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再探松加德
对诺德传说中的勇士大厅松加德的探讨
死亡。这是我们每个人都会面对的东西。不过，真的是这样的吗？
只要随口问问身边最近的诺德人对死亡的看法，你很有可能会听到一个悲壮的赞颂着勇气伴随着血肉横飞的场景的惊悚的故事。死亡的意义可能比普通的诺德战士所认识到的包含着更多的东西。最新证据表明，勇敢的诺德战士可以在战死后以力量和技巧的形态永生。但是为了完全理解诺德人在死后的永恒的生命，我们首先要回顾一下那些围绕着战士们归息的传奇地点——松加德的传说。
根据诺德人古老的记载以及世代口耳相传下来的故事，在很久很久以前的精灵纪元末期，有一个非常豪华，非常神圣的地方。然而它的入口，却是隐蔽的很好。那就是名为松加德的城市，这是天神朔尔为了赋予那些证明了自己在战争中的勇气的诺德人以荣耀而建造的。在这座松加德里，时间已经显得毫无意义了。生与死的概念都被留在的门口，殿内只存在着自给自足的快感，没有痛苦，没有折磨，也没有诺德人最不能忍受的——烦闷无聊的生活。
但是光是去松加德的入口有多隐蔽这个话题就已经在学术上争论已久，并且有些人认为朔尔所建造的神殿不过是个传说罢了，因为到现在为止也没有哪个经历过松加德之奇迹的诺德人能回来诉说那段经历。然而这却没有让人停止搜寻。一些诺德人花了一生的时间来找到通往松加德的入口。其中的大多数人都无功而返，心中装满了沉重的失败。他们永远不会知道征服没有终点的旅程就像饮用一壶饮之不竭的蜂蜜酒一样的快乐。
有一些人可能会问，是否通往松加德的入口与死亡有关呢？所有的一切都在赛瑞迪尔的一户消亡的诺德人的家中阁楼里的一堆古老的羊皮卷中揭开了答案。这些已开始被以为是情书的羊皮卷后来被证实是一个叫做菲尔迦·四指的灵媒与一位名为拉尔夫的诺德战士的鬼魂之间互相联系的信件。
根据羊皮纸上所述，拉尔夫花了毕生精力来找到通往松加德的入口，未果。在他回到他在天际的村子的途中被一群巨人拦路打劫了。拉尔夫英勇搏斗，不过他还是很快就被杀害了，随后巨人们居然拿着他的头颅开始玩耍。令人惊讶的是，这些景象都被缓缓升天的鬼魂形态的拉尔夫看在眼里，他越飘越高进入天堂，而当他最后终于到达的时候，他发现……他已经在松加德的豪华大殿之中了！
拉尔夫简直无法相信他的好运气，并且他还深深责备自己多年前不得要领的愚笨。原来死亡就是通往松加德的入口。天神朔尔像兄弟般热情的迎接了伟大的拉尔夫，并且亲自给了他一个烤羊腿和一位美丽的姑娘。天神朔尔告诉他，松加德的大门为所有在光荣的战斗中英勇牺牲的诺德人打开。
是时候让所有的诺德人知道真相了。永恒的生命就是他们的，这并不需要他们花一辈子有限的生命来追求在他们这一阶段永远无法触及的永生。到头来，所有英勇的诺德战士都能进入松加德。在战场上被肢解，斩首或者被切除内脏似乎只是进入并在天神朔尔所建的大殿中享受永生的小小的代价而已。
Sovngarde: A Reexamination
Sovngarde: A Reexamination
Speculation regarding Sovngarde, the Nordic Hall of Valor
Death. It is something we all face. Or do we?
Just ask the nearest Nord what he thinks of the end of life, and you'll likely be treated to a horrific story of blood, bone and viscera, of courageous deeds and heartbreaking sorrow. Carnage notwithstanding, there may be even more to death than the average Nord warrior realizes. New evidence suggests a life beyond the battlefield, where a valiant Nord may live forever, downing mead and engaging in contests of strength and skill. But in order to fully understand the possibility of a Nord's eternal life after death, one must first reexamine the legends surrounding that most wondrous of warrior's retreats - Sovngarde.
According to the ancient writings and oral traditions of the Nords, going back as far as the Late Merethic Era, there exists a place so magnificent, so honored, that the entrance lies hidden from view. Sovngarde, it is called, built by the god Shor to honor those Nords who have proven their mettle in war. Within this "Hall of Valor" time as we know it has no meaning. The concepts of life and death are left on the doorstep, and those within exist in a sort of self-contained euphoria, free of pain, suffering and the worst malady a Nord could suffer - boredom.
But just how well hidden the entrance to Sovngarde is has been a matter of much scholarly debate, and there are those who believe Shor's great hall is just a myth, for there are no actual accounts from Nords who have experienced the wonders of Sovngarde then returned to tell the tale. Not that this has stopped anyone from looking. Some Nords spend a lifetime searching for the mysterious hidden entrance to Sovngarde. Most return home sad and broken, their hearts heavy with failure. They'll never know the pleasure of a mead flagon that never empties, or a wrestling tournament without end.
What, some may ask, does the entrance to Sovngarde have to do with death? Everything, according to a series of ancient parchments recently discovered in the attic of a deceased Nord's home in Cyrodiil. What at first seemed to be a series of love letters was later found to be a correspondence between one Felga Four-Fingers, a medium of some note, and the ghost of a Nord warrior named Rolf the Large.
According to the parchments, Rolf had spent his entire life searching for the entrance to Sovngarde, without success. He was returning home to his village of Skyrim when he was waylaid by a band of giants. Rolf fought bravely, but was quickly killed, and the giants proceeded to play catch with his head. Amazingly, all of this was seen by Rolf in ghostly form as he drifted away from the scene, soaring upwards into the heavens, where he finally arrived... in the magnificent hall of Sovngarde!
Rolf could not believe his good fortune, and his foolishness for not having realized the truth so many years before. For death was the entrance to Sovngarde. So he was told by Shor himself, who greeted Rolf the Large as a brother, and personally handed him a leg of roast mutton and the hand of a comely wench. Sovngarde, Shor told him, can be entered by any Nord who dies valiantly in honorable combat.
It is time for Nords to learn the truth. Eternal life can be theirs, without the need to spend an entire mortal life in vain pursuit of something completely unattainable. In the end, all valiant Nords can enter Sovngarde. Dismemberment, decapitation or evisceration seems a small price to pay for the chance to spend an eternity in Shor's wondrous hall.
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