《维京不列颠》内容简介

　　对我们很多人来说，看到"维京"两个字，脑海中便会浮现出公元1066年"诺曼征服"之前的几个昏暗世纪里，渡海而来的蛮暴强盗在不列颠海岸烧杀抢掠、无恶不作的画面。维京时代的不列颠，的确动荡不安，暴行肆虐。诸多国王和军事领主追求显赫的声名，以图彪炳史册，仅看他们的名字就令人热血沸腾、想象无限："八字胡"斯韦恩、"刚勇者"埃德蒙、"无骨者"伊瓦尔、阿尔弗雷德大帝、"血斧王"埃里克、"平息者"埃德加，等等。这些人残忍、专权、贪婪、傲慢以及坚毅、智慧的证据，依然不时地从不列颠的土地中被挖掘出来。

　　但，这并非全部。

　　托马斯·威廉斯是大英博物馆《维京人：生命与传奇》展览的策展人。在本书中，借鉴作为策展人的经验，他娓娓讲述了那些被我们称为"维京人"的族群来到不列颠的故事：他们不仅袭击和抢劫，还定居、殖民和统治。维京人对这些岛屿的影响深刻而又持久，在数百年的时间里，意外塑造了不列颠社会、文化和政治的发展。的确，在不列颠的语言、文学、地名和民间传说中，依然能够感受到斯堪的纳维亚移民的存在，而关于他们的那些悠远记忆，经由J.R.R.托尔金、威廉·莫里斯和G.K.切斯特顿等作家的过滤和再现，改变了西方人的想象。

　　本书不落俗套，运用学术研究的新成果和作者多年研究，深度挖掘维京人及其同时代人在不列颠群岛留下的遗物、走过的山川地形，包括如尼石碑和船葬、定居点和战场、诗歌和编年史，补上了一段缺失已久的历史之环。透过本书，读者将重新认识那个被遗忘的世界，重新了解它对英国历史的影响以及对当今世界的启示。

　　作者简介

　　托马斯·威廉斯（ThomasWilliams），英国作家、历史学家。他于伦敦大学学院获得博士学位后，在剑桥大学负责历史和考古学的教学和讲座工作。2014年负责策划大型国际展览《维京人：生命与传奇》，还在大英博物馆担任《中世纪早期货币》的策展人。其代表作《哈拉尔国王传奇：最后的维京探险》（TheTaleofKingHarald:TheLastVikingAdventure）重述了"无情者"哈拉尔的传奇故事。

　　曹军，山东师范大学外国语学院副教授，长期从事翻译工作，参与出版译薯100余万字，涉及历史、文化、心理、教育等学科，代表译著有《征服的怒糊》《我懂你：如何运用“第六感”提高洞察力》《执着的天才》等。

　　于秀秀，翻译硕士，毕北于山东邮范大学，目前已累计翻译100命万中，代表译著有《大历史，小世界》《量子通史》《数下家、间谍与黑客》等。

A brief introduction to Viking Britain

For many of us, the word "Viking" conjures up images of brutal bandits crossing the sea in the dark centuries before the "Norman Conquest" of 1066, looting and pillaging the British coast. It's true that Britain during the Viking age was turbulent and violent. Many Kings and military lords sought to make their mark in the annals of history, and their names alone stirred the blood and imagination: Swain the Moustache, Edmund the Brave, Ivar the Boneless, Alfred the Great, Eric the Bloodaxe, Edgar the Pacifying, and so on. Evidence of the cruelty, the tyranny, the greed, the arrogance, and the perseverance and wisdom of these men is still being dug up from time to time from the soil of Britain.

But that's not all.

Thomas Williams is the curator of Vikings: Lives and Legends at the British Museum. Drawing on his experience as a curator, he tells the story of the people we call the Vikings who came to Britain not only to raid and loot, but also to settle, colonise and rule. The Vikings' influence on the islands was deep and lasting, shaping the social, cultural and political development of Britain for hundreds of years. Indeed, the presence of Scandinavian immigrants can still be felt in British language, literature, place names and folklore, and their distant memories are remembered through J.R.R. Filtered and reproduced by writers such as Tolkien, William Morris and G.K. Chesterton, they transformed the Western imagination.

Using new scholarship and years of research, this unconventional book digs deep into what the Vikings and their contemporaries left behind in the British Isles, the mountains and terrain they traveled, including Rune tablets and ship burials, settlements and battlefields, poetry and Chronicles, filling in a long missing link in history. Through this book, readers will rediscover that forgotten world, its impact on British history and its implications for the world today.

About the author

ThomasWilliams was an English writer and historian. After receiving his doctorate from University College London, he taught and lectured in history and archaeology at Cambridge University. In 2014, he curated the major international exhibition Vikings: Life and Legend, and was curator of Early Medieval Money at the British Museum. His masterpiece "the legendary king harald:" the last Viking exploration of (TheTaleofKingHarald: TheLastVikingAdventure) recounts "relentless" the legend of harald.

Cao Jun, Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Shandong Normal University, has been engaged in translation work for a long time. He has been involved in the publication and translation of more than 1 million words of potato, covering history, culture, psychology, education and other disciplines. His translations include "Conquering Anger", "I Understand You: How to Use the" Sixth Sense "to Improve Insight" and "Persistent Genius".

Yu Xiuxiu, with a master's degree in translation from Shandong Postfan University, has translated over 1 million lives, including Big History, Small World, Quantum History, and The Number of Spies and Hackers.