Translation for "oft lange" to english

Oft lange

• often for a long time
• often long

Translation examples

often long

Túrin liebte seine Mutter, denn sie sprach ehrlich und offen mit ihm, während er seinen Vater nur selten sah; denn Húrin war mit dem Heer Fingons, das die östlichen Grenzen Hithlums bewachte, oft lange von zu Hause fort. Kam er heim, beunruhigte und verwirrte er den Sohn durch seine schnelle Redeweise und seine Sprache, die voller fremdartiger Wörter, Scherze und Andeutungen war.
He loved his mother, for her speech to him was forthright and plain; but his father he saw little, for Húrin was often long away from home with the host of Fingon that guarded Hithlum’s eastern borders, and when he returned his quick speech, full of strange words and jests and half-meanings, bewildered Túrin and made him uneasy. At that time all the warmth of his heart was for Lalaith his sister;