Clocks and time have played a great part in defining the character of the Anglo-Saxons.

时钟和时间大大说明了盎格鲁‧撒逊人性格。

We're traveling back over 1 600 years to a place called Angle Land, otherwise known as England, home to the Anglo-Saxon people. Joining us is historian Dr Michael Carter who will talk us through the key players in Saxon religion.

我们将回到 1600 多年前，一个叫做 Angle Land 地方，也就是盎格鲁-撒逊人故乡英格兰。历史学家迈尔·卡特（Michael Carter）博士将为我们讲述撒逊宗教参与者。

Was he killed in the ongoing skirmish between Vikings and Anglo-Saxons?

他是否在维京人和盎格鲁-撒逊人持续不断纷争中被杀？

Because all the Saxons who have heard of Uther's death have poured into northern Britain, Arthur lays siege to the city of York in retaliation, and he goes up against the saxons in a bunch of battles.

因为所有听说乌瑟之死撒逊人都涌入了英国北部，亚瑟围攻了约城作为报复，他与撒逊人进行了一系列战斗。

In another battle against the Saxons, Arthur, with bright Excalibur drawn, rushed headfirst into the throng crying the name of God with each killing blow. 470 men he killed that day.

在与撒逊人另一场战斗中，亚瑟拔出明亮王者之剑，头朝下冲进人群，在每一次致命打击中呼喊上帝名字。那天他杀了470个人。

However, the Norman Conquest did not affect English as much as the Angles and the Saxons' vitory about 600 years earlier, which led to Old English replacing Celtic.

然而，诺曼征服队英语影响并不及约600年前盎格鲁人和撒逊人胜利对英语影响，那场胜利导致英语代替了凯尔特语。

The area that the Anglo-Saxons conquered like Westeros was divided into small petty kingdoms that eventually coalesced into wouldn't you know its seven kingdoms.

盎格鲁-撒逊人所征服地区，同维斯特洛大陆一样，被划分为几个小王国，最终合并成——你一定不知道——七个王国。

The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo–Saxons.

这座城市建筑师摆脱不了盎格鲁撒逊人建筑特点——追求" 线条对称" 。

This Anglo Saxon name, meaning " noble (and) bright" has been growing more dim by the decade.

这个盎格鲁撒逊人名字，意思是“高贵（和）光明”，在过去十年里变得越来越暗淡。

Not everything begins exactly on time, even in Anglo-Saxon culture.

即使在盎格鲁‧撒逊人文化中，也不是每件事都准时开始。

The Celts and native Britons were forced into areas away from the Saxon conquest to places like Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall and some even fled to Brittany which is where Brittany got its British-sounding name from.

凯尔特人和本土不列颠人被逼到远离撒逊人征服地区，如爱尔兰、苏格兰、威尔士和康沃尔，有些人甚至逃到布列塔尼，这就是布列塔尼这个听起来像英国名字由来。

But it was a pretty messy moment, and the hoard demonstrates that the struggle between Viking and Anglo-Saxon wasn't yet over.

但当时形势十分混乱，这批宝藏表明维京人和盎格鲁-撒逊人争斗远未结束。

And Auckland will continue to become younger and browner as Anglo-Saxon population ages and shrinks.

而奥兰将继续变得越来越年轻和多元，因为盎格鲁-撒逊人人口正在老龄化和减少。

The kingdom fell into Viking hands through Bamburgh  managed to remain under Anglo-Saxon control.

王国落入了维京人手中，但班堡设法保持在盎格鲁-撒逊人控制之下。

He had never given up during the battles with the Saxons.

在与撒逊人战斗中他从未放弃。

On the ridgeline, the Anglo-Saxon shield wall stood firm.

在山脊线上，盎格鲁-撒逊人盾墙坚不可摧。

Adams could not get over his astonishment, though he had preached the Norse doctrine all his life against the stupid and beer-swilling Saxon boors whom Freeman loved, and who, to the despair of science, produced Shakespeare.

亚当斯无法服他惊讶，尽管他一生都在宣扬北欧学说来反对弗里曼所爱愚蠢和狂饮啤酒撒逊人，而正是这些人在科学绝望中创造了莎士比亚。

There were silver coins in England in the time of the Saxons; but there was little gold coined till the time of Edward III nor any copper till that of James I. of Great Britain.

撒逊人时代英格兰有银币；但是在爱德华三世之前几乎没有金币铸造，在英国詹姆斯一世时代之前几乎没有铜币铸造。

The earliest legends of King Arthur, for example, presented him as a heroic warlord defending the Celtic Britons against the Germanic Anglo-Saxons, who invaded Britain after the withdrawal of Roman forces in 410 CE.

例如，最早关于亚瑟王传说将他描绘为一位英勇军阀，捍卫凯尔特布立吞人免受日耳曼盎格鲁-撒逊人侵袭，后者在公元410年罗马军队撤离不列颠后入侵了该岛。

Many aristocrats who had lost all or part of their estates that they had held for generations, or even, for example, from receiving the just rewards of subjugating the Saxons in the Norman conquest.

许多贵族失去了他们世代相传领地，甚至有些是因为在诺曼征服中征服撒逊人而获得应得奖赏。