Translation for "hansestadt" to english
Hansestadt
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Das zweite der beiden Ereignisse, die George Smiley aus seinem Ruhestand holten, fand ein paar Wochen später im Frühherbst desselben Jahres statt: nicht in Paris, sondern in Hamburg, einstmals Freie und Hansestadt, jetzt fast erdrückt unter der Last seines Wohlstands;
TWO The second of the two events that brought George Smiley from his retirement occurred a few weeks after the first, in early autumn of the same year : not in Paris at all, but in the once ancient, free, and Hanseatic city of Hamburg, now almost pounded to death by the thunder of its own prosperity;
Da waren uralte, gelbe, zerrissene Briefe, welche sorgende Mütter an ihre in der Fremde arbeitenden Söhne geschrieben hatten, und die vom Empfänger mit der Bemerkung versehen waren: »Wohl empfangen und den Inhalt beherzigt.« Da waren Bürgerbriefe mit Wappen und Siegel der freien und Hansestadt, Policen, Gratulationspoeme und Patenbriefe. Da waren diese rührenden Geschäftsbriefe, die etwa der Sohn an den Vater und Kompagnon aus Stockholm oder Amsterdam geschrieben, die mit einer Beruhigung in betreff des ziemlich gesicherten Weizens die dringende Bitte verbanden, sogleich Frau und Kinder zu grüßen … Da war ein besonderes Tagebuch des Konsuls über seine Reise durch England und Brabant, ein Heft, auf dessen Umschlag ein Kupfer das Edinburger Schloß mit dem Graßmarkte darstellte.
There were very old, yellowed, tattered letters that worried mothers had written their sons working in foreign lands, on which those who received them had noted: “Received and taken to heart.” There were certificates of citizenship, with the crest and seal of the free Hanseatic city, insurance policies, poems of congratulation, and requests to serve as a godparent. There were business letters, like those a son had written from Stockholm or Amsterdam to his father and partner, containing, along with the reassurance that the wheat was safe and secure, a touching request to extend greetings to his wife and children at once. There was a special diary the consul had kept during his trip through England and the Brabant, its cover displaying an etching of Edinburgh’s castle and Grassmarket.
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