30,000 Vikings settle in iceland in 60 years.
三千維京人在冰島駐扎了六十年
And they set up colonies in greenland.
他們在格陵蘭島建立殖民地
The big crisis in the Viking civilization was farmland.
維京人文明面臨的最大危機就是缺少耕地
So the Vikings would set off to find new farmland,
所以維京人需要出征去尋找新的耕地
and Greenland was one of the big real estate promotions,
而格陵蘭島就是那些龐大不動產之一
they called it green land to get people to move there.
他們稱其為綠色大地就是為了讓人們搬去那里
It's not actually green, you know!
但其實它并不是綠色的
From greenland, they'll push on to North America,
從格林蘭島出發 他們一路前進去到北美
The first Europeans, 500 years before Columbus.
是第一批歐洲人 比哥倫布還要早五百年
By 1000 A.D., Vikings settle
公元一千年 維京人定居在
Among many of the communities they once attacked.
他們曾經攻擊的大多數地區里
Novgorod in russia, kiev in the ukraine,
前蘇聯的諾夫哥羅德 烏克蘭的基輔
Rouen in france, york in england, dublin in ireland,
法國的魯昂 英格蘭的約克 愛爾蘭的都柏林
All transformed into cities by the Vikings.
都在維京人到來之后轉型為城市
They convert to Christianity,
他們變成了基督徒
Replacing pagan shrines with great churches,
在異教的祠堂上重建宏偉的教堂
Reinventing themselves as European knights.
他們重塑自我 自封歐洲騎士