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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
- Avtor
- Charles M. Skinner
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- 149 Love and Treason
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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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Plemena, ki so naseljevala Nantucket in Martha's Vineyard, preden so se tam naselili belci, so bila nenehno v vojni, in prebivalci zahodnega otoka so nekoč sklenili presenetiti Nantuckečane ter jih pobiti čim več, še preden bi se ti utegnili oborožiti ali pripraviti na boj. Napad naj bi izvedli pred svitom, ob uri, ko bi njihove predvidene žrtve še spale v vigvamih, toda ko so tiho priveslali do sovražne obale, medtem ko so zvezde še vztrajale na zahodnem nebu, so bojevniki presenečeni ugotovili, da je sovražnik buden in jih pričakuje z loki in sulicami v rokah. Nadaljevati bi bilo samomorilsko, zato so se zmedeni in malodušni vrnili v svoje vasi. Šele čez nekaj let so izvedeli, kako je bil tabor posvarjen: ko sta plemeni že živeli v miru, se je eden izmed njihovih mladeničev poročil z dekletom z Nantucketa, v katero je bil že dolgo zaljubljen, in priznal, da se je noč pred napadom skrivaj odpravil na obalo, prešel na Nantucket po peščenem pasu, ki je tedaj povezoval otoka in se je razkril le ob oseki, poiskal svojo ljubljeno ter jo posvaril pred napadom, da vsaj ona ne bi bila ubita; nato pa se je v divjem teku, medtem ko so mu valovi naraščajoče plime pljuskali ob noge, vrnil k svojim ljudem, ki njegove odsotnosti niso opazili. Zjutraj se je odpravil z resnim in nedolžnim obrazom in bil ob pogledu na oboroženega sovražnika prav tako presenečen kakor vsi drugi.
Izvirnik
149 Love and Treason
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The tribes that inhabited Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard before the whites settled the country were constantly at war, and the people of the western island once resolved to surprise those of Nantucket and slay as many as possible before they could arm or organize for battle. The attack was to be made before daybreak, at an hour when their intended victims would be asleep in their wigwams, but on rowing softly to the hostile shore, while the stars were still lingering in the west, the warriors were surprised at finding the enemy alert and waiting their arrival with bows and spears in hand. To proceed would have been suicidal, and they returned to their villages, puzzled and disheartened. Not for some years did they learn how the camp had been apprised, but at the end of that time, the two tribes being at peace, one of their young men married a girl of Nantucket, with whom he had long been in love, and confessed that on the night preceding the attack he had stolen to the beach, crossed to Nantucket on a neck of sand that then joined the islands, and was uncovered only at low tide, sought his mistress, warned her of the attack, that she, at least, might not be killed; then, at a mad run, with waves of the rising tide lapping his feet, he returned to his people, who had not missed him. He set off with a grave and innocent face in the morning, and was as much surprised as any one when he found the enemy in arms.
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