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Škrati iz gorovja Catskill
002 Catskill Gnomes
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land · Charles M. SkinnerO besedilu
Škrati iz gorovja Catskill
- Vir
- Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
- Avtor
- Charles M. Skinner
- Jezik branja
- Slovenščina
- Jezik izvirnika
- English
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 002 Catskill Gnomes
O izvirniku
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
Obsežna zgodovinska zbirka ameriških legend, ki jih je Skinner zbral in avtorsko rekonstruiral. Bralni jezik je Slovenščina, izvirnik pa prihaja iz vira Myths and Legends of Our Own Land v jeziku English.
Besedilo
Škrati iz gorovja Catskill
Za hotelom New Grand v gorovju Catskill leži gorski amfiteater, za katerega pravijo, da je kraj, o katerem so govorili Mohikanci, ko so pripovedovali o tamkajšnjih ljudeh, ki so obdelovali kovine ter imeli košate brade in prašičje oči. Iz dima njihovih kovačnic je jeseni nastajala meglica indijanskega poletja; ob polni luni pa so se po svoji navadi zbirali na robu prepada nad kotanjo ter plesali in poskakovali, dokler se noč ni skoraj iztekla. Varili so opojno pijačo, ki je vsem, ki so jo pili, skrčila telesa in napihnila glave, in ko je Hudson s svojo posadko obiskal gore, so pritlikavci njemu v čast priredili veseljačenje in ga povabili, naj poskusi njihovo pijačo. Člani posadke so odšli skrčeni in iznakaženi od čarobnega zvarka in prav takšne jih je Rip Van Winkle našel na predvečer svojega znamenitega spanca.
Izvirnik
002 Catskill Gnomes
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Behind the New Grand Hotel, in the Catskills, is an amphitheatre of mountain that is held to be the place of which the Mohicans spoke when they told of people there who worked in metals, and had bushy beards and eyes like pigs. From the smoke of their forges, in autumn, came the haze of Indian summer; and when the moon was full, it was their custom to assemble on the edge of a precipice above the hollow and dance and caper until the night was nigh worn away. They brewed a liquor that had the effect of shortening the bodies and swelling the heads of all who drank it, and when Hudson and his crew visited the mountains, the pygmies held a carouse in his honor and invited him to drink their liquor. The crew went away, shrunken and distorted by the magic distillation, and thus it was that Rip Van Winkle found them on the eve of his famous sleep.
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