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Myths and Legends of Our Own Land · Charles M. SkinnerO besedilu
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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.
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Izvor mnogih nenavadnih zemljepisnih imen je postal predmet golih ugibanj, kar je še toliko večja škoda, saj zbujajo tako slikovite predstave. Radi bi na primer vedeli, kako sta Burnt Coat in Smutty Nose dobila svoji imeni. Konglomerat, ki leži raztresen po poljih južno od Bostona, domačini poznajo kot roxburyjski pudingov kamen; po besedah dr. Holmesa so te skalne gmote kosi pudinga, velikega kot kupola državnega parlamenta, ki ga je velikanova družina v navalu jeze razmetala naokrog in je okamenel tam, kjer je padel. A zaradi njegovega videza bi mu v vsakem primeru rekli pudingov kamen. Dogodek, po katerem je čer Norman's Woe dobila ime, se ni ohranil v zapisih, čeprav je znano, da sta se gospodar Norman in njegov sin tam naselila v sedemnajstem stoletju. To legendo je skali podaril Longfellow, ki opisuje brodolom v divjanju zimskega viharja leta 1680 — brodolom ladje Hesperus pod poveljstvom Richarda Normana, po katerem je naslednje jutro naplavilo na obalo truplo neznanega lepega dekleta, odetega v led in privezanega na zlomljen jambor.
Enega najbolj nenavadnih primerov, kako se je v imenu ohranila pomenljiva besedna zveza, pa najdemo v legendi o rtu Point Judith na Rhode Islandu, v nedolžni besedni igri. Pred približno dvema stoletjema je vihar v dežju in megli gnal neko ladjo proti obali. Kapitanove oči so bile stare in slabotne, zato je hčer Judith poklical, naj stoji ob njem pri krmilu, medtem ko je ladjo krmaril čez peneče se valove. Nenadoma je vzkliknila: »Kopno, oče! Vidim kopno!« »V kateri smeri?« je vprašal. Toda tega, kar mu je opisovala, ni mogel videti, bučanje vetra pa je preglasilo njen glas, zato je zavpil: »Pokaži, Judith! Pokaži!« Dekle je pokazalo v smer, kjer je videlo lomljenje valov, in stari pomorščak je spremenil smer ter ladjo rešil pred brodolomom. Ko je prispel v pristanišče, je povedal zgodbo o hčerini prisebnosti, drugi kapitani pa so pozneje, ko so pluli mimo rta, tega poimenovali Point Judith.
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153 Origin of a Name
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
The origin of many curious geographical names has become an object of mere surmise, and this is the more the pity because they suggest such picturesque possibilities. We would like to know, for instance, how Burnt Coat and Smutty Nose came by such titles. The conglomerate that strews the fields south of Boston is locally known as Roxbury pudding-stone, and, according to Dr. Holmes, the masses are fragments of a pudding, as big as the State-house dome, that the family of a giant flung about, in a fit of temper, and that petrified where it fell. But that would have been called pudding-stone, anyway, from its appearance. The circumstance that named the reef of Norman's Woe has passed out of record, though it is known that goodman Norman and his son settled there in the seventeenth century. It is Longfellow who has endowed the rock with this legend, for he depicts a wreck there in the fury of a winter storm in 1680--the wreck of the Hesperus, Richard Norman, master, from which went ashore next morning the body of an unknown and beautiful girl, clad in ice and lashed to a broken mast.
But one of the oddest preservations of an apposite in name is found in the legend of Point Judith, Rhode Island, an innocent double entendre. About two centuries ago a vessel was driving toward the coast in a gale, with rain and mist. The skipper's eyes were old and dim, so he got his daughter Judith to stand beside him at the helm, as he steered the vessel over the foaming surges. Presently she cried, “Land, father! I see land!” “Where away?” he asked. But he could not see what she described, and the roar of the wind drowned her voice, so he shouted, “Point, Judith! Point!” The girl pointed toward the quarter where she saw the breakers, and the old mariner changed his course and saved his ship from wreck. On reaching port he told the story of his daughter's readiness, and other captains, when they passed the cape in later days, gave to it the name of Point Judith.
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