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Stari kamniti mlin
152 The Old Stone Mill
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land · Charles M. SkinnerO besedilu
Stari kamniti mlin
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- Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
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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.
Besedilo
Stari kamniti mlin
Če okrogli stolp v Newportu ni bil mlin na veter Benedicta Arnolda ali katera od številnih drugih stvari, za katere so ga imeli, je verjetno ostanek iz časa, ko so v tej deželi prebivali Thorwald in njegovi nordijski možje. Potem ko so leta 1007 pluli vzdolž obale Wonderstrands (Cape Cod), so zgradili mesto, ki ga zgodovinarji poznajo — četudi ga v svojih zgodovinah ne omenjajo — kot Norumbego, izgubljeno mesto Nove Anglije. Zdaj domnevajo, da je mesto stalo ob reki Charles, blizu Walthama v Massachusettsu, kjer bodo morda postavili spomenik, vendar verjamejo tudi, da so ti pomorščaki prišli do okolice Newporta na Rhode Islandu. Ko je bil ta stolp — med ljudmi znan kot stari kamniti mlin — zgrajen, je imel videc iz plemena Narragansett videnje, v katerem je uzrl, da bo indijanski rod izginil s te celine, ko se bo zrušil zadnji ostanek stavbe in ne bo ostal kamen na kamnu. Zdi se, da se je njegovo iztrebljanje res začelo, ko so si belci prilastili obalo, in usodo staroselcev ni težko razbrati.
Izvirnik
152 The Old Stone Mill
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If the round tower at Newport was not Benedict Arnold's wind-mill, and any one or two of several other things, it is probably a relic of the occupancy of this country by Thorwald and his Norsemen. After coasting Wonderstrands (Cape Cod), in the year 1007, they built a town that is known to historians--if not in their histories--as Norumbega, the lost city of New England. It is now fancied that the city stood on the Charles River, near Waltham, Massachusetts, where a monument may be erected, but it is also believed that they reached the neighborhood of Newport, Rhode Island. After this tower--popularly called the old stone mill-was built, a seer among the Narragansetts had a vision in which he foresaw that when the last remnant of the structure had fallen, and not one stone had been left on another, the Indian race would vanish from this continent. The work of its extermination seems, indeed, to have begun with the possession of the coast by white men, and the fate of the aborigines is easily read.
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