GR translation: across the heath over the giant grave-mounds

[Mike Jing]

That's how I understood it as well. Thanks, Mike.


On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 10:36 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> The mounds are on the heath, the rider goes over them rather than round.
>
> On 20/01/2026 05:30, Mike Jing wrote:
> > V747.5-12, P761.36-762.4   He appears first with boots and insignia
> shining
> > as the rider on a black horse, charging in a gallop neither he nor horse
> > can control, across the heath over the giant grave-mounds, scattering the
> > black-faced sheep, while dark stands of juniper move dreamily,
> > death-loving, across his path in a parallax of unhurrying fatality,
> > presiding as monuments do over the green and tan departure of summer, the
> > dust-colored lowlands and at last the field-gray sea, a prairie of sea
> > darkening to purple where the sunlight comes through, in great circles,
> > spotlights on a dancing-floor.
> >
> > The published translation thinks the phrase "over the giant grave-mounds"
> > modifies "the heath", meaning the heath is on the other side of the giant
> > grave-mounds. Is that actually correct? Somehow it doesn't feel right to
> me.
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