Sona素那
1Sona fights at Adalseong
素那，白城郡蛇山人也。其父沈那，膂力過人，身輕且捷。蛇山境與百濟相錯，故互相寇擊無虛月。沈那每出戰，所向無堅陣。仁平中，白城郡出兵，往抄百濟邊邑，百濟出精兵急擊之，我士卒亂退。沈那獨立拔劒，怒目大叱，斬殺數十餘人，賊懼不敢當，遂引兵而走。百濟人，指沈那曰：「新羅飛將。」因相謂曰：「沈那尚生，莫近白城。」素那雄豪有父風。百濟滅後，漢州都督都儒公請大王遷白王遣素那於阿達城，俾禦北鄙。上元二年乙亥春，阿達城太守級飡漢宣，敎民以某日齊出種麻，不得違令。靺鞨諜者認之，歸告其酋長。至其日，百姓皆出城在田，靺鞨潛師猝入城，剽掠一城，老幼狼狽，不知所為。素那奮刃向賊，大呼曰：「爾等知新羅有沈那之子素那乎？固不畏死以圖生，欲鬪者曷不來耶？」遂憤怒突賊，賊不敢迫，但向射之。
Sona was a man of Sasan in Baekseong commandery. His father Simna had strength beyond other men, and his body was light and quick.
The border of Sasan lay tangled together with Baekje, and so the two sides raided and struck each other, and not a month was empty of it. Whenever Simna went out to fight, there was no firm line of battle where he turned.
In the years of Inpyeong, Baekseong commandery sent out troops and went to plunder a border town of Baekje. Baekje sent out picked troops and struck them hard, and the Silla soldiers fell back in disorder. Simna alone stood his ground and drew his sword, and he glared with his eyes and shouted loudly, and cut down several dozen men. The bandits were afraid and did not dare face him, and at last they led their troops away.
The men of Baekje pointed to Simna and said, "The flying general of Silla." And they said to one another, "While Simna is still alive, do not go near Baekseong."
Sona was bold and manly, and he had his father's air. After Baekje was gone, Doyugong, the governor of Hanju, asked the great king to send Sona to Adalseong, to guard the northern border.
In the spring of the second year of Sangwon, an eulhae year, Hanseon, the prefect of Adalseong, who held the rank of geupchan, told the people to go out together on a certain day and plant hemp, and let no one break the order. A spy of the Malgal learned of this and went back and told his chief.
When the day came, the people had all gone out of the fortress and were in the fields. The Malgal led their troops in secret and came suddenly into the fortress, and they plundered the whole of it, and the old and the young were at a loss and did not know what to do.
Sona shook out his blade and turned on the enemy, and cried out loudly, "Do you know that Silla has Sona, the son of Simna? Truly I do not fear death and scheme to live. Let those who wish to fight come forward."
Then in his anger he charged the enemy, and the enemy did not dare press him, but only shot at him from where they stood.
Interlinear notes 2
或云金川。
He is also called Geumcheon (金川).
或云煌川。
He is also called Hwangcheon (煌川).
2Sona dies and his wife speaks
素那亦射，飛矢如蜂，自辰至酉，素那身矢如猬，遂倒而死。素那妻，加林郡良家女子。初素那以阿達城隣敵國，獨行，留其妻而在家。郡人聞素那死，弔之，其妻哭而對曰：「吾夫常曰：『丈夫固當兵死，豈可臥牀席，死家人之手乎！』其平昔之言如此，今死如其志也。」大王聞之，涕泣沾襟曰：「父子勇於國事，可謂世濟忠義矣。」贈官迊飡。
Sona shot back as well, and the flying arrows were like a swarm of bees. From the hour of jin to the hour of yu they fought, and the arrows in Sona's body were like the spines of a hedgehog, and at last he fell and died.
Sona's wife was a woman of a good house in Garim commandery. At first, because Adalseong lay next to an enemy country, Sona went there alone and left his wife at home.
When the people of the commandery heard that Sona had died they came to mourn him, and his wife wept and answered them, "My husband always said, 'A man should rightly die in battle. How can he lie on a bed and die in the hands of his household?' Such were his words in ordinary days, and now his death is as he wished."
The great king heard of it, and his tears wet the front of his robe, and he said, "Father and son were brave in the affairs of the state. It may be said that they carried loyalty and right through the generations." He gave Sona the rank of japchan after his death.