第一章 Aegon's Conquest 部分2
The Aegon who would be known to history as Aegon the Conqueror and Aegon the Dragon was born on Dragonstone in 27 BC. He was the only son, and second child, of Aerion, lord of Dragonstone, and Lady Valaena of House Velaryon, herself half Targaryen on her mother' side. Aegon had two true born siblings; and elder sister, Visenya, and a younger sister, Rhaenys. It had long been the custom amongst the dragonlords of Valyria to wed brother to sister, to keep the bloodlines pure, but Aegon took both his sisters to bride. By tradition, he would have been expected to wed only his older sister，Visenya; the inclusion of Rhaenys as a second wife was unusual, though not without precedent. It was said by some that Aegon wed Visenya out of duty and Rhaenys out of desire.
历史上以伊耿之战和龙王伊耿而著名的伊耿于公元前27年出生在龙岩岛上。他是龙岩岛领主艾利安和韦拉利恩家族的瓦莱娜夫人的第二个孩子，也是唯一的儿子，瓦莱娜夫人的母亲也是坦格利安血统。伊耿有两个同父同母的亲人，姐姐叫韦塞雅，妹妹叫蕾妮斯。长久以来，瓦雷利亚的龙王之中有个习俗，就是为了保证血统的纯正延续而进行兄妹通婚，但伊耿同时娶了他的姐姐和妹妹。按照传统，他将会仅娶他的姐姐韦塞雅，再娶蕾妮斯作为第二个妻子有些不同寻常，尽管并非没有先例。据说伊耿是出于责任娶了韦塞雅，和蕾妮斯结婚则是由于爱情。
All three siblings had shown themselves to be dragonlords before they wed. Of the five dragons who had flown with Aegon the Exile from Valyria, only one survived to Aegon's day: the great beast called Balerion, the Black Dread. The dragons Vhagar and Meraxes were younger, hatched on Dragonstone itself.
三个兄弟姐妹在结婚前都有望成为龙王。同伊耿逃离瓦雷利亚的五条飞龙中，只有一条存活到了伊耿的时代，体型最大的名叫贝勒利恩，外号“黑暗恐惧”。另外两条龙，瓦加和米拉克斯更加年轻，是在龙岩岛上孵化出来的。
A common myth, oft heard amongst the ignorant, claims that Aegon Targaryens had never set foot upon the soil of Westeros until the day he set sail to conquer it, but this cannot be truth. Years before that sailing, the Painted Table had been carved and decorated at Lord Aegon's command; a massive slab of wood, some fifty feet long, carved in the shape of Westeros, and painted to show all the woods and rivers and towns and castles of the Seven Kingdoms. Plainly, Aegon's interest in Westeros long predated the events that drove him to war. As well, there are reliable reports of Aegon and his sister Visenya visiting the Citadel of Oldtown in their youth, and hawking on the Arbor as guests of Lord Redwyne. He may have visited Lannisport as well; accounts differ.
无知的人常听到一个普遍的传说，说伊耿·坦格利安在起航征服维斯特洛之前从未踏足过这块土地，但这绝不是事实。在起航之前的几年，在伊耿的命令下绘有图案的桌子已经开始雕刻与装饰了，一个巨大的木质厚板雕刻着维斯特洛的地形，大约有五十英尺长，上面绘有七大王国的所有森林，河流，城镇和城堡。显然，伊耿对维斯特洛的兴趣远远早于驱使他参战的事件。同样，有可靠的报道说伊耿和他的姐姐韦塞雅在他们年轻的时候造访过旧城的城堡，并且作为雷德韦恩勋爵的客人在凉亭上战斗。他可能也去过兰尼斯特港；有不同的历史记录版本。
The Westeros of Aegon's youth was divided into seven quarrelsome kingdoms, and there was hardly a time when two or three of these kingdoms were not at war with one another. The vast, cold, stony North was ruled by the Starks of Winterfell. In the deserts of Dorne, the Martell princes held sway. The gold-rich wastelands were ruled by the Lannisters of Casterly Rock, the fertile Reach by the Gardeners of Highgarden. The Vale, the Fingers, and the Mountains of the Moon belonged to House Arryn ... but the most belligerent kings of Aegon's time were two whose realms lay closest to Dragonstone, Harren the Black and Argilac the Arrogant.
伊耿年轻时期的维斯特洛被分为七个争斗不止的王国，很少有某一段时间其中两三个王国不和另一个王国交战。广袤的寒冷的多岩石的北方被临冬城的史塔克家族统治。马泰尔家族统治着多恩的沙漠。凯岩城里的兰尼斯特家族统治者金矿富饶的西境，高庭里的园丁家族统治着肥沃的河湾地。谷底，五指半岛和明月山脉属于艾林家族，但伊耿时期最好战的国王是两个统治疆域离龙岩岛最近的，“黑心”赫伦和“自大的”亚尔吉拉。
From their great citadel, Storm's End, the Storm Kings of House Durrandon had once ruled the eastern half of Westeros, from Cape Wrath to The Bay of Crabs, but their powers had been dwindling for centuries. The Kings of the Reach had nabbed at their domains from the west, the Dornishmen harassed them from the south, and Harren the Black and his ironman had pushed them from the Trident and the lands north of the Blackwater Rush. King Argilac, last of the Durrandon, had arrested this decline for a time, turning back a Dornish invasion whilst still a boy, crossing the narrow sea to join the great alliance against the imperialist "tigers" of Volantis, and slaying Garse VII Gardener, King of the Reach, in the Battle of Summerfield twenty years later. But Argilac had grown older; his famous mane of black hair had gone grey, and his prowess at arms had faded.
从他们伟大的城堡风息堡，杜兰登家族的风暴王曾经统治着维斯特洛大陆东部一半的疆域，从风怒角到蟹湾，但是他们的权利在过去的几个世纪不断减小。河湾地的国王从西部占领了他们的领地，多恩人在南部骚扰他们，“黑心”赫伦和他的铁民把他们从三叉戟流域和黑水河北部的土地上赶了出去。杜兰登家族的最后国王亚尔吉拉，在一段时间之内阻止了王国的衰退，他少年时就击退了多恩人的一次入侵，穿过狭海反对虎党的大联盟，在征服战争二十年之后的夏草原之战中杀死了河湾地的国王，贾尔斯·园丁七世。但是亚拉吉尔慢慢变老，他的满头黑发已经变得灰白，臂力也逐渐消退。
North of the Blackwater, the riverlands were ruled by the bloody hand of Harren the Black of House Hoare, King of the Isles and the Rivers. Harren's ironborn grandsire, Harwyn Hardhand, had taken the Trident from Argilac's grandsire, Area, whose own forebears had thrown down the last of the river kings centuries earlier. Harren's father had extended his domains east to Duskendale and Rosby. Harren himself had devoted most of his long reign, close on forty years, to building a gigantic castle beside the Gods Eye, but with Harrenhal at last nearing completion, the ironborn would soon be free to seek fresh conquests.
黑水河北部，河间地由双手沾满鲜血的霍尔家族的黑心赫伦统治，他是河流与海岛的国王。赫伦的铁钟外公，哈温·哈德汉德曾经从亚拉吉尔的外公阿雷亚手中拿下过三叉戟领域， 在前几个世纪前，亚拉吉尔的外公们的祖先丢失了最后一批三叉戟河上的土地。赫伦的父亲曾经将疆域向东拓展到暮谷镇和罗斯比。赫伦在他将近四十年的长期统治中，大部分时间都在神眼湖旁边建造一座巨大城堡，但是在赫伦堡即将完工之时，铁种很快就可以自由的寻找新的征服了。
No King in Westeros was more feared than Black Harren, whose cruelty had become legendary all through the Seven Kingdoms. And no king in Westeros felt more threatened than Argilac the Storm King, last of the Durrandon, an aging warrior whose only heir was his maiden daughter. Thus it was that King Argilac reached out to the Targaryens on Dragonstone offering Lord Aegon his daughter in marriage, with all the lands east of the Gods Eye from the Trident to the Blackwater Rush as her dowry.
维斯特洛大陆上没有那个国王比黑心赫伦更可怕的了，他的残暴在七大王国已经成为传奇。并且维斯特洛大陆上没有一个国王比风暴王亚拉吉尔更危险的了，他是最后的杜兰登人，一个年迈的武士，唯一的继承人时他的未婚女儿。因此亚拉吉尔国王为他的女儿派使者到龙岩岛向坦格利安家族的伊耿求婚，同时将三叉戟到黑水湾的神眼湖以东的全部土地作为她女儿的嫁妆。
Aegon Targaryen spurned the Storm King's proposal. He had two wives, he pointed out; he did not need a third. And the dower lands being offered had belonged to Harrenhal for more than a generation.They were not Argilac's to give. Plainly, the aging Storm King meant to establish the Targaryens along the Blackwater as a buffer between his own lands and those of Harren the Black.
伊耿坦格利安拒绝了风暴王的求婚。他指出，他已经有两个妻子，不需要第三个了。并且嫁妆里的土地已经超过一代被赫伦人占有。他们不是亚拉吉尔可以提供的。显然，年迈的风暴王打算在黑水河岸建立坦格利安家族，作为他与黑心赫伦的领土之间的缓冲地带。
