North Europeans brought sausages of all kinds to America.

北欧人将各种香肠传入美国。

I was working on The Northman at the time.

那个时候我在拍《北欧人》。

Yet there is a limit to how many Nordics the world can absorb.

然而对于这个世界能接受多少北欧人还是存有一定限制。

The Nordic peoples traded with narwhal horns in inland Europe.

北欧人在欧洲内陆做独角鲸角的贸易。

The Norse people divided their universe into nine realms with the world tree Yggdrasil in the center.

北欧人把们的宇宙分成九个世界，以世界之树 Yggdrasil 中心。

Other cultures -- such as the ancient Celtic and Nordic peoples – also placed high value on wolves.

其——如凯尔特人和北欧人的里，狼的地位也很高。

The offering to Thor was usually a goat. Offerings to Odin sometimes took the form of human sacrifices.

代北欧人祀索尔时通常以山羊，拜欧丁(Odin)时有时还会以人。

That includes the Nordics, who went and informed him of that a few months ago. That includes Japan.

这其中也包括北欧人，几个月前们就把这件事告诉了。还有日本也包括在内。

The first Europeans known to have reached the New World were Norsemen, better known to us as Vikings.

已知最早来到新世界的是北欧人，我们更熟知的名字是维京人。

Cattle-raising people in East Africa and northern Europe have gained a mutation that helps them digest milk as adults.

东非和北欧的养牛人发生了基因突变，这样能够帮助们在成年后消牛奶。

Storytelling at Christmas was also influenced by the Norse, who regularly told ghost stories at this time of the year.

圣诞节讲故事也受到北欧人的影响，们经常在一年中的这个时候讲鬼故事。

Seeking a favorable solution, the Francs  were aiming to strike a deal with the Norse.

了寻求有利的解决方案，法郎打算与北欧人达成协议。

The rise of Christianity influenced the Norsemen  and their need to expand their territories.

基督教的兴起影响了北欧人以及们扩张领土的需要。

So Vikings were people from basically Scandinavia or northern Europe.

所以维京人基本上是来自斯堪的纳维亚半岛或北欧的人。

Because Vikings were more properly called Norsemen or Northmen or Northerners.

因维京人更恰当地称北欧人或北方人或北方人。

I was going to guess the Nordics.

MAUGHAN: 我本来想猜北欧人。

In both these areas the Greeks were great believers in fatalism.

在这些方面，希腊人非常相信宿命论。宿命论的意思就是相信所有发生的事都是命中注定的。我们可以发现这种思想遍布全世界，不仅人这样想，现代人也一样。北欧这里的人同样非常相信命运，相信冰岛诗集中的各种神话与传说。

At the mid-tier level for historical epics, a movie like this year's The Norsemen cost about 70mn.

在历史史诗的中等水平， 像今年的北欧人这样的电影花费了大约 7000 万美元。

Skiing was also a great way to hunt and even helped Nordic people, like the Vikings, move their heavy ships over land.

滑雪也是一种很好的狩猎方式，甚至可以帮助北欧人，比如维京人在陆地上移动们沉重的船只。

Fear not, my fellow Brits, the Danes aren't gearing up to send  more rampaging Norsemen to our shores.

不要害怕，我的英国同胞，丹麦人并没有准备好向我们的海岸派遣更多狂暴的北欧人。