10 Freya’sday Eve on Hysteria

10. FREYA'SDAY EVE ON HYSTERIA When they reached the top of the cliff, the ground kept on rising up to Mount Hysteria, on which was perched the shadowy outline of the Hysterical Village, all in darkness. One Eye dragged them right up to the bottom of the village walls, where Camicazi got out her ropes. She threw up the rope with the metal hook attached, and on the first attempt it caught hold of the top of the wooden wall. She squirmed up it like a little blonde monkey and disappeared over the top. One Eye spread wide his wings and flew after her. Hiccup took a deep breath, grabbed hold of the rope, and climbed up, trying to ignore the skulls grinning at him from the top of the battlements. They were the only visitors to the Hysterical Village in fifteen years. The village seemed at first to be deserted. There was no one in the streets, no light in the windows. But the Great Hall was blazing with light. Smoke billowed out of several chimneys, music and chatter and

10. 歇斯底里的星期五前夕当他们到达悬崖顶上时，地面一直上升到歇斯底里山，歇斯底里村的阴影轮廓就矗立在山顶上，一片漆黑。 “独眼”把他们拖到了村庄的墙脚，卡米卡齐在那里拿出了绳子。 她把系着金属钩的绳子扔了上去，第一次就抓住了木墙的顶部。 她像一只金色的小猴子一样爬了上去，然后从上面消失了。 一只眼睛张开翅膀，飞向她。 小嗝嗝深吸了一口气，抓住绳子，爬了上去，尽量不去理会城垛顶上对他咧嘴笑的骷髅。 他们是15年来唯一来过歇斯底里村的人。 起初，村子里似乎没有人。 街上没有人，窗户里没有灯光。 但是礼堂里灯火通明。 烟从几个烟囱里滚滚冒出来，伴随着音乐声和闲聊声

laughing poured out of the windows. Weirdly, beside the Great Hall, lying on great tree-trunks, there stood the largest Viking ship Hiccup had ever seen. It did seem a trifle strange to keep a ship so far from the sea, but Hiccup supposed the Hysterics hadn't been doing any sailing at all for the last fifteen years, so perhaps the centre of town was as good a place to keep a boat as any. And what a ship it was… It was more the depth and length of a Roman galleon and it was the only Viking longboat Hiccup had ever seen with not one but three masts. On its prow the figurehead dragon was a snarling Monstrous Nightmare, and Hiccup's heart beat a little faster with excitement as he read the name painted on its side in big flowing letters: The American Dream. Perhaps the story Old Wrinkly told him really WAS true… In stark contrast to the ships Hiccup had seen in the harbour, this boat was in tip-top condition. The rest of the village was two metres deep in snow, but The American Dream was spotless, her decks entirely snow- free. She was freshly painted, the Hysterical flag flew cheerily from her central mast and her oars were all out, just as if she were about to set sail for distant shores at a moment's notice.

笑声从窗户里涌出来。 奇怪的是，大厅旁边的大树干上停着一艘希卡普从未见过的最大的海盗船。 把船停在离海这么远的地方似乎有点奇怪，但希卡普猜想，歇斯底里的人在过去的十五年里根本没有航行过，所以也许镇中心是停放船的好地方。 这是一艘多么大的船啊……它的深度和长度都和罗马大帆船差不多，而且这是希卡普见过的唯一一艘不是一根而是三根桅杆的维京长船。 船首的龙头龙是一条咆哮的“可怕的梦魇”，当小嗝嗝读到船舷上用飘逸的大字写着的“美国梦”时，他兴奋得心跳加快了。 也许老皱纹告诉他的故事真的是真的……与小嗝嗝在港口看到的船只形成鲜明对比的是，这艘船处于最佳状态。 村子的其他地方都被两米深的雪覆盖着，但“美国梦”号却一尘不染，甲板上完全没有雪。 “歇斯底里”号的旗帜在中央桅杆上欢快地飘扬，所有的桨都摊开了，仿佛随时都要向遥远的海岸启航似的。

'We'll climb up on to the roof of the Great Hall, and see if we can overhear what's going on,' whispered Camicazi. Camicazi didn't even bother to use a rope this time. She just shinned up the sheer wall, appearing to cling to it with invisible suction like a frog. Once she reached the roof, she let down a rope for Hiccup, and One Eye hauled him up with it. The roof was thigh deep in snow, and Hiccup had to crawl through it, following the path made by Camicazi. She wriggled through to the central chimney, which had no smoke coming out of it, and she and Hiccup peered down into the room below. A blast of heat so strong Hiccup had to close his eyes poured out of the chimney. Hiccup's hands burned as they began to warm up. Eventually his watering eyes adjusted to the heat and the light. Down below, the Hysterics were enjoying a truly magnificent banquet. The long central table was loaded high with fish, flesh and fowl cooked in every possible manner, whole stags, entire pigs, and brimming cups of beer and wine. A big drunken chap was dancing a jig on the table at one end, and the Hysterics were laughing, and throwing bits of food and chair legs at him.

“我们爬到大礼堂的屋顶上去，看看能不能听到正在发生的事情。”卡米卡齐小声说。 卡米卡齐这次甚至都懒得用绳子。 她只是爬上了陡峭的墙壁，似乎像一只青蛙一样用无形的吸力紧紧抓住它。 一到屋顶，她就放下一根绳子，一只眼把小嗝嗝拖了上去。 屋顶上的雪深及大腿，小嗝嗝不得不沿着卡米卡齐开辟的小路爬过去。 她扭动着身子走到中间的烟囱，那里没有烟冒出来，她和小嗝嗝朝下面的房间里看了看。 一股强烈的热气从烟囱里涌了出来，嗝嗝不得不闭上眼睛。 小嗝嗝的手开始暖和起来，开始发烫。 最后，他那流泪的眼睛适应了高温和光线。 在下面，歇斯底里的人正在享受一场真正华丽的宴会。 中央那张长长的桌子上摆着各种各样煮过的鱼、肉和家禽，还有整头牡鹿、整头猪，以及斟满的啤酒和葡萄酒。 一个大个儿醉汉在桌子一头跳吉格舞，歇斯底里的人笑着，把食物和椅子腿扔向他。

Fires blazed in six huge fireplaces. Enormous white rugs made out of the skin of polar bears were strewn about the floor. Hanging on the walls were the heads of dragons of every possible size, colour and description. And also the heads of a couple of animals Hiccup had never seen before, one that looked like an enormous, depressed deer, and another that resembled a gigantic bull with black curly hair. A map of the Barbaric World drawn on deerskin was hanging in a great curtain against the north wall. On the west of the map, someone had scribbled out the great tumbling waterfall which on most Viking maps was marked 'End of the World', and replaced it with a crude charcoal drawing of an island it called AMERICA. With a sinking of the heart, Hiccup recognised a big blond bearded bloke sitting on a throne as the Chief, Norbert the Nutjob. It was definitely the Big Brute who Hiccup had shot with an arrow in the bottom the day before.

六个大壁炉里燃烧着火焰。 用北极熊皮做成的巨大的白色地毯散落在地板上。 墙上挂着各种大小、颜色和形状的龙头。 还有两只小嗝嗝以前从未见过的动物的头，一只看起来像一只巨大的、忧郁的鹿，另一只看起来像一头长着黑色卷发的巨大公牛。 一幅用鹿皮绘制的野蛮世界地图挂在靠北墙的大窗帘上。 在地图的西面，有人用潦草的笔画去了在大多数维京人的地图上被标记为“世界尽头”的巨大瀑布，并用粗糙的炭笔画上了一个他们称之为美洲的岛屿。 小嗝嗝的心往下一沉，他认出了坐在宝座上的一个长着金发大胡子的大块头，他就是头儿——疯子诺伯。 这肯定是前一天嗝嗝用箭射中的那只大畜生。