sword [sɔ: d], slaughter [slɔ: tə], fields [fi: ldz], dead [ded], death [deƟ], giant [ʤaɪənt]

The clangor of sword and ax had died away; the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The bleak, pale sun that glittered so blindingly from the ice fields and the snow-covered plains struck sheens of silver from rent corselet and broken blade where the dead lay as they had fallen. The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt; helmeted heads, drawn back in their death throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in a last invocation to Ymir the frost giant, god of a warrior race.

Across the reddened drifts and the mail-clad forms, two figures glared at each other (через покрасневшие сугробы и одетые в кольчугу формы две фигуры смотрели друг на друга: «на каждый другого»). In all that utter desolation, they alone moved (во всем этом абсолютном уединении они одни двигались). The frosty sky was over them (морозное небо было над ними), the white illimitable plain around them (белая безграничная равнина вокруг них), the dead men at their feet (мертвые люди/мужчины у их ног). Slowly through the corpses they came (медленно сквозь/среди/через трупы они шли; to come — приходить, идти), as ghosts might come to a tryst through the shambles of a dead world (как привидения могут/могли идти к месту встречи через руины мертвого мира). In the brooding silence, they stood face to face (в нависшей тишине они стояли лицом к лицу; to stand — стоять).

moved [mu: vd], through [Ɵru: ], ghosts [ɡəusts], might [mait], world [wə: ld]