Английские волшебные сказки / English Fairy Tales

That night they were all gathered (той ночью они все собрались: «были все собраны») in the castle hall (в замковом зале) to hear the great harper (чтобы услышать великого арфиста) – king and queen, their daughter and son, Sir William, and all their Court (король и королева, их дочь и сын, сэр Уильям и весь их двор). And first the harper sang to his old harp (и сперва арфист пел под свою старую арфу), making them joy and be glad (заставляя их радоваться и быть довольными), or sorrow and weep (или печалиться и рыдать), just as he liked (прямо как он хотел = по своей воле).

But while he sang (но пока он пел), he put the harp he had made that day (он поставил арфу, которую он сделал в тот день) on a stone in the hall (на камень в зале). And presently it began to sing by itself (и некоторое время спустя она начала петь сама собой), low and clear (тихо и ясно), and the harper stopped and all were hushed (и арфист остановился, и все замолкли: «были заставлены замолчать»).

    breast [brest], gather [‘????], presently [‘prez?ntl?]

So he made a harp out of her breast-bone and her hair, and travelled on up the hill from the mill-dam of Binnorie till he came to the castle of the king her father.

That night they were all gathered in the castle hall to hear the great harper – king and queen, their daughter and son, Sir William, and all their Court. And first the harper sang to his old harp, making them joy and be glad, or sorrow and weep, just as he liked.

But while he sang, he put the harp he had made that day on a stone in the hall. And presently it began to sing by itself, low and clear, and the harper stopped and all were hushed.

And this is what the harp sang (и вот что пела арфа):

‘O yonder sits my father, the king (о, там сидит мой отец, король),

Binnorie, O Binnorie;

And yonder sits my mother, the queen (а там сидит моя мать, королева);

By the bonny mill-dams o’ Binnorie (у прекрасных мельничных запруд Биннори).

‘And yonder stands my brother Hugh (а там стоит мой брат Хью),

Binnorie, O Binnorie;

And by him my William, false and true (и подле него мой Уильям, неверный и верный);

By the bonny mill-dams o’ Binnorie.’

    Hugh [hju:], false [f?:ls]

And this is what the harp sang:

‘O yonder sits my father, the king,

Binnorie, O Binnorie;

And yonder sits my mother, the queen;

By the bonny mill-dams o’ Binnorie.