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2．CATELYN
第二章 凱特琳
Catelyn had never liked this godswood.
凱特琳向來不喜歡這座神木林。
She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.
出身南境徒利家族的她，自小在紅叉河畔的奔流城長大。紅叉河是三叉戟河的支流，那里的神木林是座明亮清朗的花園，高大的紅木樹影灑進溝磷溪澗，鳥兒在棲隱巢穴里高唱，空氣中彌漫百花馨香。
The gods of Winterfell kept a different sort of wood. It was a dark, primal place, three acres of old forest untouched for ten thousand years as the gloomy castle rose around it. It smelled of moist earth and decay. No redwoods grew here. This was a wood of stubborn sentinel trees armored in grey-green needles, of mighty oaks, of ironwoods as old as the realm itself. Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshappen roots wrestled beneath the soil. This was a place of deep silence and brooding shadows, and the gods who lived here had no names.
臨冬城信仰的神只則是另一番氣象。這是個陰暗原始的地方，昏暝古堡巍然獨立其間，萬年古木樣亙周邊三英畝，散發出濕意和腐敗的氣味。此地不生紅木，樹林由披戴著灰綠松針的哨兵樹、壯實的橡樹，以及與王國同樣蒼老的鐵樹所組成。在這里粗壯厚實的黑色樹干相互攘擠，扭曲的枝研在頭頂織就一片濃密的參天樹頂，變形的錯節盤根則在地底彼此角力。這是個屬於深沉寂靜和窒郁暗影的地方，而蟄居其間的神只連名字也付之闕如。
But she knew she would find her husband here tonight. Whenever he took a man’s life, afterward he would seek the quiet of the godswood.
但她知道今晚可以在這里找到丈夫。每回他取人性命後，總會來此筧求神木林的寧靜。
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。
