Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 99
"This is—" After taking the yellowed book in the housekeeper's hand, Liang En flipped through it curiously. After turning a few pages, his attention was caught by the black and white photos in the photo album attracted to the past.

The subject of the photograph is a rune on a stone tablet.And Liang En got the [Vikings (SR)] card before.It didn't take long to recognize what the rune carvings on the stele were.

Carved on the stele is a very short poem, describing the story of an explorer known as the Ginger Son who traveled west from Greenland and finally found a new land called Vinland.

It’s just that this story follows the epic writing habit of the Middle Ages, and uses a lot of pen and ink to describe the cause of the expedition, the experience in the middle, and the fertility and richness of the final destination, but it lacks a lot of specific situations.

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

Although this poem mentions this 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, but this is hardly a clue.

The reason for saying this is that in ancient Viking poems and legends, wine and wood have special meanings for Vikings, and sometimes they are 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 is incomplete. Only a life with wine to drink is a real life.

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

So in some Viking poems, having plenty of wine and wood is often used to describe a person's life is very rich, or a certain area is very rich.Just like what Dongfang Huaxia said was full of gold.

"Inscribed on the stele is a poem about exploration." After reading the runes, Liang En quickly said to the butler in front of him. "Tells the story of an explorer traveling westward in a ship."

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

Seeing that Liang En could understand the text on the photos, the housekeeper nodded in satisfaction, then took out a tablet computer from his carry-on luggage, and showed him a series of re-taken photos.

The content shown in the photo is a few pages in a diary. Judging from the content of these few pages, the person who wrote the diary should be the photographer of these photos.

In the diary, the photographer believed that Vinland existed, and he planned to set off from Greenland with a scientific expedition team after the war, and then search for traces of these European immigrants who may have been the first to go to America.

"The Earl's entrustment to you is related to these photos." After seeing Liang En finished reading these photos, Mr. Butler told his request.

"Please don't worry, this is an unlimited commission, and the content of the commission is that you can find the location of Wenlan described in this stele—"

Then, the butler talked about the cause of the incident.Since Liang En found the remains of the young master Duris last time, the earl sent his men to follow the things left on the remains of the young master Duris to find more of his footprints in Finland.

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

Among them, the photo album is the one Liang En saw 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, 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 risks and prove his uncle's conjecture.

"The old master is in poor health, and he doesn't have a legal heir. So he hopes to complete this task before he dies, and leave his family's name in history." The butler introduced the mission vaguely. s reason.

After listening to the butler's words, Liang En felt that he could understand the Earl's actions.After all, leopards die to leave their skins, and people die to leave their names, so it is normal for the earl to want to leave a reputation.

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

"The first question is, where is the original stele of this stele now?"

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

"Actually, after we found this photo album, we immediately searched for the stele. It turned out that the stele was originally near Vyborg, Finland, and had completely disappeared during the war."

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

After all, the scope of Viking activities includes the whole of Northern Europe, and the southern part of Finland belongs to one of the several places where the Vikings were based. Therefore, it is not surprising that some people have recorded the epics of Vikings in other regions.

"After discovering this thing, we went to Iceland to inquire about the information of 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 multiple changes in the island's religion, we have found some fragments from several parchment materials through our hard work."

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

Although there are not many words on the fragments, and the contents of these parchments are also very scattered.But this didn't stop Liang En from sorting out the contents of the parchment.

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

That is to say, the stele in the previous photo is not just an isolated case, there are multiple evidences at the same time proving the existence of this place in Vinland.

This kind of cross-proof also makes Vinland a real place, rather than a cultural symbol like Shangri-La that just appeared in poetry.

"I need some time to sort out the existing evidence and make a final decision." Liang En finally said to the butler, and at the same time asked the butler to pass on the previous pictures, including the digitized album photos. to your mailbox.

(End of this chapter)