historiens vingesus

English translation: the presence of history

11:49 Mar 11, 2010
Danish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Danish term or phrase: historiens vingesus
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aic
Local time: 14:51
English translation:the presence of history
Explanation:
From Gyldendals Røde Ordbøger.
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Charles Ek
United States
Local time: 08:51
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2on the wings of history
Stig Jensen
4the presence of history
Charles Ek
3 +1The echo of history
Christine Andersen
3the pulse/sense of history
Malberg


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the presence of history


Explanation:
From Gyldendals Røde Ordbøger.

Charles Ek
United States
Local time: 08:51
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
The echo of history


Explanation:
This is one of those phrases that does not have a single neat equivalent in English.

I collect solutions to the problem! (and others.)
Here are some I have used on different occasions.

Where you can re-live history
-- I used this recently of a forest trail in Sweden

Follow in the historic footsteps of XXX (in a castle or monument where XXX was involved in historic events)

Go back in history along ... (a shopping street or other site still in modern use)

The walls and pillars exude history (a castle where dramatic events occurred)

History echoes through its halls and chambers ( a stately home)

Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 14:51
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 14

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Brian Young: you are right, there are so many options. I like some of your suggestions. I guess you just need to take the whole context, and make a choice.
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51 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
on the wings of history


Explanation:
Kan især bruges som ordspil.

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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2010-03-12 13:08:10 GMT)
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http://thelikud.ning.com/profiles/blogs/prime-minister-benja...

This is used often in connection with aviation but it is also used poetically to express the passage of time. Above is a link to a speech by Benjamin Netanyahu where he quotes his brother using this expression in the last paragraph.
I also found the following title of a treatise titled:
'The Black Box of Habit on the Wings of History: Reflection on the Theory of Social Reproduction


    Reference: http://www.visitribe.dk/international/en-gb/menu/turist/over...
Stig Jensen
United States
Local time: 08:51
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Brian Young: I have heard this phrase used, but more context would help
3 hrs

agree  David Young (X): One of a number of non-aviation references: http://www.eburypublishing.co.uk/viewbook.asp?a=Alan Bennett...
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
the pulse/sense of history


Explanation:
the pulse of history/the sense of history

Another option

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-03-11 12:53:30 GMT)
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"to feel the sense of history"

Another option: "the touch of history"

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-03-11 13:38:40 GMT)
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Other possibilities: "the wind(s) of history", "the breath of history"

(more context would be helpful)

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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2010-03-12 13:11:29 GMT)
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(breathe/breathe in) the air of history

Malberg
Denmark
Local time: 14:51
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish
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