Korean–English parallel text
어부와 그의 아내
The Fisherman and His Wife
Brothers Grimm
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옛날 어느 바닷가 돼지우리에서 아내와 함께 살던 한 어부가 있었다.
There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.
어부는 날마다 밖으로 나가 낚시를 했다. 어느 날 낚싯대를 쥐고 물가에 앉아 반짝이는 물결과 낚싯줄을 바라보고 있을 때, 갑자기 찌가 깊은 물속으로 끌려 들어갔다. 낚싯대를 끌어올리자 아주 커다란 물고기 한 마리가 낚였다.
The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.
그런데 그 물고기가 말했다. “제발 살려주세요! 저는 진짜 물고기가 아니라 마법에 걸린 왕자입니다. 저를 다시 물속에 넣고 놓아주세요!” “오호라!”
But the fish said, ‘Pray let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince: put me in the water again, and let me go!’ ‘Oh, ho!’
어부가 말했다. “그렇게 길게 말할 필요는 없어요. 말하는 물고기와는 엮이고 싶지 않으니까요. 그러니 좋을 대로 어서 헤엄쳐 가세요!”
said the man, ‘you need not make so many words about the matter; I will have nothing to do with a fish that can talk: so swim away, sir, as soon as you please!’
어부는 물고기를 다시 물속에 넣어 주었다. 물고기는 곧장 바닥으로 헤엄쳐 내려가며 물결 위에 긴 핏자국을 남겼다.
Then he put him back into the water, and the fish darted straight down to the bottom, and left a long streak of blood behind him on the wave.
어부가 돼지우리로 돌아와 아내에게 커다란 물고기를 잡은 일과 그 물고기가 마법에 걸린 왕자라고 말한 일, 그리고 말을 듣고 다시 놓아준 일을 이야기했다. “아무것도 달라고 하지 않았어요?”
When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again. ‘Did not you ask it for anything?’
아내가 말했다. “우리는 이 더럽고 끔찍한 돼지우리에서 비참하게 살고 있잖아요. 어서 돌아가서 아늑하고 작은 오두막을 달라고 물고기에게 말해요.”
said the wife, ‘we live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty pigsty; do go back and tell the fish we want a snug little cottage.’
어부는 그 일이 썩 마음에 들지 않았지만 바닷가로 갔다. 바닷가에 이르자 물이 온통 누렇고 초록빛을 띠고 있었다. 어부는 물가에 서서 외쳤다.
The fisherman did not much like the business: however, he went to the seashore; and when he came back there the water looked all yellow and green. And he stood at the water’s edge, and said:
“바다의 사람이여! 내 말을 들어보오! 내 아내 일사빌이 제 뜻대로 하려 하여, 그대에게 소원을 빌러 나를 보냈소!”
‘O man of the sea! Hearken to me! My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will, And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’
그러자 물고기가 헤엄쳐 다가와 말했다. “그래, 아내의 뜻이 무엇인가요? 아내가 무엇을 원해요?” “아!”
Then the fish came swimming to him, and said, ‘Well, what is her will? What does your wife want?’ ‘Ah!’
어부가 말했다. “내가 당신을 잡았을 때 놓아주기 전에 무엇이든 부탁했어야 했다고 아내가 말했어요. 아내는 더 이상 돼지우리에서 살고 싶어 하지 않고, 아늑하고 작은 오두막을 원해요.”
said the fisherman, ‘she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go; she does not like living any longer in the pigsty, and wants a snug little cottage.’
“그럼 집으로 돌아가세요.” 물고기가 말했다. “아내는 벌써 오두막에 있어요!” 어부가 집으로 돌아가 보니, 말끔하고 아담한 오두막 문 앞에 아내가 서 있었다. “어서 들어와요, 어서요!” 아내가 말했다. “우리가 살던 더러운 돼지우리보다 훨씬 낫지 않아요?”
‘Go home, then,’ said the fish; ‘she is in the cottage already!’ So the man went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of a nice trim little cottage. ‘Come in, come in!’ said she; ‘is not this much better than the filthy pigsty we had?’
오두막 안에는 응접실과 침실, 부엌이 있었다. 오두막 뒤에는 온갖 꽃과 과일나무가 심어진 작은 뜰이 있었고, 뒤뜰에는 오리와 닭이 가득했다. “아!”
And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens. ‘Ah!’
어부가 말했다. “이제 우리는 얼마나 행복하게 살까!” 아내는 “적어도 그렇게 살려고 해봐야지요.” 하고 말했다.
said the fisherman, ‘how happily we shall live now!’ ‘We will try to do so, at least,’ said his wife.
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