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Question 1

1. sword in his belt, while the remaining rider. B. explain the “al hombro” structure?
2. the bitter wind that was blowing in the gorge/pass (ie a narrow break in the mountains)
3. in the vicinity of the tower
4. the village in the dip (as in the fold, in the hills)
5. bundles of herbs (as in, a bunch of things together)

Answer 1

1. espada al cinto, en tanto que el jinete restante … B. la preposición ‘a’ se usa para expresar el lugar y, a su vez, el modo de llevar algo en el cuerpo; en algunos contextos puede alternar con la preposición ‘en’.
2. el crudo viento que soplaba en el desfiladero
3. en las proximidades de la torre
4. el pueblo en la hondonada
5. manojos de hierbas

Question 2

1. Shelter the horses, walk them, brush them … [Vb as in, give shelter to]
2. Praise be to god (or, Praise the lord). He’s alive.
3. … the smoke swirled around in the room. B. to swirl around
4. worn out (or threadbare) carpets
5. two wooden chests

Answer 2

1. Guarece a los caballos. Paséalos, cepillalos … [guaracer a]
2. Alabado sea Díos, está vivo.
3. … el humo se arremolinaba en la habitación. B. arremolinar
4. alfombras raídas
5. dos cofres de madera

Question 3

1. his grim presence
2. they hobnobbed with the rich B. to rub shoulders with
3. they used it as a beacon B. to use as a X
4. a heartless + rogue
5. men are argumentative (or quarrelsome)

Answer 3

1. su torva presencia
2. se codeaban con los ricos B. codearse con
3. le sirvieron de + almenara B. servir de
4. un granuja + impío
5. los hombres son pendencieros

Question 4

1. a bishops staff B. Describe it.
2. the dead wore the golden merlon. B. It’s a type of hawk
3. the corpses were skewered (also speared by some arrows. B. What vb mean re a needle? What idea of vb?
4. he went stumbling down the street B. loc vb = to stumble
5. the women screamed (or shrieked)

Answer 4

1. un báculo de obispo B. One of those catholic ones with curved circular top.
2. los muertos llevaban el esmerejón dorado B. el halcón
3. los cadáveres estaban ensartados por unas flechas B. ensartar = to thread, as in to pass through s.th.
4. se fue calle abajo dando traspiés B. dar un traspié
5. las mujeres chillaban

Question 5

1. a man IN dark livery
2. then they all got shit faced
3. he knelt down B. loc vb = to kneel down C. reg vb = to kneel
4. the short feathered metallic darts empendolated with strips of crossbowmen’s leather B. vb = to put feather’s on an arrow
5. “a war party” B. What N more generally mean?

Answer 5

1. un hombre CON librea oscura
2. luego se ponen todos como un cubA
3. se hincó de rodillas B. hincarse de rodillas, una rodilla = a knee C. arrodillarse
4. los dardos cortos metálicos empendolados con tiras de cuero de ballesteros B. empendolar
5. “un cuadrilla de guerra” B. a gang or crew of workers

Question 6

1. the battlements of the castle
2. the birds nesting in the fissures (or cracks, in hard surface not all way) of the war. B. vb to nest
3. the cloud of smoke (as in, lots) and the fire
4. the intestines splattered all over the stones of the patio. B. vb usually means re liquid?
5. a plaintive (or whiny) sobbing

Answer 6

1. las almenas del castillo
2. … los pájaros anidados en las hendiduras del muro. B. anidar
3. la humareda y el fuego
4. los intestinos desparramados por las piedras del patio B. desparramar = to spill
5. un sollozo quejumbroso

Question 7

1. he will slit your belly (as in, to slit a throat)
2. … he wore [A] coat of mail, breastplate and greaves.
3. he slowed his horse’s pace B. to slow (down), as in reduce speed
4. the walls of the city were crumbling/collapsing. B. What vb fig mean?
5. … amongst all that dross (refer to thing). B. what mean if refer to people?

Answer 7

1. te rayará el vientre
2. … llevaba cota de malla, peto y grebas
3. aminoró el paso de su caballo B. aminorar
4. las murallas de la ciudad se desmoronaban B. desmoronarse = to fall apart, as in to have a breakdown
5. … entre toda esa escoria. B. scum

Question 8

1. his men stripped off their armour B. to strip off (or take off) clothes
2. the pigs were rooting in amongst the trunks
3. blood dripped on her tattered (as in shreds) clothes/clothing
4. From there the road ran straight down the hill(side) to X
5. his expression betrayed nothing B. Explain loc vb

Answer 8

1. sus hombres se despojaron de la armadura B. despojarse de
2. los cerdos hozaban entre los troncos (hozar)
3. la sangre goteó sobre su vestido + hecho jirones
4. Desde allí el camino transcurría recta ladera abajo hasta X
5. su expresión no dejó traslucir nada B. no dejar traslucir -> traslucir = to show o.s. (or to reveal)

Question 9

1. he was preaching nonsense [NOT tonterias] … B. the friars were preachers C. to preach
2. the overhangs of the houses B. Alt N?
3. a standard-bearer rode beside the men-at-arms
4. some filthy/dirty and matted rags
5. … it will peel off like a whore’s scabs

Answer 9

1. estaba predicando disparates … B. los frailes eran predicadores C. predicra
2. los voladizos de las casas B. saliente
3. un portaestandarte cabalgaba junto a los hombres de armas
4. unos harapos mugrientes y apelmazados
5. … se pelará como las costras de una puta

Question 10

1. I would hold him prisoner to collect a ransom.
2. I swore an oath
3. they had their horses tied to stakes about a hundred yards away. [stake, a sharpened pole]
4. they were riding steeds
5. to avoid running into/coming across strangers

Answer 10

1. lo retendría para cobrar un rescate
2. hice un juramento [hacer un juramento]
3. tenían los caballos atados a unas estacas a unas cien yardas de distancia
4. iban montado corceles
5. para evitar toparse con desconocidos

Question 11

1. a talkative woman
2. but anyway I thought X was a strange man

Answer 11

1. una mujer parlanchina
2. pero de todos modos creía que X era un hombre estraño