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Mythology is an amazing thing-within it there are endless amounts of stories and myths, and many have seeped into our common perception of culture. The best stories, however, are the treasures, the devices and gifts that men spend their lives searching for in the name of glory, honor, and adventure. Unfortunately, some of them end up dying at the hands of killer rabbits and black beasts (I'm looking at you King Arthur). So, in the name of all things glorious and rabbit-like, let’s tell the stories of 10 mythological treasures.
神話——包含數不清的故事和傳說，本身就是一個傳奇。在潛移默化中，許多神話已經成為我們文化共識的一部分。然而，最好的故事總是和寶藏相關的。人們以聲望、榮譽和冒險為名，窮盡終生，只為一探這些來自上天的寶具和禮物。其中一部分人最終死在了殺人兔子和黑色猛獸的手下（亞瑟王躺槍，這個典故來自著名的惡搞電影《巨蟒與圣杯》，亞瑟王與圓桌騎士在城堡中大戰殺人兔子和黑色猛獸）。因此，以所有關乎榮譽和像兔子一樣萌萌噠的事物為名，讓我們說一說神話中出現的十大珍寶。
10、The Mead Of Poetry
詩人的蜂蜜酒
Norse Mythology
挪威神話
We all like a fine drink every now and then, but when you're a god, you can't just have any mortal liquor. The Norse pantheon has a very strange drink indeed—the Mead of Poetry. The story behind the mead goes that there was once a man named Kvasir, a human forged from divine spit who was the smartest man in the known world. One day, Kvasir was killed by two dwarves who, in their jealousy, made from his blood a fine mead that granted anyone who drank it Kvasir's intelligence
我們常常想要來一杯美酒，但是如果你是個神，你就不能喝那些凡人的酒了。挪威諸神有一種非常奇怪的酒——詩人的蜂蜜酒。在這個蜂蜜酒背后的故事是：曾經有一個叫Kvasir的智者，他由眾神的唾沫所生，注定成為已知世界中最聰明的人。終于有一天，他被兩個矮人所殺。出于嫉妒，這兩個矮人將他的血轉化成一種美妙的蜂蜜酒，喝下它的人將被給予Kvasir的智慧。
Eventually, the mead came into the ownership of the giant Suttung, who was tricked out of the mead by the king of the gods, Odin. Odin, on his journey back to Asgard, lost some of the mead (by regurgitation) from Asgard and it fell to Midgard, our world. Anyone who was touched by the mead became the terrible poets and scholars, while the greatest were the ones doused with the mead by Odin personally.
最終，這種蜂蜜酒歸于火焰巨人Suttung之手，但是火焰巨人被眾神之王奧丁所騙，蜂蜜酒被奧丁奪走（喝到了肚子里）。奧丁在返回神域途中，因為反芻吐出了一些酒，這些酒落到了人類之國，也就是我們的世界當中。所有被這些蜂蜜酒淋到的人類都變成了糟糕的詩人和學者，而真正偉大的詩人都是被奧丁親自用蜂蜜酒洗滌過的人。
