[SCANLATION]LIECHTENSTEIN'S JOURNAL OF SWISS DOPINESS

[westoestlich.livejournal.com]

Translated by westoestlich and edited by konkira. The "frugality" panel turned out AMAZING!! I can't begin to fathom how much work it took! Massive love and many <3333-s.

THE BEGINNING OF AUSTRIA

Austria began as a margraviate, fortified against Magyar offenses, called the Ostmark (English: Saxon Eastern March).
The Magyars with other ethnic groups would later establish Hungary. In Hungarian, the name for the country is "Magyar Köztársaság".
Ostmark (Austria) was then at extreme military disadvantage, to the point where it all but fell under Hungarian control.
Prussia, too, began as the Margraviate of Brandenburg intended to buffer Slavic expansion, and later incorporated the territory of the Teutonic Knights.
So in a sense Austria and Prussia were both created to fight.


SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA

Austria's first predecessor states were, interestingly,  in modern Swiss territory.
The Habsburg castle, which was the seat of the Habsburg dynasty, is located in Northern Switzerland rather than Austria.
So how did it come to be, that modern Austria lies east to Switzerland, its place of origin?
At first the two would-be countries coorperated well. Then the would-be Switzerland, for good reasons, revolted against Habsburg intervention in its affairs.
Among the chaos the Habsburgs understandably hastened to move their seat to modern Austria.

During the Austro-Swiss partnership, Austria granted the region military protection in exchange for Swiss allegiance.
Though they both lay in the Holy Roman Empire, they were regarded as two separate entities.
The then head of the Habsburgs were loved among the Swiss - like "we'd go to any length to serve him."

But the honeymoon was soon over.
The new man on the Austrian throne proclaimed,

"Switzerland is my territory.
Therefore the same tax laws apply."

Switzerland fell under Austrian control. Austria even started appointing Vogts to govern Switzerland. (Remember, they were supposed to be separate entities.)
That marked the end of the Austro-Swiss partnership.

Wilhelm Tell, a Swiss hunter, was demanded by the Habsburg-appointed Vogt, Gessler, to shoot an apple off the head of his son. He succeeded in spite of tremendous mental strife, and went on to shoot Gessler himself.

It was clear that Austria and Switzerland couldn't go back where they were.
Switzerland now sought independence.
Several cantons formed the "Confoederatio Helvetica", and challenged Austrian rule with their new army.
(The place where the canton representatives took their oaths is still a tourist attraction.)

The Swiss army was nothing more than a bunch of farmers hastily donned in armors and equipped with swords.
Nobody would have expected them to stand any chance against Austria's professionals.

But the Swiss army won devastating victories against the Austrian knights.
The Swiss took advantage of their terrain and hurled huge rocks onto the enemy.
The Austrians, taken aback by such Indiana Jones-like tactics, had to face defeat.


After winning its independence, Switzerland was plagued by its lack of natural resources, the low quality of its top soil, and the mountaineous terrain which made agriculture almost impossible.
Switzerland had to import raw material and export manufactured goods. Its men served for centuries as mercenaries. Through amazing efforts Switzerland, neighbored on all sides by great powers, made a living out of almost nothing.

Austria, after a humiliating flight from Habsburg, began to feel at home in Vienna. The region, endowed with natural resources, did strike one as having the potential to become a center of East Europe. Perhaps it was the right turn for Austrian history when the Habsburgs moved to Vienna after all.
(Vienna's geographic location did make it vulnerable to Turkish attacks, though. )

The loss of Swiss partnership led to a temporary downward spiral for the Habsburgs.
Owing to a certain weak - but amazingly successful - ruler*, however, Austria began its rise to predominance in Europe.

*Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, who through a series of marriages netted Austria huge territorial prizes. Hence the famous Habsburg motto "Let others wage wars; you, fortunate Austria, marry."

Comments

[andziela.livejournal.com]

Awww, Liech is an AWESOME little sister xD
Thanks~ ♥

[picnicbird.livejournal.com]

I always loved this one. D: ♥ I love the font you guys use..!

[konkira.livejournal.com]

It's called 'Blambot Pro' from blambot.com - I'm glad you like it, because the boxes are so small (and because I am crazy) I worry that the fonts I use might not be readable sometimes.

[lemiru.livejournal.com]

Good gods, SWITZERLAND YOU SO CHEAP!
And no matter how many times I read this, the arrow in Austria's butt will always make me laugh. ALWAYS.

Thank you ~♥

[kitschisch.livejournal.com]

XD I just love Switzerland's stinginess (frugality!).

Thanks for scanlating!

[mumumugen.livejournal.com]

I loved this as much as I loved the history lesson. OH Hetalia, you're making history SO MUCH EASIER now! Every passing day I feel more like the mangaka is a bloody GENIUS.

MANY, MANY THANKS to the translator and editor! <3 You did an EXCELLENT job with this one!

[liquefying-hero.livejournal.com]

Actually, Hungary came first. Not Austria.
c:

[ekmisao.livejournal.com]

They're really cute.

And you're really cute for translating, thankies!

[bubbole.livejournal.com]

Oh my, Lietch is an adorable sister ~
And Vash, you're a cheap D:

Thanks for the translating !

[palmcj.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwww...Vash-Vash-Vash!!!
He is sooooo cute (Things are perfect when he is with Liech <3).

Thanks for scanlating this. =D

[konkira.livejournal.com]

Yay! Much love to you for translating ...but so much hate for that panel! I swear! It's not like those shapes even make sense - even Switzerland looks weirded out by them! Haha :)

[kataankoryu.livejournal.com]

Aw... It's so sad when the countries see an older country treating a new one the way they were once treated...

O_o Did that make sense?

[ihasachezburger.livejournal.com]

'taken aback by such Indiana Jones-like tactics'

I approve of this tactic.

[polandlithuania.livejournal.com]

That's adorable! Thanks for your hard work!

[lachrimaavon.livejournal.com]

o: Thank you for scanlating this one!

But there's just one issue...."Servus" means goodbye, not hello. x____x

Though I'm still happy you translated this comic. :3 Vash = win. xDD

[tuica.livejournal.com]

actually, like the Italian "ciao", it means both. though honestly i've heard it used more often for "hello." there's other languages in which this Latinism is used only for goodbye, though, so you're right there, just not in Austrian German.

[samyswitzerland.livejournal.com]

As an exchange student in Switzerland right now . . . this was EPICALLY hilarious.

(though we make fun of LIECHTENSTEIN way too much. XD. XD.)

[gabriela-gosden.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but it says bandwidth exceeded OTL

[phantasiagirl.livejournal.com]

A-AUSTRIAAAA...♥♥♥

_{Was that him when he was little...? ♥}

[hzuki.livejournal.com]

*w* IT IS! OMG he was so adorable!♥♥♥

[mikyu.livejournal.com]

cute :) thanks for scanlating!

but ... isn't that strange? switzerland fell under Astria's control ... bevore switzerland was founded?

[starlinginferno.livejournal.com]

I can't see the pictures. It says bandwidth exceeded. Is it just for me? T_T

[afilovejade.livejournal.com]

Nope, I get the same message. >.<

[cristiline.livejournal.com]

So am I! :(

[greatcloudninja.livejournal.com]

If you click on the images you can scroll through them on Photobucket--they're in the correct order, just click to the right. <3

[eeveelyn.livejournal.com]

I see Bandwidth exceeded as well.

[dany-tan.livejournal.com]

you can put again the chap? please~ ;O;

[zero-rechter.livejournal.com]

h-hey, something happened with this!

could you please re-upload it?

[greatcloudninja.livejournal.com]

It doesn't need to be re-uploaded. If you click on it, it will still let you look at it on Photobucket.

[arella-seraph.livejournal.com]

I DIED and went to Heaven upon seeing baby Switzerland and Austria... So bloody adorable...

[chocoriderix.livejournal.com]

I read that a reason why the Swiss militia also defeated Austrian forces was that at the same time, the Templar knights had been driven out of France. Since they were accustomed to guarding pilgrims through the Swiss territory and onward into the holy lands, many of them fled to Switzerland where their enemies were unequipped to follow them. So an amount (I'm not sure how many) of the Swiss militia were trained hastily by those refugee French knights.

[ariadnechan.livejournal.com]

ohh almos all the links are broken can you upload this again please!!!!?????

[sojiroisabeast.livejournal.com]

Liechtenstein's so cute, just like her big brother XD Ah, even if I had a lot of money (which I DON'T) I'd still buy things cheap...

[ulqui-luvs-kei.livejournal.com]

*hug vash* Poor liecht is moritfied that the guy thought she was a boy!!*hugs her too*

[picaq.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I know the slightly broader story or Guilliame Tell. I played the overture in 9th grade and I loved the song!

[hananiji.livejournal.com]

Aww, Liet is adorable!! ^^
I love how Prussia just pops up randomly out of now where xDDD

[mitsukirox101.livejournal.com]

"Licked by Hungary again!?" So just by licking, Austria got beat up with all those scratches on him? wut? XD

Lol, I feel just like Vash with the whole Frugality thing, I didn't even know frugality was a word, one day I was thinking about "Frugal" and I was like "hey frugality~"

[kocho-chan.livejournal.com]

OMG Prussia XD
lol Everyone's so cute in this one XP

[polkadotae.livejournal.com]

Liechtenstien's hairstyle: I want it.

Little Austria- SOOO CUTE! XD *Fangirls*

[thesikorsky.livejournal.com]

"FRUGALITY IS THE HIGHEST OF VIRTUES"

Oh lord, I love these two. XD

[shinichan13.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to use this for studying Switzerland in French class.

Sides' it's just so funnn~~~~