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贸易。

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

其文化——如古凯尔特人和北欧人文化里，狼也很高。

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

古代北欧人祭祀索尔时通常以山羊为祭品，祭拜欧丁(Odin)时有时会以人为祭品。

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。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是北欧人，我们更熟知名字是维京人。

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

东非和北欧养牛人发生了基因突变，这样能够帮助们在成年后消化牛奶。

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

北欧人把们宇宙分成九个世界，以世界之树 Yggdrasil 为中心。

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影响，们经常在一年中这个时候讲鬼故事。

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

基督教兴起影响了北欧人以及们扩张领土需要。

Oh, he did the Northman as well a which movie we're talking about the lighthouse.

哦，也演了《北欧人》，我们是在谈论《灯塔》这部电影。

These were the real Nordics according to the racial theorists.

种族理论家们认为，这些才是真正北欧人。

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。宿命论意思就是相信所有发生事都是命中注定。我们可以发现这种思想遍布全世界，不仅古人这样想，现代人也一样。北欧这里人同样非常相信命运，相信冰岛诗集中各种神话与传说。

Belief in the Norns gave the Norse a fatalistic outlook that encouraged taking risks.

对诺伦三女神信仰赋予了北欧人一种宿命论世界观，这种观念鼓励人们冒险。稳妥行事并不能带来任何收益。

For the Viking Age Norse, the chief and his personal retinue were at the center of society.

对于维京时代北欧人而言，首领及其私人随从构成了社会核心。

And basically the Norsemen are much better at this than the Anglo-Saxons are, than the English are.

基本上，北欧人在这方面比盎格鲁-撒克逊人，也就是英格兰人，要强得多。

The Norse presence in the region was a response to the River  Suir's commercial and navigational opportunities.

北欧人在该区存在，是对苏尔河商业及航运机遇回应。