Richard I: A Wild King

理查一世：一名疯狂的国王

RICHARD I was a hairy King with a Lion’s Heart; he went roaring about the Desert making ferocious attacks on the Saladins and the Paladins, and was thus a very romantic King. Whenever he returned to England he always set out again immediately for the Mediterranean and was therefore known as Richard Gare de Lyon. He had a sword of enormous dimensions with which he used to practise cutting iron bars and anvils in half, whereas the Saladins had very sharp swords which were only useful for cutting cushions in half. In spite of which the Crusaders under Richard never got Jerusalem back; this was undoubtedly due to the treacherous behaviour of the Saladins, who used to fire on the Red Cross which the Crusaders wore on their chests in battle.

理查一世是一名散发着危险气息，追寻刺激的国王，有着狮子一般的心脏。他咆哮着去往沙漠地带，残暴地攻打萨拉丁¹和圣骑士²:，由此成为一名富有浪漫色彩的国王。每次返回英格兰，他都会立即整装待发去往地中海世界，因此获得了理查快线³的称号。他拥有一柄硕大无比的宝剑，常常拿来练习将铁条和铁砧一劈为二，萨拉丁的剑虽然十分锋利，但只能把坐垫那样的东西劈成两半。尽管理查领导下的十字军战士，从未真正地收复耶路撒冷，这当然归咎于萨拉丁的卑鄙行为，他们在战斗中瞄准十字军战士胸前的红十字开火。

The Story of Blondin

Richard is also famous for having a minstrel boy (or Touralour) called Blondin who searched for him under the walls of all the dungeons in Europe. This was when Richard had been caught by the blind King of Bohemia during a game of Blind King’s Bluff and sold to the Holy Roman Terror. Blondin eventually found him by singing the memorable song (or ’touralay’) called O Richard et mon Droit (’ Are you right, there, Richard ?’) which Richard himself had composed. Richard roared the chorus so that Blondin knew which dungeon he was in, and thus the King easily escaped and returned to the Crusades, where he died soon after of a surfeit of Sala dins, and was therefore known in the East as Richard Cœur de Laitue.

理查同样得名于拥有一名叫做布隆丁的男宠（或Touralour），此人在欧洲的地牢下搜寻着理查。那是在理查被波西米亚的盲王捉住时候的事了，当时波西米亚的盲王在一场游戏中夸口说，要把理查卖给神圣罗马暴君（Holy Roman Terror？）布隆丁最终通过唱了一首著名的歌（或民谣¹）发现了理查，那首歌叫做 O Richard et mon Droit(理查，你在那还好吗？)由理查本人谱曲。理查高声唱出和声，波隆丁从而得知理查所关押的地牢，于是国王轻易地逃出升天，回到十字军的队伍中，在那他很快死于吃了过量的沙拉和点心（Sala dins？）因此被东方人视作为莴苣心理查。