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And the ship is 27 metres long, so it's longer than the biggest of the ocean-going yachts. It's a really massive ship, it's the biggest, most complete Anglo-Saxon ship ever found."
船體長達27米，是已知最大最完整的盎格魯-撒克遜時期的船只。
We're inland. Why would anybody here want to be buried in a ship?
我們身處的是內(nèi)陸，那為何有人會希望被葬在船上？
"Ships were very important to these people. The rivers and the sea were their means of communication. It was much easier to go by water than it was by land at this time, so that people, say, in modern Swindon, would have been on the edge of the world to these people. Whereas people in Denmark and Holland would be close neighbours."
對當時的盎格魯撒克遜人來說，船只極為重要。河流與海洋是他們主要的交通路徑。在那時，水路交通比陸路方便得多。因此，當時居住在現(xiàn)代斯溫頓的人對他們來說無異于居住在世界盡頭，而丹麥和荷蘭則是他們的近鄰。
And the big question of course - for anybody looking at the grave and what was found in the grave - is that there's no body.
當然最大的謎團—對任何人看著墳墓,墳墓中斯所發(fā)現(xiàn)的是沒有尸體。
Where do you think the body is?
你覺得身體在哪里?
"Well, the absence of the body was a bit of a mystery when the excavation happened, and people wondered whether this could be a cenotaph - i.e. a burial where the body had been lost - so it's a sort of symbolic burial if you like. But nowadays we think a body was buried in the grave, but because of these special acidic conditions of this soil it just dissolved away. What you have to remember is that a ship is a water-tight vessel, and when you put it in the ground the water percolating through the soil builds up in it and it basically forms an acid bath in which all these organic things like the body and the leatherwork and the wood dissolve away, leaving nothing."
人們曾認為這可能是個衣冠冢，是無法得到逝者尸體時的一種象征性墓葬。但我們現(xiàn)在認為，它的確曾埋葬過逝者，只是當?shù)靥厥獾乃嵝酝寥婪纸饬怂惺 Ｄ阒溃遣煌杆模蚨袢氲叵轮螅嗤林形龀龅乃种饾u匯聚其中，基本上形成了一個注 滿酸性液體的浴缸。一切有機物如尸體、皮革、木頭等都被溶解, 因而消失了。
We still don't know who that owner was, but the Sutton Hoo helmet put a face on an elusive past, a face that has ever since gazed sternly out from books, magazines and newspapers. It's become one of the iconic objects of Britain's history.
我們至今仍未了解這艘船的主人是誰。但薩頓胡頭盔給了這段難以捉摸的歷史一張面孔，一張自發(fā)現(xiàn)以后便不斷出現(xiàn)在書籍、報紙和雜志上， 莊重地凝視著人們的面孔。它已成為英國史的代表性物品之一。
