William Wallace's Speech before the Battle of Stirling in Braveheart

The original movie lines are orange.
The Toki Pona translation is white.
During the speech, two soldiers from
the crowd cut in to say something;
these two lines are marked in blue.

Listen to this speech in Toki Pona.

Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace.
jan Sukosi o, mi jan Wilijanwala.

William Wallace is seven feet tall.
jan Wilijanwala li suli mute.

Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse.
a. mi sona. ona li moli e jan mute. ona li lon la ona li pana e seli tan oko ona li pana e wawa tan lupa monsi ona li moli e jan Inli.

I AM William Wallace!
mi jan Wilijanwala kin!

And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny.
mi lukin e kulupu utala Sukosi suli. ona li wile weka e nasin Inli ike.

You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What would you do without freedom? Will you fight?
sina kama sama jan ken. sina jan ken kin. sina ken ala la sina pali e seme? sina wile ala wile utala?

Fight? Against that? No, we will run; and we will live.
mi mute li wile ala utala e ni. mi tawa la mi moli ala.

Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live -- at least a while.
pona. sina utala la sina ken moli. sina tawa la sina moli ala. ... tenpo lili la sina moli ala.

And dying in your beds many years from now,
tenpo mute li pini. sina kama moli lon supa lape sina.

would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that
sina pilin ala pilin e ni?: tenpo suno ali li lili. sina wile ala wile e ni taso?: sina lon ma ni li ken toki e ni tawa jan Inli:

they may take our lives, but they'll never take... our freedom!
sina ken moli e mi. taso sina ken ala anpa e ... ken mi!

Alba gu bra!
ma Sukosi a!

 

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