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On the surface, everything is idyllic...imagine a broad green field in Yorkshire. In the distance rolling hills, woods and a light morning mist-it's the epitome of a peaceful, unchanging England. But scratch this surface-or more appropriately, wave a metal detector over it-and a very different England emerges, a land of violence and panic, not at all secure behind its defending sea, but terrifyingly vulnerable to invasion. And it was in a field like this, 1,100 years ago, that a frightened man buried a great collection of silver, jewellery and coins, that linked this part of England to what would then have seemed unimaginably distant parts of the world-to Russia, the Middle East and Asia. The man was a Viking, and this was his treasure.
放眼望去，約克郡一派詩意：遼闊的綠油油的田野，綿延的遠山，籠罩清晨的薄霧。這正是安寧而恒久的英格蘭的縮影，但如果刨開表面，更準(zhǔn)確地說，如果拿著金屬探測器在地面揮動一番，一個迥異的英格蘭就會浮現(xiàn)。這曾是一片充斥若暴力與恐慌的土地，海洋并沒能成為她天然的屏障,她對人侵者奄無抵抗之力。1100年前,正是在這片土地上，一位驚惶的男士埋下了大量的白銀，珠寶與錢幣。這批寶藏將英格蘭與當(dāng)時遙遠得幾乎無從想象的俄羅斯，中東和亞洲聯(lián)系了起來。這位埋下自己寶藏的是個維京人。
