The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda

It would seem fitting for a Northern folk, deriving the greater and better part of their speech, laws, and customs from a Northern root, that the North should be to them, if not a holy land, yet at least a place more to be regarded than any part of the world beside.

对于一个北方民族来说，他们的语言、法律和习俗主要源自北方，因此北方对他们来说，即使不是圣地，至少也比世界上其他任何地方更值得重视。

Even that Englishman who knew Alfred, Bede, Caedmon, as well as he knew Plato, Caesar, Cicero, or Pericles, would be hard bestead were he asked about the great peoples from whom we sprang.

即使是那些像了解柏拉图、凯撒、西塞罗或伯里克利一样了解阿尔弗雷德、比德、凯德蒙的英国人，如果被问到我们源自哪些伟大民族，也会感到困难重重。