纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 047萨顿胡头盔(5)

"There's a marvellous section in the Beowulf poem itself-the Last Veteran it's called-the last person of his tribe, burying treasure in the hoard¹ and saying: 'Lie there treasure, you belong to earls, the world has changed'. And he takes farewell of the treasure, and buries it in the ground. That sense of elegy-a farewell to beauty and farewell to the treasured objects-that hangs round the helmet, I think.

《贝奥武甫》中有一节特别精彩的《最后的老兵》, 部落里剩下的最后一个人将珍宝埋藏起来，说，待在这里吧珍宝，你属于爵爷们，世界已经改变了。他向这些财宝告别，将它们掩埋起来。这是一首哀歌，向美好告别，向珍宝告别。我觉得类似这样的哀歌一直萦绕在这头盔周围。

"So it belongs in the poem, but obviously it belonged within the burial chamber² in Sutton Hoo. But it has entered imagination, it has left the tomb and entered the entrancement of the readers, I think, of the poem-and of the viewers of the object in the British Museum."

它属于诗歌.同时也属于萨顿胡的墓室。但当它进入想象世界，便离开了墓室，成为诗歌的欣赏者和大英博物馆的参观者脑内的奇观。

The Sutton Hoo helmet belonged of course not to an imagined poetic³ hero, but to an actual historical ruler. The problem is we don't know which one. It's generally supposed that the man buried with such style must have been a great warrior⁴ chieftain, and because all of us want to link finds in the ground with names in the texts, for a long time the favoured candidate was Raedwald, king of the East Angles, mentioned by the Venerable Bede in his History of the Anglo-Saxons and probably the most powerful king in all England around 620.

当然，萨顿胡头盔的主人一定不是诗歌中想象的英雄，而是现实中的某个统治者，只是我们不知道是哪位。人们普遍认为，拥有如此高规 格墓葬的人一定是位势力很大的武士首领。而由于我们都希望能在历史 记载中找到对应的人物，长期以来，我们都倾向于认为他有可能是东盎格魯的国王雷德沃尔德。比德在他的《英吉利教会史》中提到过他，他可能是620年左右全英格兰最强大的国王。

But we can't be sure, and it's quite possible that we may be looking at one of Raedwald's successors or, indeed, at a leader who's left no record at all. So the helmet still floats intriguingly⁵ in an uncertain realm on the margins⁶ of history and imagination. Here's Seamus Heaney again:

但我们无法确定。很可能他只是雷德沃尔德的一位继任者，或是一个完全没有留下任何记录的统洽者。头盔依然充满诱惑力地漂浮在历史与想象之间。谢默斯希尼说：

1 hoard   

n./v.窖藏，贮存，囤积

参考例句：

• They have a hoard of food in the basement.地下室里有他们贮藏的食物。
• How many curios do you hoard in your study?你在你书房里聚藏了多少古玩？

2 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

3 poetic   

adj.富有诗意的，有诗人气质的，善于抒情的

参考例句：

• His poetic idiom is stamped with expressions describing group feeling and thought.他的诗中的措辞往往带有描写群体感情和思想的印记。
• His poetic novels have gone through three different historical stages.他的诗情小说创作经历了三个不同的历史阶段。

4 warrior   

n.勇士，武士，斗士

参考例句：

• The young man is a bold warrior.这个年轻人是个很英勇的武士。
• A true warrior values glory and honor above life.一个真正的勇士珍视荣誉胜过生命。

5 intriguingly   

参考例句：

• Intriguingly, she gave to the music a developed although oddly malleable personality. 最神奇的是，她的音乐具有成熟却又很奇怪地极富可塑性。 来自互联网
• Intriguingly, the patients brains were riddled with tangles, but not amyloid plaques. 有趣的是，患者的大脑中充满了各缠结，但并没有粉斑。 来自互联网

6 margins   

边( margin的名词复数 )； 利润； 页边空白； 差数

参考例句：

• They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
• To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙，加左或者右的margins来定义链接。