Английский язык с Конаном-варваром

Not so!’ cried an older man, whose eyes were wild and weird. ‘It was Atali, the daughter of Ymir, the frost giant! To fields of the dead she comes and shows herself to the dying! Myself when a boy I saw her, when I lay half slain on the bloody field of Wolfraven. I saw her walk among the dead in the snows, her naked body gleaming like ivory and her golden hair unbearably bright in the moon light. I lay and howled like a dying dog because I could not crawl after her. She lures men from stricken fields into the wastelands to be slain by her brothers, the ice giants, who lay men’s red hearts smoking on Ymir’s board. The Cimmerian has seen Atali, the frost giant’s daughter!’

‘Bah!’ grunted Horsa (ба! = чушь! — проворчал Хорса). ‘Old Gorm’s mind was touched in his youth by a sword cut on the head (ум старого Горма был задет в /его/ молодости мечевой раной по голове = затронула рана от меча на голове). Conan was delirious from the fury of the battle (Конан бредил от ярости битвы); look how his helmet is dinted (посмотрите, как его шлем помят). Any of those blows might have addled his brain (любой из этих ударов мог повлиять (на) его мозг; to addle — сбивать с толку, запутывать). It was a hallucination he followed into the wastes (это была галлюцинация, (за которой) он последовал в пустоши). He is from the South; what does he know of Atali (он с юга; что он знает об Атали)?’

youth [ju:], south [sau], mind [mand]

‘Bah!’ grunted Horsa. ‘Old Gorm’s mind was touched in his youth by a sword cut on the head. Conan was delirious from the fury of the battle; look how his helmet is dinted. Any of those blows might have addled his brain. It was a hallucination he followed into the wastes. He is from the South; what does he know of Atali?’

‘You speak truth, perhaps,’ muttered Conan (ты говоришь правду, возможно, — пробормотал Конан). ‘It was all strange and weird — by Crom (это было все странно и сверхъестественно — (клянусь) Кромом)!’

He broke off, glaring at the object that still dangled from his clenched left fist (он прервал (разговор) = замолчал, глядя на предмет, который все еще свисал из его сжатого левого кулака). The others gaped silently at the veil he held up — a wisp of gossamer that was never spun by human distaff (остальные глазели молча на покрывало, (которое) он поднял — клочок газа, который был никогда спряден человеческими пряхами = который никогда не пряли человеческие руки).

truth [tru:], others [dz], distaff ['dst: f]

‘You speak truth, perhaps,’ muttered Conan. ‘It was all strange and weird — by Crom!’

He broke off, glaring at the object that still dangled from his clenched left fist. The others gaped silently at the veil he held up — a wisp of gossamer that was never spun by human distaff.

The Curse of the Monolith (Проклятие монолита)

The sheer cliffs of dark stone closed about Conan the Cimmerian like the sides of a trap (отвесные утесы из темного камня сомкнулись вокруг Конана- киммерийца, как стены ловушки). He did not like the way their jagged peaks loomed against the few faint stars (он не полюбил = ему не понравилось, как: «способ» их зубчатые пики маячили против = на фоне немногих слабых звезд), which glittered like the eyes of spiders down upon the small camp on the flat floor of the valley (которые сверкали, как глаза пауков внизу = направленные вниз на маленький лагерь на ровном дне долины). Neither did he like the chill, uneasy wind that whistled across the stony heights and prowled about the campfire (тоже не полюбил он = не понравился ему и стылый тревожный ветер, который свистел по каменистым вершинам и рыскал вокруг лагерного/бивачного костра). It caused the flames to leap and flicker, sending monstrous black shadows writhing across the rough stone walls of the nearer valley side (он заставлял языки пламени скакать и мигать, испуская черные тени, извивающиеся по грубым каменным стенам ближайшей стены долины; to cause — вызывать, служить причиной).

either [ad], writhing [rad], nearer [nr]

The sheer cliffs of dark stone closed about Conan the Cimmerian like the sides of a trap. He did not like the way their jagged peaks loomed against the few faint stars, which glittered like the eyes of spiders down upon the small camp on the flat floor of the valley. Neither did he like the chill, uneasy wind that whistled across the stony heights and prowled about the campfire. It caused the flames to leap and flicker, sending monstrous black shadows writhing across the rough stone walls of the nearer valley side.