Audiobook Dictation: “At the prow I carved the…”

At the prow I carved the head with open mouth and forked tongue thrust out.

在船頭，我雕了一個張著嘴、吐出分叉舌頭的龍頭。

"'There, stand so!' I said, 'and glare and hiss at my foes.'

「『好，就這樣立著！』我說，『對我的敵人怒目而視、嘶嘶作響吧。』

There I put the pilot's seat and a strong tiller for the rudder.

在那裡我裝了舵手的座位和一根結實的舵柄。

On the breast and sides I carved the dragon's scales.

在船胸和兩側，我雕上了龍鱗。

"The night that it was finished I went to my father's feast.

「船完工的那天夜裡，我去赴父親的宴席。

"'This is my vow: I will sail to Norway and I will harry the coast and fill my boat with riches.

「『這是我的誓言：我要揚帆去挪威，劫掠那裡的海岸，用財寶裝滿我的船。

Then I will get me a farm and will winter in that land.

然後我要在那片土地上弄一座農莊，在那裡過冬。

Now who will follow me?'

現在，誰願意跟隨我？』

"But others jumped to their feet with their mead-horns in their hands. Thirty men, one after another, raised their horns and said:

「但另一些人手持蜜酒角杯一躍而起。三十個人一個接一個舉起角杯，說道：

"On the next morning we got into my dragon and started.

「第二天早上，我們登上我的龍船出發了。