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。

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他们扩张领土的需要。

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

因为维京人更恰当地称为北欧人或北方人或北方人。

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。

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。

They settled over a thousand miles away in the west of France, which became Normandy - named for those Norsemen.

他们在法国西部 1000 多英里外定居下来，后来成为诺曼底——以那些北欧人的名字命名。

The area was named for the Vikings, Norsemen or Northmen who raided and settled the region during the ninth century.

该地区以 9 世纪袭击和定居该地区的维京人、北欧人或北方人的名字命名。

By the late 8th Century, the Vikings (or Norsemen) began to make sporadic raids on the east cost of Britain.

到 8 世纪后期， 维京人（或北欧人）开始对不列颠东部海岸进行零星的袭击。

Nevertheless, it is impossible to live in  proximity to novel ideas without being influenced, so the Norsemen had incorporated some Christian  ideas into their beliefs.

然而，生活在接近新思想的地方而不受到影响是不可能的，因此北欧人将一些基督教思想融入了他们的信仰。

These Norsemen had structured societies with laws that upheld fairness and justice, even  though there was no overarching government to link them together early in their history.

这些北欧人建立了以维护公平和正义的法律为基础的社会，尽管在他们的历史早期并没有一个统领政府将他们联系在一起。

Everyone had to pull their weight, and although the Norsemen played  sports and board games in their free time, many of those activities also prepared them as  fighters.

每个人都必须竭尽全力，虽然北欧人在空闲时间会参加体育运动和棋盘游戏，但其中许多活动也让他们成为战士。

Those warriors were the Vikings. These fierce  Norsemen ushered the world into the Viking Age, a tumultuous era that radically changed  the socio-political picture of Europe, setting it on a course that  none could hope to change.

那些战士就是维京人。 这些凶猛的北欧人将世界带入了维京时代，这个动荡的时代彻底改变了欧洲的社会政治图景，使欧洲走上了无人能改变的道路。