14 What Happened Back in the Murderous Mountains

14. WHAT HAPPENED BACK IN THE MURDEROUS MOUNTAINS Several weeks earlier, back in the Murderous Mountains, it looked like Madguts would have the glory of being Last Man Back. He lasted for forty-one hours out there in the water, which, even when covered with a thin layer of Deepest Purple Fleshfang Oil, is an almost superhuman feat. He was greeted by a cheering crowd of Viking Tribesmen on the Long Beach as he strode out of the waves, arms held above his head in victory, Gumboil trotting a few steps in front of him. The Chief Judge, the sad little Bashem-Oik, rushed up the beach to meet Madguts. He gave him a golden medal, and a pipe that Madguts jammed between his lips as he made a Victory Lap of the Beach, acknowledging the cheering. Gumboil bowed towards the Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race Committee. 'My Master greets the Judges, and claims the Victory of being the Last Man Back in this Swimming Contest. And as Last Man Back, according to the Rules, he may make a single

14. 几个星期前，回到杀人山脉，看起来Madguts将获得最后一个回来的人的荣耀。 他在水里坚持了41个小时，即使有一层薄薄的深紫色肉牙油覆盖，这也几乎是超人的壮举。 他在长滩上受到一群欢呼的维京部落人的欢迎，他大步走出海浪，双臂高举在头顶，表示胜利，Gumboil在他前面小跑了几步。 首席法官，悲伤的小巴什姆欧克，冲到海滩上迎接疯胆量。 他给了他一枚金牌，还有一根烟斗，当他绕着海滩胜利一圈时，他把烟斗塞在嘴唇间，感谢欢呼。 Gumboil向部落间友好游泳比赛委员会鞠躬。 “我的主人向裁判们打招呼，并宣布他是这次游泳比赛中最后一个回来的人。 作为最后一个回来的人，根据规则，他可能会打单

demand of the losing Chieftains, Stoick and Bertha.' Poor Stoick was sitting with his head in his hands. Stoick was not a natural worrier, but he was now terribly concerned about the fate of his son, Hiccup. Now he got to his feet and roared, 'But Hiccup is not back! My son may yet return and claim the prize himself!' It was a desperate hope, but Stoick was clinging to it. Madguts grinned an unpleasant grin with not enough teeth in it. He whispered in his assistant's ear. 'My Master points out, respectfully,' Gumboil bowed in the direction of Stoick and Bertha, 'that Stoick's son, Hiccup, Bertha's daughter, Camicazi, and the odd looking boy they call Fishlegs, are most likely to have DROWNED in the very first hours of the Competition…' 'NO!' bellowed Stoick, with an anger born of fear. The Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race Committee nodded wisely and sadly to each other. It did seem likely at this point. 'This is true,' admitted the Chief Judge solemnly. 'For Snotface Snotlout here reports that he and Dogsbreath the Duhbrain saw Hiccup and the other two in difficulties. He tried to help them…'

败诉的酋长斯托伊克和伯莎的要求。”可怜的斯托伊克双手抱着头坐在那里。 斯托伊克并不是一个天生的杞人忧天的人，但他现在非常担心儿子Hiccup的命运。 现在他站了起来，吼道：“可是Hiccup还没有回来！我的儿子也许会回来亲自领奖！”这是一个绝望的希望，但斯托伊克坚持着。 疯子咧嘴一笑，龇牙咧嘴。 他在助手耳边低声说。 “我的主人恭敬地指出，”Gumboil朝斯托伊克和伯莎的方向鞠了一躬，“斯托伊克的儿子Hiccup，伯莎的女儿Camicazi，还有那个长相古怪的男孩，他们管他叫鱼腿，很可能在比赛开始的几个小时内就淹死了……”斯托伊克怒吼道，他的愤怒源自恐惧。 部落间友好游泳竞赛委员会明智而悲伤地相互点头。 在这一点上，这似乎是可能的。 “这是真的，”首席法官严肃地承认。 “因为这里的鼻涕虫报告说，他和狗屎呼吸看到小嗝嗝和另外两个遇到了困难。 他试图帮助他们……”

'We did our best,' said Snotlout, sorrowfully and nobly, 'but we were swept away by the force of the current, weren't we, Dogsbreath?' Dogsbreath grunted, and removed his helmet out of respect for the dead. 'It's a tragedy,' sighed Snotlout. 'Hiccup was like a brother to me…' Stoick gave a groan of sadness, terrible to hear, and turned away. 'Don't worry, Stoick, my dear chap,' Bertha comforted him awkwardly. 'Camicazi is with him, and, trust me, she always turns up all right… She could escape from Valhalla itself…' 'And so Madguts demands his prize,' smiled Gumboil silkily. 'And he demands… the kingdoms of Stoick and Bertha, who should be taken immediately from this beach, and up to the Sky Burial Place on the clifftops to be sacrificed to the Sky Dragons!'

“我们尽了最大的努力，”鼻鼻子悲伤而高贵地说，“但我们被激流卷走了，是不是，狗息？”狗息哼了一声，出于对死者的尊重，他摘下了头盔。 “这是一场悲剧。” “小嗝嗝就像我的兄弟……”斯托伊克发出一声悲伤的呻吟，听起来很可怕，然后转过身去。 “别担心，斯托伊克，我亲爱的小伙子，”伯莎尴尬地安慰他。 “卡米卡齐和他在一起，而且，相信我，她总是出现得很好……她可以从英灵殿逃走……” “他还要求……把斯托伊克和伯莎王国的人，立即从这个海滩带走，带到悬崖顶上的天葬地，献给天龙！”

'Whaaaaaaaat?' roared the Hooligans and the Bog-Burglars in fury. Uproar on the beach. 'But… but… but this is outrageous!' stuttered Bertha. 'He can't ask for that!' 'I hope you're not going to go back on your word, Bertha,' Gumboil wagged a warning finger at the apoplectic Bog-Burglar Chief. 'Don't be such a bad sport. I am presuming that if YOU had won, you would have expected Madguts to do YOUR bidding…' 'This is just a Friendly Swimming Race! We were only going to ask for Madguts to cross the Sullen Sea in a bathtub with his underpants on his head!' yelled Bertha indignantly. 'More fool you,' smiled Gumboil. Madguts is only asking what Stoick's ancestor, Grimbeard the Ghastly, asked of Madguts' ancestor, way back in the bad old days…' Old Wrinkly had been trying to interrupt for some time. He got to his feet and cleared his throat. 'A small technical point, Your Wheeziness,' said Old Wrinkly to the Chief Judge. 'Let me tell again that story from the bad old days, the Saga of Grimbeard the Ghastly and the Swimming Race. Just in case there are some people here who do not know it.'

“Whaaaaaaaat ?流氓和强盗们愤怒地吼道。 海滩上一片喧嚣。“可是……可是……可是这太过分了！”伯莎结结巴巴地说。 “他不能这样要求！”“我希望你不要食言，伯莎。”Gumboil朝勃然大怒的沼泽飞贼头子摇了摇手指，警告他。 “别这么没礼貌。 我想，如果你赢了，你一定会希望Madguts听从你的命令……”我们只是想让疯子在浴缸里把内裤套在头上渡过阴沉的海！伯莎愤怒地喊道。 “更傻了，”Gumboil笑着说。 麦德古斯只是在问斯托伊克的祖先，可怕的Grimbeard，问麦德古斯的祖先，那是在很久以前的糟糕日子里……” 他站了起来，清了清嗓子。 “一个小小的技术问题，你的气喘，”老皱纹对首席法官说。 “让我再讲一遍那个糟糕的过去的故事，鬼胡子和游泳比赛的传奇。 以防这里有人不知道。”

The saga of GRIMBEARD THE GHASTLY and the SWIMMING RACE Grimbeard the Ghastly was Stoick's great-great-grandfather, a wicked, successful pirate who became the last King of the Archipelago. One day, Murderous the Magnificent challenged Grimbeard the Ghastly to a swimming race, and the two chiefs agreed the winner should be granted a single demand. So one cold morning they set out from the Western Beach of the Murderous Mountains. Murderous the Magnificent finally swam back to the same beach in seventy- one hours and forty-two minutes, nearly three days in total. His face had swollen to twice the size and his body was so covered in wrinkles he looked like he had been pickled in the brine. The Hooligan Tribe waited on the beach hoping and hoping for their chief to return. After a week, they accepted that he must have drowned, and conceded the victory to the Murderous Tribe. Murderous the Magnificent claimed the Kingdom of the Archipelago, and that, everybody thought, was the end of the matter. However, three months later, Murderous the Magnificent was conducting a night-time banquet on that very same beach. The highlight of the banquet was the human sacrifice under the stars. Just before the sacrifice took place, Grimbeard the

格里姆胡子是斯托伊克的曾曾祖父，一个邪恶而成功的海盗，后来成为了群岛的最后一位国王。 有一天，凶神恶煞向可怕的Grimbeard发起了游泳比赛，两位首领一致认为，获胜者应该得到一个单一的要求。 于是，在一个寒冷的早晨，他们从凶残山脉的西部海滩出发了。 凶残的华丽号终于游回了原来的海滩，花了71小时42分钟，总共花了将近3天。 他的脸肿了一倍大，身上布满了皱纹，看起来就像在盐水里泡过一样。 流氓部落在海滩上等着，盼望着他们的酋长回来。 一个星期后，他们承认他一定是淹死了，并把胜利让给了杀人部落。 凶残的威风夺去了群岛王国的所有权，大家都以为事情就到此为止了。 然而，三个月后，“华丽杀手”在同一个海滩上举办了一场夜间宴会。 宴会的高潮是星光下的人祭。 就在祭祀开始之前，Grimbeard

Ghastly came staggering out of the surf. He was barely recognisable. Half-human, half-monster, with skin like a dragon, all entwined with seaweed, and he had shark's teeth around his calves like bracelets. Grimbeard the Ghastly staggered up the beach and collapsed. Murderous the Magnificent raised up his sword to kill what he thought was some kind of demon… then he saw that the monster was wearing around its waist Grimbeard the Ghastly's famous sword, the Stormblade! The next words that Grimbeard spoke, as he lay gasping for breath on the sand, can be repeated proudly by every Hooligan schoolboy, so well-known are they: 'Stay your hand, Murderous the Magnificent. I am no ghost. It is I, Grimbeard the Ghastly, who have the Greatest Stomach after all. I have survived the Open Ocean, by the will of Thor, without seeking aid from float or boat, I am the last man back, and I am come to claim my Kingdom for the Hooligan Tribe!' I am afraid that Grimbeard the Ghastly, who was not a nice man, then insisted as his demand that Murderous the Magnificent should be sacrificed to the Sky Dragons. The Annual Inter-Tribe Swimming Race has been held every year in memory of this historical event, but over the years it has become more of a friendly competition.

可怕的东西摇摇晃晃地从海浪中出来。 他几乎认不出来了。 半人半兽，皮肤像龙，浑身缠着海草，小腿上像手镯一样缠着鲨鱼的牙齿。 可怕的绿胡子摇摇晃晃地爬上海滩，瘫倒在地。 凶残的威严举起他的剑去杀死一个他认为是某种恶魔的怪物……然后他看到怪物的腰上戴着幽灵的著名的剑——风暴之刃！格林胡子躺在沙滩上喘着粗气时说的下一句话，每个流氓学生都可以自豪地重复，因为这句话太出名了：“住手，凶残的大人物。” 我不是鬼。毕竟是我，可怕的Grimbeard，拥有最大的胃。 根据托尔的意愿，我在公海上幸存了下来，没有寻求漂浮物或船只的帮助，我是最后一个回来的人，我来为流氓部落宣称我的王国！”我担心可怕的Grimbeard，他不是一个好人，然后坚持他的要求，凶残的伟大应该牺牲给天龙。 为了纪念这一历史事件，每年都会举行年度部落间游泳比赛，但多年来，它已成为一项更友好的比赛。