On the surface, everything is idyllic...imagine a broad green field in Yorkshire. In the distance rolling hills, woods and a light morning mist-it's the epitome of a peaceful, unchanging England. But scratch this surface-or more appropriately, wave a metal detector over it-and a very different England emerges, a land of violence and panic, not at all secure behind its defending sea, but terrifyingly vulnerable to invasion. And it was in a field like this, 1,100 years ago, that a frightened man buried a great collection of silver, jewellery and coins, that linked this part of England to what would then have seemed unimaginably distant parts of the world-to Russia, the Middle East and Asia. The man was a Viking, and this was his treasure.
n. 摘要,缩影,化身