Morten St George Theory

[davidjackson]

Limiting myself solely to the Spanish, it's ungrammatical and certainly not something a native speaker would have come up with.

Urbe means "metropolis" and usually refers to the capital city. It's a very rare word (the corpus del español) finds a mere 73 usages. And you can't say "Por libre urbe". Por libre is a transitive expression which means "without obeying established custom" - you'd use it in the sense of striking off on your own, for example, but here you're missing the intransitive verb (ie ir). And you can't say por libre urbe because you're just plonking the noun in a sentence without verbs. Oh, and it's mar salada, not salina. A salina is a saltflat.


Interestingly enough, una rama prender actually means to graft a branch (prender in a botanical sense means to graft, to grow roots). Except it's backwards - should be prender una rama, even if you want to make it mean what you did. If you want to infuse it with the meaning of fire, una rama prendio [fuego]. Same with del grande abierta guerra - should be del gran guerra [i]abierta .  [/i](Abierta makes no sense here).