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He was a bright boy (он был смышленым мальчиком; bright — сообразительный, смышленый), so the tale runs (так сказание гласит; to run — гласить; бегать), healthy and strong (здоровым и сильным), and he had seen thirteen suns (и он видел тринадцать солнц), in their way of reckoning time (по их способу исчисления времени; reckoning — вычисление, счет). For each winter the sun leaves the land in darkness (потому что каждую зиму солнце оставляет землю в темноте), and the next year a new sun returns (а на следующий год новое солнце возвращается) so that they may be warm again and look upon one another's faces (так, что они могут быть согреты опять и рассмотреть лица друг друга). The father of Keesh had been a very brave man (отец Киша был очень смелым мужчиной), but he had met his death in a time of famine (но он встретил свою смерть во время голода), when he sought to save the lives of his people (когда он пытался спасти жизни своих людей; to seek to do something — пытаться, стараться что-либо сделать) by taking the life of a great polar bear (отнимая жизнь большого полярного медведя = убивая большого полярного медведя). In his eagerness he came to close grapples with the bear (в своем стремлении он дошел до тесных схваток/объятий с этим медведем; eagerness — пыл, рвение, стремление; grapple — схватка, борьба), and his bones were crushed (и его кости были раздавлены); but the bear had much meat on him and the people were saved (но медведь имел много мяса на себе, и люди были спасены). Keesh was his only son (Киш был его единственным сыном), and after that Keesh lived alone with his mother (и после этого Киш жил один со своей матерью). But the people are prone to forget (но люди склонны забывать), and they forgot the deed of his father (и они забыли гибель его отца); and he being but a boy (а /поскольку/ он был только мальчиком), and his mother only a woman (а его мать — только женщиной), they, too, were swiftly forgotten (они тоже были быстро забыты; swift — быстрый, скорый), and ere long came to live in the meanest of all the igloos (и вскоре стали жить в самой бедной из всех иглу; ere — до, прежде; ere long — вскоре; mean — бедный, жалкий, убогий).

bright [braIt], eagerness ['JgqnIs], bear [beq]

He was a bright boy, so the tale runs, healthy and strong, and he had seen thirteen suns, in their way of reckoning time. For each winter the sun leaves the land in darkness, and the next year a new sun returns so that they may be warm again and look upon one another's faces. The father of Keesh had been a very brave man, but he had met his death in a time of famine, when he sought to save the lives of his people by taking the life of a great polar bear. In his eagerness he came to close grapples with the bear, and his bones were crushed; but the bear had much meat on him and the people were saved. Keesh was his only son, and after that Keesh lived alone with his mother. But the people are prone to forget, and they forgot the deed of his father; and he being but a boy, and his mother only a woman, they, too, were swiftly forgotten, and ere long came to live in the meanest of all the igloos.