The Crossroads Of Ravens

Глава 2THE CROSSROADS OF RAVENSBY ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKIfan translation by Nikkur Hashem, not for commercial useQUOTESA ghastly wind howls in the gloomiest darkness,A dreadful, bloodthirsty thing lurks in the shadows,Evil gets closer; it’s time to seek rescue,Help, o witcher, arrive!A scream of an innocent victim is heard in the distance,The dark night and winter envelop the place,The stones and white birches are splattered with blood,But still there’s no sign of the witcher.Anonymous ballad, circa 1150 after the Resurrection.Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.Psalm 25:7Kaedwen is a land lying between the Dragon Mountains on the north, the Blue Mountains on the east, and primeval impenetrable forests on the west. The hereditary kings of the Topp dynasty reign there. The original capital was in ancient Ban Ard, but in 1130 after the Resurrection, King Dagread granted tha…