. 21.352
Røgte med Flid deres Dont! for Buen maae Mændene sørge
Translation passage · Od. 21.352 · nearby words: buen, dont, flid, maae
γυμνὸν τόξον ἔχων καὶ ἐπὶ νευρῆφιν ὀιστόν,
Greek line · Od. 11.607
Stod med sin blottede Bue, en Piil laae rede paa Strengen;
Translation passage · Od. 11.607 · nearby words: blottede, bue, laae, piil
εἰ δὴ τοῦτό γε τόξον ἀριστῆας κεκαδήσει
Greek line · Od. 21.170
Rædsomt og fælt det lyder, det harmer mig saadant at høre,
Translation passage · Od. 21.170 · nearby words: fælt, harmer, høre, lyder

πεπνυμένος

pepnymenos recurring nearby word 30%

τὸν δʼ αὖ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα·
Greek line · Od. 1.388
Og den forstandige Svend Telemachos gav ham til Gjensvar:
Translation passage · Od. 1.388 · nearby words: gjensvar
τὸν δʼ αὖ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα·
Greek line · Od. 16.112
Frækt, med umaadelig Kaadhed, og det uden Maal eller Ende.
Translation passage · Od. 16.112 · nearby words: ende, frækt, kaadhed, maal
τὸν δʼ αὖ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα·
Greek line · Od. 16.146
Jamrende lydt bestandig, saa Huden om Knoglerne skrumpes.
Translation passage · Od. 16.146 · nearby words: bestandig, huden, jamrende, knoglerne

ἀμύμονος

amymonos recurring nearby word 12%

ἱστίη τʼ Ὀδυσῆος ἀμύμονος, ἣν ἀφικάνω·
Greek line · Od. 14.159
Zeus, den øverste Gud, Odysses’s Arne, til hvilken
Translation passage · Od. 14.159 · nearby words: arne, hvilken, øverste
εἰπὲ δέ μοι Πηλῆος ἀμύμονος, εἴ τι πέπυσσαι,
Greek line · Od. 11.494
Siig mig desuden, har Intet du hørt om den ædelig Peleus,
Translation passage · Od. 11.494 · nearby words: desuden, hørt, intet, peleus
ἦ πολὺ χείρονες ἄνδρες ἀμύμονος ἀνδρὸς ἄκοιτιν
Greek line · Od. 21.325
Svagere Mænd til den kraftige Mands livsalige Hustrue
Translation passage · Od. 21.325 · nearby words: hustrue, kraftige, livsalige, mands

Statistical comparison

Against its siblings

Wilster’s complete Danish Odyssey combines hexameter with archaism, colloquial ease, and Romantic coloring, and the atlas records a long history of reprinting. The corpus contains 122876 words and 10095 distinct word forms. Its score-ranked formula list begins with “saa han taled og,” recorded 58 times; this first position does not mean it has the highest raw count. For scale within other hexameter verse translations, Voß contains 109003 words. This is a bounded comparison: the history identifies the translation’s formal setting, while the statistics locate its scale and verbal patterning among the peers actually declared in the source. These measures offer a compact view of the textual evidence available here. The emphasis remains on directly observable features of the supplied corpora. That focus keeps the comparison useful without asking the data to support more than it can.

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