Let's start off with some of the strong goddesses in the Norse pantheon.

让我们从北欧万神殿中一些强大的女神开始。

Well, the Norse gods have sent Sleipnir — son of Loki and the greatest of Asgard's steeds.

嗯，北欧诸神派出了斯莱普尼尔——洛基之子，阿斯嘉德最伟大的战马。

The Norse sagas provided a third option.

北欧传奇提供了第三种选择。

First, the great distance of the Maine site from the Norse settlements in Canada.

首先， 缅因州遗址距离加拿大的挪威人定居点很远。

His abode, Breidablik in Asgard, was the  most intricate hall of the Norse world.

他的居所位于阿斯加德的 Breidablik，是北欧世界最复杂的大厅。

Wotan, Wagner's name for Woden, the chief Germanic god, called by the Norse Odin.

瓦格纳 (Wogner) 对日耳曼主神沃登 (Woden) 的称呼， 被北欧奥丁 (Odin) 称为沃坦 (Wotan)。

Hel The Norse goddess of the netherworld was Hel.

Hel 冥界的北欧女神是 Hel。

If you can pull this off, surely nothing could stop the might of the Norse Gods.

如果你能做到这一点，肯定没有什么能阻止北欧众神的力量。

Forseti Forseti was the Norse god of law, justice, and reconciliation. He presided  over disputes in the Norse world.

Forseti Forseti 是北欧法律、正义与和解之神。他主持了北欧世界的争端。

Readers of modern fantasy will also find many echoes of the Norse tales.

现代奇幻小说的读者还会发现许多北欧故事的影子。

It honors the Norse explorer who sailed around the northeastern coast of what we now call North America about 1,000 years ago.

它是为了纪念这位一千年前环游我们现在称为北美的这片大陆东北海岸的挪威探险家。

However, over time, the Norse myths and  legends took a backseat to the Christian ideas.

然而，随着时间的推移，北欧神话和传说让位于基督教思想的次要地位。

The Native Americans could have reached the Norse settlements during their travels and brought the silver coin back to Maine.

美洲原住民本可以在旅途中到达北欧人定居点， 并将银币带回缅因州。

A connection that was lost so badly that it wouldn't be reconnected again until nearly 10,000 years later when the Norse and later the Spanish rediscovered it.

失去这段连接造成的影响很严重，以至于直到近一万年后，挪威人和后来的西班牙人重新发现它时才重新建立起联系。

Neil Gaiman,   Douglas Adams, and others have explicitly taken some of the Norse gods and put them into a modern  setting with strange, sad, and humorous results.

尼尔·盖曼、道格拉斯·亚当斯和其他人明确地将一些北欧诸神置于现代背景中，产生了奇怪、悲伤和幽默的结果。

Freyja is thought to have developed from an earlier fertility deity along with a fertility goddess Frigg, wife of Odin, the king of the gods, and the greatest goddess of the Norse pantheon.

弗雷娅被认为是由早期的生育神和生育女神弗丽嘉一起发展而来，弗丽嘉是众神之王奥丁的妻子，也是北欧万神殿中最伟大的女神。

The word 'Yuletide', which is now used as a synonym for Christmas, is a word from the Norse pagan winter festival of Yule and the word 'tide', meaning a period of time.

“Yuletide”这个词现在被用作圣诞节的同义词，是来自北欧异教冬季圣诞节的一个词，意思是一段时间。

The Norse oral tradition includes tales of a land called Vineland the Good and to this day some still believe that the Norse voyagers traveled much farther south along the Atlantic coast than was previously believed.

北欧的口头文学中包括名叫好葡萄地的地方直到现在还有人认为北欧人沿大西洋向南航行的距离比我们之前认为的要远的多。

As Christianity rose in popularity, the Norse religion struggled to maintain itself against a religion that was so very different, and once Christianity triumphed over the pagan Norse beliefs, the temples were destroyed.

随着基督教的流行，北欧的宗教在与一个非常不同的宗教的斗争中挣扎着维持自己，一旦基督教战胜了异教的北欧信仰，寺庙就被摧毁了。

Thor, the Norse god of the sky, thunder, and agriculture is best known today from his depiction as a superhero in graphic novels and movies, which draw on his role in tales from Norse mythology.

托尔是北欧的天空、雷电和农业之神，如今人们最熟悉的是他在漫画小说和电影中的超级英雄形象，这些小说和电影都借鉴了他在北欧神话故事中的角色。