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Lesson 1 The Spirit of Explorers
第一課 探險家精神
Viking Voyages To America
納維亞人航行去美洲
The Vikings were the first Europeans to reach America.
納維亞人是第一批到達美洲的歐洲人。
They achieved this long before Columbus ever set sail.
他們達到美洲很久以后，哥倫布才啟航。
The Vikings were a group of people whose ancestors came from Scandinavia.
納維亞人的祖先來自斯堪的納維亞半島。
They controlled the seas and coasts of Northern Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries AD.
公元8世紀到10世紀，他們控制著北歐的海域及沿岸地區。
By around 900 AD, there were many places in Northern Europe where the Vikings chose to live.
到公元900年左右，納維亞人可以在北歐的許多地方隨意居住。
In 982 AD, when a man called Eric the Red decided to set sail further west,
公元982年，一個叫埃里克·雷德的人決定啟航去更遠的西部時，
there were as many as 10,000 Vikings living in Iceland.
有1萬個納維亞人住在冰島。
According to the old stories of Iceland and Norway,
根據冰島和挪威的傳說，
Eric the Red was forced to leave Iceland because he had committed a murder, for which he got into trouble.
埃里克·雷德因一起謀殺，而被迫離開冰島。
Eric reached Greenland and discovered that people could live in the place where he landed.
埃里克到達格陵蘭島后發現，人們可以在他登陸的這個地方居住。
He returned to Iceland and told people there about Greenland.
他回到冰島，告訴人們有關格陵蘭島的事。
He persuaded some people to go back with him to Greenland.
他說服一些人與他一起回到了格陵蘭島。
