赤熱せる鉄輪のこと。 Of the red-hot wheel of iron.
この刑場より悪魔たち騎士を引き摺り赴けるは、熱き鉄輪。輻と輪木と赤熱せる釘にて結わえ、地に立ち上れる硫黄の炎に大火傷負へる者共の吊るされて在り。
From this place of punishment the demons dragged the knight to a
hot iron wheel, the spokes and tires of which were fixed with red-hot nails, to which were suspended men who were grievously burned by the flame of the brimstone-fire which rose from the ground.
この車輪、鉄の棒にて悪魔いと疾く回せば、人の一人とその他と、見分くること能はざりき。いと疾きがゆえ、彼等の皆して、火の塊一つに見ゆればなり。他には、悪魔に串刺しとされ、煮へたぎる鉄の湯かけられ、同じく苦痛忍びし者もあり。猶また、天火に焼かるる者あり、平底鍋に焼かるる者あり。
騎士はなほ、引きずられつつ見つは家。アスファルト・硫黄・溶融金属湛えし大釜数多置く。男女の別なく、あらゆる階級齢の人の浸かりて在りし。ある者は目まで、ある者は唇と首まで、ある者は胸まで、またある者は膝と足ばかりなりき。皆、苦患甚だしきに吠え、哀れにも咽び泣く。さても悪魔共、騎士を他の者共と諸共に、釜に入れむとせるほどに、彼、基督の御名を呼ばはれば、即ち救はれき。
The demons impelled this wheel with iron bars so rapidly, that it was impossible to distinguish one man from another; for on account of the rapidity of the motion, they all looked one mass of fire. Others endured equal torments, being fixed to spits, and basted by the demons with liquid metal; whilst others were baked in ovens or fried in frying-pans. The knight saw, moreover, as his conductors dragged him away, a house containing numerous large cauldrons, which were full of liquid pitch, sulphur, and melted metals, wherein were human beings of both sexes, and of all ranks and ages; some wholly immersed, some up to their eyes, others to their lips and necks, others to their breasts, and others again only to their knees and legs. Some had only one hand or foot, others had both immersed; all were howling and crying piteously for the greatness of their sufferings. When the demons tried to plunge the knight into the cauldrons with the rest, he invoked the name of Christ, and that saved him.
