By then Ser Gregor Clegane was in position at the head of the lists. He was huge, the biggest man that Eddard Stark had ever seen. Robert Baratheon and his brothers were all big men, as was the Hound, and back at Winterfell there was a simpleminded stableboy named Hodor who dwarfed them all, but the knight they called the Mountain That Rides would have towered over Hodor. He was well over seven feet tall, closer to eight, with massive shoulders and arms thick as the trunks of small trees. His destrier seemed a pony in between his armored legs, and the lance he carried looked as small as a broom handle.
這時格雷果·克里岡已經在場邊就位。他是艾德·史塔克生平所見最為高大壯碩的人。勞勃·拜拉席恩和他兩個弟弟塊頭都不小，"獵狗"也是大個子，臨冬城里更有個頭腦簡單的馬僮阿多，比他們還要高出不少，可跟眼前這個人稱"魔山"的騎士比起來，通通都矮了一大截。他高近八尺，肩膀寬厚，手臂粗得像小樹干。他的坐騎在他穿護甲的雙腳下簡直像匹玩具馬，手中長槍也仿如掃把棍。
Unlike his brother, Ser Gregor did not live at court. He was a solitary man who seldom left his own lands, but for wars and tourneys. He had been with Lord Tywin when King’s Landing fell, a new-made knight of seventeen years, even then distinguished by his size and his implacable ferocity. Some said it had been Gregor who’d dashed the skull of the infant prince Aegon Targaryen against a wall, and whispered that afterward he had raped the mother, the Dornish princess Elia, before putting her to the sword. These things were not said in Gregor’s hearing.
格雷果爵士不像他弟弟那樣在宮廷生活。他是個獨居的人，非遇戰事或比武大會，鮮少離開自己的領地。君臨城陷時他跟在泰溫公爵身邊，年方十七，雖然才剛當上騎士，卻已經因為高大的體型和無可匹敵的兇暴而遠近馳名。有人說把當時還是小嬰兒的伊耿·坦格利安王子一頭砸墻、活活撞死的人正是格雷果，又說他之后強暴了嬰兒的母親，即多恩領的伊莉亞公主，最后才一劍殺死她。當然，這些話誰也不敢在他面前提起。
Ned Stark could not recall ever speaking to the man, though Gregor had ridden with them during Balon Greyjoy’s rebellion, one knight among thousands. He watched him with disquiet.
奈德·史塔克不記得自己跟他說過話，但當年平定巴隆·葛雷喬伊叛亂時，格雷果倒曾與其他幾千個騎士一起，和他共同作戰。他不安地看著他。
背景介紹:
《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。喬治·雷蒙德·理查德·馬丁是歐美奇幻小說大師。馬丁的作品主要以人物為關注點，描寫細膩豐富，突破了幻想文學界固有的創作模式，多次引領閱讀潮流。由于馬丁的輝煌成就，他被譽為美國的托爾金和新世紀的海明威。從1989年開始，馬丁淡出文學界，轉而投身演藝界發展，1996年他才重返文壇而開始奇幻文學的創作，處女作便是《權力的游戲》，即為《冰與火之歌》的首部曲。《權力的游戲》甫出便拿下了British Fantasy Society、 世界奇幻獎和星云獎年度最佳幻想作品提名，在非官方的不記名奇幻作品投票中，《冰與火之歌》儼然已經可以和《魔戒》平起平坐，作者網站的訪問量也是和斯蒂芬·金、J.K.羅琳等不相上下，其受歡迎的程度可見一斑。喬治馬丁被時代雜志評選為2011年影響世界的一百人之一。
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