Lesson 1 The Spirit of Explorers
第一课 探险家精神
Viking Voyages To America
纳维亚人航行去美洲
The Vikings were the first Europeans to reach America.
纳维亚人是第一批到达美洲的欧洲人。
They achieved this long before Columbus ever set sail.
他们达到美洲很久以后，哥伦布才启航。
The Vikings were a group of people whose ancestors came from Scandinavia.
纳维亚人的祖先来自斯堪的纳维亚半岛。
They controlled the seas and coasts of Northern Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries AD.
公元8世纪到10世纪，他们控制着北欧的海域及沿岸地区。
By around 900 AD, there were many places in Northern Europe where the Vikings chose to live.
到公元900年左右，纳维亚人可以在北欧的许多地方随意居住。
In 982 AD, when a man called Eric the Red decided to set sail further west,
公元982年，一个叫埃里克·雷德的人决定启航去更远的西部时，
there were as many as 10,000 Vikings living in Iceland.
有1万个纳维亚人住在冰岛。
According to the old stories of Iceland and Norway,
根据冰岛和挪威的传说，
Eric the Red was forced to leave Iceland because he had committed a murder, for which he got into trouble.
埃里克·雷德因一起谋杀，而被迫离开冰岛。
Eric reached Greenland and discovered that people could live in the place where he landed.
埃里克到达格陵兰岛后发现，人们可以在他登陆的这个地方居住。
He returned to Iceland and told people there about Greenland.
他回到冰岛，告诉人们有关格陵兰岛的事。
He persuaded some people to go back with him to Greenland.
他说服一些人与他一起回到了格陵兰岛。