cabin [ˈkæbɪn], horde [hɔ: d], bandage [ˈbændɪʤ]

There had been fighting on Thunder River; fierce fighting before the walls of Velitrium; ax and torch had been plied up and down the bank, and many a settler's cabin lay in ashes before the painted horde was rolled back.

A strange quiet followed the storm, in which people gathered and talked in hushed voices, and men with red-stained bandages drank their ale silently in the taverns along the river bank.

There, to Conan the Cimmerian, moodily quaffing from a great wine-glass (там, к Конану-киммерийцу, угрюмо пьющего из большого бокала), came a gaunt forester with a bandage about his head and his arm in a sling (подошел сухопарый лесник с повязкой на /его/ голове и /его/ рукой на перевязи). He was the one survivor of Fort Tuscelan (он был единственным уцелевшим из Форта Тусцелан).

"You went with the soldiers to the ruins of the fort (ты ходил с солдатами к руинам форта; to go — ходить, идти)?" Conan nodded (Конан кивнул).

"I wasn't able," murmured the other (я не смог, — пробормотал другой). "There was no fighting (не было боя)?"

moodily [ˈmu: dɪlɪ], quaff [kwɑ:f], murmur [ˈmə: mə]

There, to Conan the Cimmerian, moodily quaffing from a great wine-glass, came a gaunt forester with a bandage about his head and his arm in a sling. He was the one survivor of Fort Tuscelan.

"You went with the soldiers to the ruins of the fort?" Conan nodded.

"I wasn't able," murmured the other. "There was no fighting?"

"The Picts had fallen back across Black River (пикты отступили за Черную реку). Something must have broken their nerve, though only the devil who made them knows what (что-то, должно быть, подорвало их уверенность, хотя только дьявол, который создал их, знает что)."

The woodsman glanced at his bandaged arm and sighed (лесной житель посмотрел на /его/ перевязанную руку и вздохнул).

"They say there were no bodies worth disposing of (/они/ говорят, /там/ не было тел, стоящих убирания = которые можно было убрать = захоронить; to dispose of — завершать, избавляться, убирать, удалять, уничтожать)." Conan shook his head (Конан покачал /своей/ головой = кивнул).[50] "Ashes (пепел). The Picts had piled them in the fort and set fire to the fort before they crossed the river (пикты сложили их в кучу в форте и подожгли форт, перед тем как /они/ пересекли реку; to pile — складывать в кучу). Their own dead and the men of Valannus (своих собственных мертвецов и людей Валаннуса)."