【书籍搬运】The Third Door 第三扇门

原文地址：http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:The_Third_Door

作者：安娜娜·奥米

翻译：花溪流萤

I.

我歌唱伊拉贝茨，斧之女王。

她可以两斧砍倒一棵粗壮榆树。

如果高兴甚至可以劈裂瓦伦林地

她师承塔尔-阿鲁恩的奥夫赫迪。

他教会她挥击，劈打，以及站位

为了使挥斧变成华丽舞蹈

他教会她勇敢兽人所用带刺钩斧

永冬城最爱六尺长斧

西部精灵的空心双刃斧

这些她都舞的虎虎生风

用单刃斧，她可砍杀两个男人

用双刃斧，她能劈死十个以上

现在她的传说又添新词

一个男人闯入她的芳心

II.

尼诺拉斯·尤瓦茨，来自黑玫瑰，被誉为壮士,

唯一一个能在斧技上胜过她的男人

一分钟内，她能砍倒五十棵大树，他可以砍倒五十三棵

她立刻认定他就是她的唯一

当她向他表白她的爱情，尼诺拉斯只是笑着

他说他更喜欢他的斧柄斧把

如果这还不够熄灭他的欲望

他还有另外一个女人洛伦赛芮

愤怒掌控了斧之女王，伊拉贝茨陷入疯狂

她的想法变成死亡冥想

梅法拉和希奥格拉丝 给予她报复计划

数周来，她为之筹划，如痴如醉

在一个夜里，她绑架了她的情敌

然后告诉她攸关生死的抉择

III.

洛伦赛芮在沼泽的小屋醒来

这个屋子空无一物只有三扇门

伊拉贝茨解释道，其中一扇门后是她的爱人

在哪里她将看到伊拉贝茨和她的爱人，伟岸尼诺拉斯

第二扇门后住着一只饥饿的妖怪

第三扇门是通向自由的出口

她必须从里面选择一扇门，为了帮助她快速决定

如果犹豫时间过长，斧子将把她劈成两半

洛伦赛芮哭了， 伊拉贝茨有些后悔

然后打开了距她最近的右侧的门

这扇门通向荒野，她一个人滑进黑暗之中

她建议洛伦赛芮也离开屋子

洛伦赛芮没有听从，她认为自己不会屈服

尼诺拉斯身体就在她打开的第一扇门后面

IV.

伊拉贝茨撒了谎：这里根本就没有传说中的恶魔

第三扇门后是尼诺拉斯的头颅

The Third Door
by Annanar Orme
Tale of a heart-broken, vengeful, axe-wielding woman

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I.
I sing of Ellabeth, the Queen of the Axe,
Who could fell a full elm with two hatchet hacks.
She could rip apart Valenwood just for her fun.
She studied under Alfhedil in Tel Aruhn.
He taught her the jabs, the strokes, and the stance
To make an ax-swing into an elegant dance.
He taught her the barbed axes of the Orcs bold,
The six-foot-long axes favored in Winterhold,
The hollow-bladed axes of the Elves of the West,
Which whistle when they swing through flesh.
With a single-headed axe, she could behead two men.
With a double-headed axe, she could fell more than ten.
Yet where she lives in legend has most to do
With the man who hacked her own heart in two.

II.
Nienolas Ulwarth the Mighty, who hailed from Blackrose,
The only man who could best Ellabeth with ax blows,
In a minute, she chopped fifty trees; he, fifty-three.
She felt at once that he was the only man for she.
When she professed her love, Nienolas just laughed.
He said he loved more his ax handle and shaft.
And if they weren't enough to slake all his desire
There was another woman named Lorinthyrae.
Fury gripped the Queen of the Axe, the maid Ellabeth,
And her thoughts turned to pondering musings of death.
Mephala and Sheogorath gave her a revengeful scheme
And for weeks, she worked on it in a state like a dream.
In the still of the night, she kidnapped her rival
And then told her choices between doom and survival.

III.
Lorinthyrae awoke in a house in the moors
In a room lightly furnished except for three doors.
Ellabeth explained that behind one of the doors the lass
Would find Ellabeth's and her love, the great Nienolas.
Behind the second lived a ravenous demon.
And behind the third, an exit to freedom.
She must choose a door, and to aid her decision
If she pondered too long, the axe'd make a division.
Lorinthyrae wept, and Ellabeth felt contrite,
And opened the door to her immediate right.
It led to the moors, and as she slipped through the gloom,
She advised Lorinthyrae to likewise abandon the room.
Lorinthyrae ignored her and did not feel her will bend.
Nienolas was largely behind the first door she opened.

IV.
Ellabeth had lied; there was no demon of lore.
The top third of Nienolas was behind the third door.