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At the first whir of wings my gerfalcon would stir strongly on my fist, though the hood kept him from fluttering his wings;
Con el primer aleteo mi gerifalte se agitaba con fuerza en mi puño, aunque el capirote le impedía batir las alas;
One of the pages carried two gerfalcons upon a perch, the other a hunting–horn, which he blew with a careless note at twenty paces from the castle.
Uno de los pajes llevaba dos gerifaltes sobre una percha y el otro una corneta, en la que soplaba con flojedad a veinte pasos del castillo.
I had my vellum book with me still, and in the morning I would mount my nag and take my gerfalcon on my fist and clip away at full gallop over Red Hill.
Todavía tenía conmigo el libro de pergamino y por la mañana montaría mi jaca y, con mi gerifalte sobre el puño, saldría a cabalgar a galope tendido hacia Red Hill.
On his wrist was his favorite gerfalcon, and riding beside his litter were his old councilors, dressed in the dark, earth-toned hunting clothes that kept the birds they stalked from startling and taking flight.
Sobre la muñeca llevaba su gerifalte favorito, y junto a la litera cabalgaban sus viejos consejeros, vestidos con ropas de caza de oscuros tonos terrosos a fin de que las aves a las que acechaban no se espantaran y levantaran el vuelo.
Usually, when not in the company of King Henry, he just wore working leathers and about three sticking plasters, but what he was wearing now had been designed hundreds of years before by someone with a lyrical view of the countryside who had never had to run through a bramble bush with a gerfalcon hanging on their ear.
Por lo general, cuando no estaba en compañía de King Henry vestía ropa de trabajo de cuero y unas tres tiritas, pero la ropa que llevaba ahora había sido diseñada hacía centenares de años por alguien con una visión lírica de la campiña y que nunca se había obligado a correr por entre las zarzas con un halcón gerifalte colgado de la oreja.
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