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1．BRAN
第一章布蘭
The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. They set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excitement. This was the first time he had been deemed old enough to go with his lord father and his brothers to see the king’s justice done. It was the ninth year of summer, and the seventh of Bran’s life.
晨色清冷，帶著一絲寂寥，隱然暗示夏日將盡。為數二十人的隊伍於破曉時分輕騎啟程，布蘭策馬置身其間，滿心焦慮又興奮難耐。這次他年紀總算夠大，可以與父兄同往刑場，目睹國王律法的執行。這是夏天的第九年，布蘭現年七歲。
The man had been taken outside a small holdfast in the hills. Robb thought he was a wildling, his sword sworn to Mance Rayder, the King-beyond-the-Wall. It made Bran’s skin prickle to think of it. He remembered the hearth tales Old Nan told them. The wildlings were cruel men, she said, slavers and slayers and thieves. They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns. And their women lay with the Others in the Long Night to sire terrible half-human children.
死囚已被領至小丘上的平房外，羅柏認為他是個誓死效忠"境外之王"曼斯·雷德的野人。布蘭回想起老奶媽在火爐邊說過的故事，不禁渾身起了雞皮疙瘩。她說野人生性兇殘蠻狠，個個都是販賣奴隸、殺人放火的偷盜之徒。他們與巨人族和食尸鬼狼狽為奸，在暗夜里誘拐童女、以磨亮的獸角茹毛飲血。他們的女人則相傳在遠古的"長夜"里與異鬼茍合，繁衍半人半鬼的恐怖後代。
But the man they found bound hand and foot to the holdfast wall awaiting the king’s justice was old and scrawny, not much taller than Robb. He had lost both ears and a finger to frostbite, and he dressed all in black, the same as a brother of the Night’s Watch, except that his furs were ragged and greasy.
然而眼前這個老人卻削瘦枯槁，比羅柏高不了多少，手腳緊縛身後，靜待國王意旨發落。他在酷寒中因凍瘡失去了雙耳和一根手指，全身衣著漆黑，與守夜人弟兄們的制服沒有兩樣，只不過他的衣衫襤褸，而且膿瘡四溢。
讀物介紹：
《權力的游戲》是一部中世紀史詩奇幻題材的電視連續劇。該劇以美國作家喬治·R·R·馬丁的奇幻巨作《冰與火之歌》七部曲為基礎改編創作，由大衛·貝尼奧夫和丹尼爾·威斯編劇、HBO電視網推出。本劇第一季于2011年4月17日開播，第二季于2012年4月1日回歸，第三季于2013年3月31日開始播出，第四季已獲得預定，將在2014年春季回歸。
