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The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel (um 1100) |
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Die Zerstörung von Da Dergas Herberge ist ein sehr altes Thema, das hier in einer Version des Hochmittelalters vorliegt. Die reiche irische Bildsprache liefert reichlich Beschreibungen der Kleidung und des Aussehens der übermenschlichen Helden. Durch die Symbolhaftigkeit der Sprache ist die Glaubwürdigkeit allerdings meines Erachtens nur dort gewährleistet, wo nebensächliches oder selbstverständliches erwähnt wir. Nichtsdestotrotz erfolgt hier eine lange Liste von Zitaten aus einem recht kurzen Text - einzig die zu eindeutig nur symbolisch gemeinten Farbangaben habe ich ausgelassen. ZitateIch las den Text in englischer Übersetzung (Dr. Whitley Stokes, 1902 bei Internet Medieval Sourcebook). Die Basis dieses Textes sind acht gälische Quellen, deren älteste um 1100 entstanden ist. Mangels einer feineren Unterteilung gebe ich nur die Unterteilung in vier Teile wieder. Das erste Stück habe ich als Beispiel der lesenswerten Bildsprache wiedergegeben. Leider wird das Stück ab der Mitte etwas zäh. Das Wort spaulds entzog sich leider der Übersetzung. Brooches habe ich mit Broschen übersetzt, obwohl Fibeln genauso korrekt gewesen wäre. Bedgowns scheinen Übermäntel für das Bett zu sein. Shirt und ähnliches habe ich meist einfach als Tunika übersetzt. Part I
Once upon a time he came over the fairgreen of Bri Leith, and he saw at the
edge of a well a woman with a bright comb of silver adorned with gold,
washing in a silver basin wherein were four golden birds and little,
bright gems of purple carbuncle in the rims of the basin. A mantle she had,
curly and purple, a beautiful cloak, and in the mantle silvery fringes
arranged, and a brooch of fairest gold. A kirtle she wore, long, hooded,
hard-smooth, of green silk, with red embroidery of gold. Marvellous clasps of
gold and silver in the kirtle on her breasts and her shoulders and spaulds
on every side. The sun kept shining upon her, so that the glistening of the
gold against the sun from the green silk was manifest to men. On her head
were two golden-yellow tresses, in each of which was a plait of four locks,
with a bead at the point of each lock.
There she was, undoing her hair to wash it, with her arms out through the
sleeve-holes of her smock.
... mantles of close cloth ...
... three horsemen ... frocks ... mantles ... bucklers ... spears ...
Part II
Gray spears over chariots: ivory-hilted swords on thighs: silvery
shields above their elbows. Half red and half white. Garments of
every color about them.
... having a long head of hair to the hollow of his polls, and a short
cloak to their buttocks. Speckled-green drawers they wore, and in their
hands were ... great clubs of thorn with bands of iron.
As long as a weaver's beam was each of her two shins, and they were as
dark as the back of a stag-beetle. A greyish, wooly mantle she wore.
A brooch of silver in his mantle, and in his hand a gold-hilted sword.
A shield with five golden circles upon it: a five-barbed javelin in his hand.
Thin rods of gold in their mantles. Bent shields of bronze they bear.
Ribbed javelins above them. An ivory-hilted sword in the hand of each.
The Picts. round heads of hair on them, even, equally long at nape and forehead.
... short ... cowls about them reaching to their elbows: long hoods were on
the cowls. ... huge swords they had, and ... shields they bore, with ...
javelins above them.
Part III
A wooden shield, dark, covered with iron
striplings ... silken mantles ... golden brooches ... golden-yellow manes
He wore a tufted purple cloak. ... A gold hilted sword in his hand;
a blood-red shield which has been speckled with rivets of white bronze
between plates of gold. A long, heavy, three-ridged spear
mantle red, many-coloured, ... a huge brooch of gold, ...
green mantles about them: tin brooches at the opening of their mantles
Earrings of gold around his ears. A mantle speckled, coloured, he wore.
short aprons they wore, of grey linen embroidered with gold: ... crimson capes
about them: ... goads of bronze in their hands
Part IV
he wears a shirt and a bright-red mantle, with a brooch of silver therein
capes they wore, with a purple loop
Englishmen. ... linen frocks somewhat short were round them: ... purple
plaids over them without brooches therein. ... broad spears, ... red curved
shields above them
... mixed plaids they wore. A pin of silver in the mantle of each of them.
... suits of armour
grey, floating mantles about them: ... pins of gold in their mantles.
... rings of crystal round their arms. A thumb-ring of gold round
each man's thumb: an ear-tie of gold round each man's ear:
a torque of silver round each man's throat. ... bags with golden faces
above them on the wall. ... rods of white silver in their hands.
bedgowns girt around them. Four cornered shields in their hands,
with bosses of gold upon them.
blue mantles around them, and ... bedgowns with red insertion over them
speckled mantles about them: ... linen shirts with red insertion: ...
golden brooches in their mantles: ... wooden darts above them on the wall."
curved shields they had, and two great pointed swords.
Red kilts they wore, and in the mantles pins of white silver.
short aprons they wore and spotted capes: they carried smiting shields.
An ivory-hilted sword ...
He wore a green cloak and a shirt with a white hood and a red insertion.
of Britain. ... Each of them wore a black cape, and there was a
white hood on each mantle, a red tuft on each hood, and an iron brooch at the
opening of every mantle, and under each man's cloak a huge black sword,
and the swords would split a hair on water. They bore shields with scalloped edges.
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