6 Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1 How a White Deer Appeared Before King Arthur, How Sir Gawaine and His Brother Gaheris Went After It, and What Happened to Them on That Quest This final part shall tell the story of Sir Gawaine, who, as you have seen, was sometimes rough and harsh in his manner, but in whom a gentle nature and great loyalty also lay.

第一章一只白鹿是如何出现在亚瑟王面前的，高文爵士和他的兄弟加赫里斯是如何追捕它的，以及他们在追捕过程中发生了什么。这最后一部分将讲述高文爵士的故事，正如你所看到的，他的举止有时粗暴粗暴，但他也有温柔的本性和极大的忠诚。

One day while King Arthur and his court were picnicking on the grounds, a delicate white deer burst through some distant trees, followed quickly by a handsome white dog. After a bit of a chase out in the open, the terrified deer ran back into the forest, the dog nipping closely at his heels. Before the court even had a chance to turn back to their food, two other creatures burst noisily from the woods. They were a knight and a lady, dressed as if for a hunt. Finally, a third creature appeared. He was a single knight on a black horse and he seemed angry. Charging at the other knight and striking him with his sword, he grabbed the lady, threw her yelling across his saddle, and rode back into the forest. After a moment, two esquires came, picked up the wounded knight, and led the horses away. As all of this had taken place quite quickly and some distance away from the picnic site,

一天，亚瑟王和他的臣子们正在院子里野餐，远处的树林里窜出一只娇嫩的白鹿，后面紧跟着一只漂亮的白狗。 在外面的空地上追逐了一阵之后，受惊的鹿跑回了森林，狗紧跟在它的后面。 他们还没来得及转身去吃东西，又有两只动物从树林里大声地冲了出来。 他们是一名骑士和一名女士，打扮得像是要去打猎。 最后，第三个生物出现了。 他是骑着一匹黑马的单身骑士，看上去很生气。 他冲向另一个骑士，用剑刺向他，然后抓住那位女士，把她的叫声扔到马鞍上，骑回森林。 过了一会儿，两个侍从走过来，抱起受伤的骑士，牵着马走了。 由于这一切发生得太快，而且离野餐地点很远，

no one in the court was able to step in. However, King Arthur asked Sir Gawaine to investigate and to take his brother, Gaheris, as his esquire. The first thing Gawaine and Gaheris found were two knights fighting. It turned out that the knights were brothers, fighting over that very same deer and dog. They had started fighting because one brother was hoping the deer would escape the dog and the other that the dog would catch and kill the deer. Then they'd started to argue over who would be the one to rescue the lady and they were still at it. Gawaine and Gaheris left those knights and continued on their adventure. The next thing the brothers found was a large castle. The dog lay dead at their feet, hit several times by arrows. Gawaine loved dogs and blamed the deer. When the deer ran by again a moment later, Gawaine caught and killed it. Having

法庭上没有人能够介入。 然而，亚瑟王要求高文爵士进行调查，并让他的兄弟加赫里斯做他的侍从。 高文和加赫里斯首先看到的是两个骑士在打架。 原来这两个骑士是兄弟，为了同一只鹿和狗而打架。 他们开始打架，因为一个兄弟希望鹿能逃脱狗的追捕，另一个兄弟希望狗能抓住鹿并杀死它。 然后他们开始争论谁应该去救那位女士，他们还在争论。 高文和加赫里斯离开了那些骑士，继续他们的冒险。 兄弟俩接下来发现的是一座大城堡。 狗死在他们脚边，被箭射中了好几次。 高文喜欢狗，把责任推给了鹿。 过了一会儿，鹿又跑过，高文抓住并杀死了它。 有

seen this from their windows, the lord and lady of the castle came rushing out. "Oh, what have you done to my beloved deer?" cried the lady, falling weeping upon the ground. Gawaine apologized, but when the lord hit him with his sword, he found himself surprised and angry. Although the lord begged for mercy, Gawaine raised his own sword to slay him. What happened next, however, Gawaine didn't intend. As he swung, the lady moved in front to defend her husband. Gawaine tried to turn his swing but his sword still grazed the lady's neck, causing her to bleed and fall down as if as dead as the deer. Thankfully, she did not die. The lord was so grateful that he forgave all and invited Gawaine and Gaheris to dinner. Over the meal, the lord told them the story of his brother, who had taken his wife's sister as his

城堡的主人和夫人从窗户里看到了这一切，就冲了出来。 “哦，你对我心爱的鹿做了什么？”老太太哭着倒在地上叫道。 高文道了歉，但当领主用剑打他时，他发现自己既惊讶又愤怒。 尽管领主求饶，高文还是举起剑来杀了他。 然而，接下来发生的事情并不是高文想要的。 当他挥棒的时候，这位女士走到前面保护她的丈夫。 高文试图转动他的秋千，但他的剑仍然擦过这位女士的脖子，导致她流血，倒在地上，就像鹿一样死了。 谢天谢地，她没有死。 领主非常感激，他原谅了所有人，并邀请高文和加赫里斯共进晚餐。 吃饭时，领主给他们讲了他哥哥的故事，他哥哥把他妻子的妹妹夺去了

own wife. A strange woman, he said, dressed all in red and with red hair, had given one sister the deer and the other the dog. The sisters had been very happy, but, almost immediately, the chase began and the couples clashed. The lord confessed that he had been the angry knight in black who had hit his brother and kidnapped his brother's wife. He had done it, he said, out of revenge and for the honor of his own wife and her deer. Gawaine was suspicious. The woman the lord described sounded like the witch Vivien, famous for making mischief such as this for pure fun. "Since both deer and dog are now dead," he said, "let your fight with your brother also die." The lord agreed. When Gawaine returned to Camelot, however, and described to Arthur and Guinevere all that had happened, Queen Guinevere decided he was the

自己的妻子。他说，有个奇怪的女人，穿一身红衣服，长着红头发，把鹿和狗分别给了一个妹妹和另一个妹妹。 姐妹俩一直很开心，但几乎是在同一时间，追逐开始了，两对情侣发生了冲突。 公爵坦白说，他就是那个打了他哥哥并绑架了他哥哥妻子的愤怒的黑衣骑士。 他说，他这么做是出于报复，也是为了他妻子和她的鹿的荣誉。 高文起了疑心。领主描述的这个女人听起来很像女巫费雯丽，她以制造这样纯粹的恶作剧而闻名。 “现在鹿和狗都死了，”他说，“让你和你兄弟的战斗也死去吧。” 领主同意了。然而，当高文回到卡梅洛特，并向亚瑟和格温娜维尔描述了所发生的一切时，格温娜维尔王后决定他就是那个

troublemaker. She privately told an attendant how Gawaine had shown the lord no mercy and how he had struck and injured a woman. "Surely, his sword has now been dishonored," she said. Gawaine, overhearing this, decided that Guinevere would hate him forever and would never really give him a chance. He hid his anger, however, and—out of respect for the queen—broke his now dishonored sword across his knee. Don't worry about Sir Gawaine, though. He went on to prove himself, both to Queen Guinevere and, perhaps, to you as well.

麻烦制造者。她私下里告诉一个随从，高文是如何毫不留情地对待领主，如何殴打并伤害了一位妇女。 她说：“他的剑现在肯定是蒙羞了。” 高文无意中听到了这些话，断定桂尼维尔会永远恨他，永远不会真正给他机会。 然而，他隐藏了自己的愤怒，出于对王后的尊重，他把现在已经不光彩的剑放在膝盖上。 不过，不用担心高文爵士。 他继续向格温娜维尔王后，或许还有你，证明自己。