愛馬

[Lu]

A song from something I'm translating:

離開家鄉好幾個月了

It's been months since I left home

我決定與我的愛馬同生死

I want to live and die by ... side

在沙場勇往直前越山過河

We travel across mountains and rivers

手抓住疆繩與愛馬合而為一

In my hand I hold the rope that unites me with ...

Most of it is not much of a problem, but I'm not sure what to do with 愛馬. Is it the name of a girl, presumably in some minority language? I tried googling it but all that came up was people loving 馬英九, so that wasn't much help.

[skylee]

beloved horse

my beloved horse

Hermes (説笑的啦）

Looks like it's a song about wandering.

[skylee]

btw, it is 韁繩 (rein) not 疆繩.

[Lu]

Thanks for your swift reply! Also on the reins thing, the original got that wrong then.

[gato]

Or maybe a horse named Emma.

[Lu]

More like a ma named Em, then.

I had thought of 'beloved horse', but thought it was a bit too weird, but actually it does make sense. Especially since there are reins involved.

[zhaonanding]

Just simply my horse or my dear horse is OK.

[skylee]

You might also wish to put 沙場 back to your translation.

[Lu]

I would, but it's for subtitles, so it has to be at most 40 characters (including spaces) per line, that's why I took it out. The last line ended up being too long as well, so now I made it:

離開家鄉好幾個月了

It's been months since I left home

我決定與我的愛馬同生死

I want to live by my horse's side

在沙場勇往直前越山過河

We travel across mountains and rivers

手抓住疆繩與愛馬合而為一

Me holding the reins of my beloved horse

I like subtitles, it's really a puzzle sometimes to be precise yet concise.