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#4931. 中英語作品『ガウェイン卿と緑の騎士』より冒頭の2スタンザ[sggk][me_text][me_dialect][literature][popular_passage][voicy][heldio]

2022-10-27

 中英語ロマンスの傑作『ガウェイン卿と緑の騎士』 (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) の翻案作品となる映画『グリーン・ナイト』が11月25日より公開されます.この機会を逃さず,大学(院)の授業などで SGGK の原文を読んでいます.
 先日 hellog でも「#4890. 中英語作品『ガウェイン卿と緑の騎士』より緑の騎士が登場するシーン」 ([2022-09-16-1]) を紹介しつつ Voicy と連携して読み上げてみました(こちらから聴いてみてください).今回は,同じ趣向ですが,作品冒頭の2スタンザ (ll. 1--36) を中英語原文(Andrew and Waldron 版)に基づいて Voicy 「#514. 『ガウェイン卿と緑の騎士』より冒頭の2スタンザを中英語原文で読み上げます」で読み上げました.以下の原文とともにお聴きください.



Siþen þe sege and þe assaut watz sesed at Troye,
Þe borȝ brittened and brent to brondez and askez,
Þe tulk þat þe trammes of tresoun þer wroȝt
Watz tried for his tricherie, þe trewest on erthe.
Hit watz Ennias þe athel and his highe kynde,
Þat siþen depreced prouinces, and patrounes bicome
Welneȝe of al þe wele in þe west iles.
Fro riche Romulus to Rome ricchis hym swyþe,
With gret bobbaunce þat burȝe he biges vpon fyrst
And neuenes hit his aune nome, as hit now hat;
Ticius to Tuskan and teldes bigynnes,
Langoberde in Lumbardie lyftes vp homes,
And fer ouer þe French flod, Felix Brutus
On mony bonkkes ful brode Bretayn he settez
      Wyth wynne,
    Where werre and wrake and wonder
    Bi syþez hatz wont þerinne
    And oft boþe blysse and blunder
    Ful skete hatz skyfted synne.

Ande quen þis Bretayn watz bigged bi þis burn rych
Bolde bredden þerinne, baret þat lofden,
In mony turned tyme tene þat wroȝten.
Mo ferlyes on þis folde han fallen here oft
Þen in any oþer þat I wot, syn þat ilk tyme.
Bot of alle þat here bult of Bretaygne kynges
Ay watz Arthur þe hendest, as I haf herde telle.
Forþi an aunter in erde I attle to schawe,
Þat a selly in siȝt summe men hit holden
And an outrage awenture of Arthurez wonderez.
If ȝe wyl lysten þis laye bot on littel quile,
I schal telle hit astit, as I in toun herde,
      Wyth tongue.
    As hit is stad and stoken
    In stori stif and stronge,
    With lel lettres loken,
    In londe so hatz ben longe.


 意味を確認するために Bantock の現代韻文訳および池上による日本語訳も挙げておきます.

When the assault on Troy and the siege had come to an end,
The ramparts smashed to a heap of smouldering ruins,
And that treacherous man Antenor brought to trial
For treason worse than has ever been known on earth,
Then noble Aeneas, with his clan of kindred knights,
Subdued the lands and at length became the lords
Of well nigh all of the wealth in the Western Isles.
Then swiftly, courageous Romulus swept into Rome,
His first concern to found, with fast-growing pride,
The noble city that now upholds his name.
Then Ticius with tents built interim towns in Tuscany,
And Langeberde laid out new homes in Lombardy.
Then the Channel was challenged from France by Felix Brutus,
Who boldly established Britain on her broad green slopes ---
      In gladness long ago!
    Though hatred, war and hell
    Brought turmoil, tears and woe,
    Their fortunes rose or fell
    In endless ebb and flow.

The famous warrior founded Britain thus,
And bred a race of battle-loving men,
Who caused great torment in those troubled times.
More heart-enthralling things have happened there
Than anywhere else on earth since the ancient days.
But of the rulers reigning there, I have heard,
The noblest of all in honour was Arthur the king.
So now one great adventure will I make known,
Which many men will think a miracle ---
The most astounding tale of Arthur's time.
And if you'll listen to this legend a little while,
I'll tell it as I heard it told in town
      In spoken song;
    Inspired, I will expound
    A story bold and strong,
    With letters linked by sound,
    As minstrels have made for long.


 トロイの包囲攻撃が終わりをつげ,城都が崩壊し灰燼に帰してから,反逆を企てた騎士が裏切りの罪を問われて裁判にかけられたが,これは本当の話である.それは王子アエネーアスとその高貴な一族で,彼らはその後もろもろの大国を征服し,西方の諸島の財宝をほとんど手中にした支配者となった.偉大なロムルスはローマに逸速く侵入すると,まず手はじめに壮大にあの都市を建設し,自らの名前をとって命名したが,今でもその名で呼ばれている.ティシウスはトスカーナ地方に赴き住居を建て,ランゴバルドはロンバルディア地方に家屋をつくり,フェーリークス(幸福な)・ブルートゥスははるかフランス海峡を越えて多くの広大な丘陵にブリテンを創った,
    喜び勇んで.
  戦闘,災難,不思議なことが
  おりおりそこで起り,
  喜びと悲しみとがその後,たえず交互におとずれている.

 この高貴な武将がブリテンを建国すると,剛胆な者どもが現われ,いくさを好み,幾度も紛争を引き起こした.この国ではその昔より,私が知っているどの国よりも世に驚くべきことがしばしば起っている.それはともかく,この国に居をかまえたすべてのブリテン王のうちで,アーサーこそ最も気高い王であったと聞いている.そこで奇妙な光景だと思うひともいるような世にも珍しい出来事,アーサーに関する話のうちでも途方もなく変った冒険談を語るつもりだ.みなさんがしばしの間,この物語詩に耳を傾けてくださるならば,いますぐに貴族の館で聞いたとおりに語りたいと思う,
    言葉を使い.
  それは勇壮な力強い物語に
  書き留められて定着し,
  正しい文字で結ばれて,
  この国に長い間伝えられたもの.


 ・ Andrew, Malcolm and Ronald Waldron, eds. The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. 3rd ed. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 2002.
 ・ Bantock, Gavin, trans. Sir Gawain & the Green Knight . Pearl: Two Middle-English Poems. Brimstone P, 2018.
 ・ 池上 忠弘(訳) 『「ガウェイン」詩人 サー・ガウェインと緑の騎士』 専修大学出版局,2009年.

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