Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"This is -" After taking the yellowed book from the butler's hand, Liang En turned it over with curiosity. After turning a few pages, his attention was caught by the black and white photos in the photo album. Attracted past.

The subject of the photo is a rune on a stone tablet. Liang En had obtained the card [Viking (SR)] before. He quickly recognized what the runes on this stone tablet were carving.

Engraved on the stone tablet is a short poem, describing the story of an explorer known as the Red-Haired Son who traveled west from Greenland and finally found a new land called Vinland.

It’s just that this story adheres to the epic writing habit of the Middle Ages, using a lot of pen and ink to describe the origin of the expedition, the experiences in the middle, and the fertility and wealth of the final destination, but it lacks a lot of specific circumstances.

For example, one of the biggest problems is that the poem spends 1/3 of its length describing their final destination, Vinland. But you can't tell where this Vinland is at all.

Although this poem mentions a place called Vinland, which is rich in grapes that can be used to make wine and wood that can be used to make houses and ships, it is difficult to say that this is a clue.

The reason why I say this is because in ancient Viking poetry and legends, wine and wood have special meanings to the Vikings, and sometimes they are even just symbolic symbols.

For example, wine has always been regarded as the most important drink by the Vikings. Without wine, they would think that life was incomplete. Only life with wine to drink is real life.

At the same time, the Vikings needed wood to make houses, ships, various tools, utensils, etc., and also needed wood as fuel. Therefore, wood is as necessary for them as food, water and even air.

Therefore, in some Viking poems, having enough wine and wood is often used to describe someone's life as being very wealthy, or that a certain area is very fertile. Just like Oriental China said, the ground is full of gold.

"The stone tablet is engraved with a poem about adventure." After reading the runes, Liang En quickly said to the butler in front of him. "The story of an explorer's journey westward in a ship."

"You actually understand runes - by the way, since you can decipher ancient Egyptian texts, it shouldn't be difficult to master a few more languages." Obviously, Mr. Butler had paid attention to Liang En before, so he also knew that he had recently academic achievements.

After seeing that Liang En could read the text on the photos, the housekeeper nodded with satisfaction, then took out a tablet computer from his luggage and showed him a series of reproduced photos.

The photos show a few pages from a diary. Judging from the content of these pages, the person who wrote the diary should be the person who took the photos.

In the diary, the photographer believed that Vinland existed, and he planned to lead a scientific expedition team from Greenland after the war, and then search for traces of this group of European immigrants who may have been the first to go to the Americas.

"The matter that Your Excellency Earl wants to entrust you is related to these photos." After seeing Liang En read these photos, Mr. Butler told him his commission.

"Please rest assured that this is an unlimited commission, and the content of the commission is that I hope you can find the location of Wenlan described in this stone tablet——"

Then, the steward told the origin of the matter. Since Liang En found the remains of Master Dulis last time, the earl sent his men to follow the remains of Master Dulis and find more of his footprints in Finland.

Among these clues, the most important one comes from a key and a bronze medal found on the remains. Following two things, they found this photo album and another notebook from a safe in a Finnish bank.

The photo album is the one Liang En is seeing now, and the photos he saw on the tablet just now are the records related to the photos in that notebook.

Because His Excellency the Earl is in poor health now, he hopes to do something for this uncle whom he met once or twice when he was very young before his death.

After reading the diary recorded in the notebook, the Earl realized that he could find a way to find someone to take the adventure and prove his uncle's conjecture.

"The old master is in very poor health and does not have a legal heir. So he hopes to complete this matter before his death and leave his family's name in history." The butler vaguely introduced the mission. s reason.

After listening to the butler's words, Liang En felt that he could understand the count's approach. After all, a leopard's death leaves its skin, and a man's death leaves its name, so it is normal for the earl to want to leave a reputation.

"I plan to take on this task, but before that, I need to ask you a few questions." After thinking for a few minutes, Liang En decided to take on the task, but before that, he hoped to get more information about it. information.

“The first question is, where is the original monument of this stone monument now?”

"The original stone tablet has been destroyed." Mr. Butler said with regret.

"In fact, after we found this photo album, we immediately went to look for the stone tablet. It turned out that the stone tablet was originally located near Viborg, Finland, and had completely disappeared during the war."

"Well, if there is no stone tablet, it will be more troublesome." Liang En shook his head helplessly. To be honest, it is normal for such a stone tablet to appear in Finland.

After all, the scope of Viking activities included the entire Northern Europe, and southern Finland was one of the several territories where the Vikings were based. Therefore, it is not surprising that someone recorded Viking epics in other regions.

"After discovering this thing, we also went to Iceland to search for information about the Vikings before Christianity was introduced to Iceland." The butler added another piece of information as if he suddenly remembered something.

"Although a large number of ancient records were destroyed due to the multiple changes in religion on the island, through our efforts in searching, we found some fragments from several parchments."

As he spoke, the butler opened another folder on the tablet, and the photos in this folder were all covered with blackened-looking parchment fragments.

Although there is not much text on the fragments, the contents on these parchments are also very scattered. But this did not stop Liang En from sorting out the contents on the parchment.

Just as Mr. Butler said, the epics written on these parchments are the same as those on the stone tablets, except that the words and sentences are slightly different in some small places.

In other words, the stone tablet taken in the previous photo is not just an isolated example. There are multiple pieces of evidence that prove the existence of Vinland.

This cross-proof also makes the place Wenlan real, rather than just some cultural symbol similar to Shangri-La that appears in poetry.

"I need some time to sort out the existing evidence and make a final decision." Liang En finally said to the housekeeper, and asked the housekeeper to send the previous pictures, including the digitized album photos. to your own mailbox.