策马优课｜《大英博物馆100件文物世界史》双语语音解析（萨顿胡头盔）

借助文物视角，遨游世界历史，本期为大家介绍的藏品是目前发现的盎格鲁—萨克逊的英格兰早期仅有的四顶头盔之一的萨顿胡头盔。...

亲爱的小伙伴们，欢迎来到全新推出的策马优课——《大英博物馆100件文物世界史》，我们将借助文物视角，通过双语语音解析带你遨游世界历史。

本期为大家介绍的藏品是萨顿胡头盔，萨顿胡的头盔是目前发现的盎格鲁—萨克逊的英格兰早期仅有的四顶头盔之一。它们每一顶都和其它三项相比都有很大不同，这表明当时并没有一个共同的设计，而是由铁匠个人根据上层社会主顾的要求制作而成。此件头盔的结构上的那种单片式帽体、护耳和面罩，都是无与伦比的。The discovery of this object – a helmet – was part of one of the great archaeological finds of modern times. It speaks to us across the centuries, of poetry and battle and of a world centred on the North Sea.

At Sutton Hoo, a few miles from the Suffolk coast, one of the most exciting discoveries in British archaeology was made in the summer of 1939. Uncovering the tomb of an Anglo-Saxon who had been buried there in the early 600s, it profoundly changed the way people thought about what had been called the ‘Dark Ages’ – those centuries that followed the collapse of Roman rule in Britain.

It was in this grave ship that the famous Sutton Hoo helmet was found, together with an astonishing range of valuable goods drawn from all over Europe: weapons and armour, elaborate gold jewellery, silver vessels for feasting, and many coins. Nothing like this had ever been found before from Anglo-Saxon England. It is the helmet of a hero, and when it was found, people were at once reminded of the great Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.

The Sutton Hoo grave ship, with its cauldrons, drinking horns and musical instruments, its highly wrought weapons and lavish skins and furs, and not least its hoard of gold and silver, was evidence that Beowulf, far from being just poetic invention, was a surprisingly accurate memory of a splendid, lost, preliterate world.

The very idea of ship burial is Scandinavian, and the Sutton Hoo ship was of a kind that easily crossed the North Sea, so making East Anglia an integral part of a world that included modern Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

The helmet is, as you might expect, of Scandinavian design. But the ship also contained gold coins from France, Celtic hanging bowls from the west of Britain, imperial table silver from Byzantium and garnets which may have come from India or Sri Lanka.These discoveries force us to think differently, not just about the Anglo-Saxons, but about Britain, for, whatever may be the case for the Atlantic side of the country, on the East Anglian side the British have always been part of the wider European story, with contacts, trade and migrations going back thousands of years.●

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