Christmas songs-Latin style

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Rudolphus Reno

reno erat Rudolphus,
nasum rubrum habebat;
si quando hunc videbas,
hunc candere tu dicas.

omnes renores alii
semper hunc deridebant;
cum misero Rudolpho
in ludo non ludebant.

Sanctus Nicholas dixit
nocte nebulae,
“Rudolphe, naso claro
nonne carum tu duces?”

tum renores clamabant,
“Rudolphe, delectus es?
cum naso rubro claro
historia descendes!”

Tinniat Tintinabulum

vives glacies, nox puertia!
risus decet nunc, decent carmina!
laetos iuvat nos ire per agros!
trahe fert velociter; cachinemus nos!

chorus
tinniat, tinniat, tintinabulum!
labimur in glacie post equum curtum!
tinniat, tinniat, tintinabulum!
labimur in glacie post equum curtam!

me nuper miserum temptavit lunae lux,
mox assidebat mihi puella facti dux!
vecti subito nivis cumulos-
caballus est perterritus et tunc eversi nos!

chorus

solum scintillat, nive candidum,
repetatur nunc concentus carminum!
canities absit morusa omnibus;
puellulas cum pueris delectat hic cursus

chorus



Does anyone know of any good reciepes I could use for Saturnalia? :smiley:

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The Rudolphus song is adorable :smiley: where did you get it?
I don’t know of any “ancient recipes” but you could just make a [u]Yule Log[/u]

teehee, I think Greek looks like christmas tree garlands so that’s what people are going to get on cards, trees covered in lit-up Greek for “Doesn’t the Greek language look like Saturnalia garlands?”

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lol, my teacher gave both of those songs to us in Latin I two years ago. I think he made them up himself.

He also gave us the Tigger Song to sing while we were digging for the Archaeology project but I will save that for another time. :wink:

Thanks for the Yule Log reciepe, I might use it, but not for Saturnalia. I have to make something “vaguely Mediterranean.” :slight_smile:

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there’s a fair few latin carols already: “in dulci jubilo”, “gaudete”, “personent hodie”…

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there’s a fair few latin carols already: “in dulci jubilo”, “gaudete”, “personent hodie”…

shrugs nothing wrong with that. :smiley:

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Beautiful Ruldolphus Reno.
When I saw Hrodulf Readnosa I thought I’d love it the more if I could sing it. This latin version is cantable!

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roflmao, “That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils” Litotes! wonderful! :laughing:

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here’s one more, it’s not very Christmas-y but it’s sort of from a christmas song (Latin teacher made it up!):

(2x)
felix navigat,
felix navigat,
felix navigat,
per undas mare periculosas!

volo vobis felix iter
volo vobis felix iter
volo vobis felix iter
faciendum per unam corde!


I just posted that from memory so if the last line is wrong please help correct it. :smiley:

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hee! rudolphus was wonderful! its funny to translate it literally and it comes out sounded very formal! well done!
:laughing: