Gilgamesh : A New Rendering In English Verse - Plot & Excerpts
They have given a golden mixing bowl to her and an ale flagon. She gazed along the shore; she gazed and gazed and saw that there was coming along the shore a hairy-bodied man, a wanderer, who was wearing an animal skin, coming toward her tavern along the shore. It was Gilgamesh approaching, two-thirds a god, but one-third mortal and grieving in his heart. He looked like one who has undergone a journey, his face bitten by hunger or by sorrow. “Who is this man,” she said to herself, “who is it, hairy-bodied, wearing the skin of a beast, coming toward my tavern along the shore, looking like one who has undergone a journey, his face bitten by hunger or by sorrow?” She was afraid, and shut the door to her tavern, and slid the door bolt to, and locked the door. Gilgamesh heard the sound of the door shutting and heard the sound of the door bolt sliding to. He called to the tavern keeper: “Tavern keeper, why have you shut the door against me so? If you do not let me in I will break the lock and break the door that shuts me out of the tavern.
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