14 The Lost Throne of the Wilderwest

14. THE LOST THRONE OF THE WILDERWEST 'For many years, the Barbaric Archipelago was run by the Kings of the Wilderwest,' began the voice of the witch in the darkness. 'The King was the fiercest, the boldest, the most ferocious of the Chiefs of the Barbaric Archipelago, and for many years, the position was held by the Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. 'Grimbeard the Ghastly was the last of these Kings, the toughest and most ruthless pirate the Archipelago had ever seen, and his kingdom stretched as far as the eye could see. He even fought and defeated the King of the Mainland, and forced him into exile, so that Grimbeard the Ghastly's lands included not only these islands, but the vast Mainland territories inland. 'Grimbeard the Ghastly enslaved every human who wasn't a Viking, and he was such a successful pirate that he became disgustingly rich. The little island of Berk was no longer big enough for him. With the help of thousands of slaves, and dragons in chains, he built a great city on the island of Tomorrow. 'All was going well for Grimbeard. He had a son, Thugheart, the spitting image of himself. And another

14. “多年来，野蛮群岛由狂野西部的国王统治，”黑暗中女巫的声音开始了。 “国王是野蛮群岛酋长中最凶猛、最大胆、最凶残的，多年来，这个职位一直由流氓部落的酋长担任。 “可怕的Grimbeard是这些国王中最后的一个，是群岛所见过的最强硬、最无情的海盗，他的王国一望无际。 他甚至打败了大陆的国王，并迫使他流亡，所以阴森魔王的土地不仅包括这些岛屿，还包括广阔的大陆内陆地区。 “可怕的Grimbeard奴役了每一个不是维京人的人，他是一个如此成功的海盗，他变得非常富有。 伯克这个小岛对他来说已经不够大了。 在成千上万的奴隶和被锁住的龙的帮助下，他在明日岛上建造了一座伟大的城市。 “对Grimbeard来说一切都很顺利。 他有个儿子，叫流氓心，长得和他一模一样。 和另一个

son, Chucklehead, who was the spitting image of Thugheart. 'He was a happy, violent man, who cheerfully robbed his neighbours, ate heartily, drank heartily, fought like a cornered bear, and loved nobody but himself. 'His third son was born, on the 29th of February, a Leap Year… 'He was a bonny baby who slipped out of his mother without a sound, bright blue eyes wide open with an expression of eager surprise in them, and a shock of bright blond hair. Even as a newborn, he seemed to be looking about him with a sense of joyous adventure, a sense of the excitement of everything about him. 'He did not realise that he was not destined to enjoy the world for very long. For he was too small, you see. He was a runt.' Hiccup had forgotten already that he didn't want to hear this story. He interrupted indignantly at this point. 'What do you mean he was a runt?' 'I mean he was a RUNT,' said the voice hatefully. 'They took him to the Naming Dame and they were hoping she would call him Fatlegs or Dragonheart, or something Viking-y, but she could see

他的儿子，恰克黑德，简直就是暴徒的化身。 “他是一个快乐而粗暴的人，他兴高采烈地抢劫邻居，尽情地吃，尽情地喝，像一只走投无路的熊一样打架，除了自己谁也不爱。 “他的第三个儿子在闰年2月29日出生了……”他是一个漂亮的婴儿，无声无息地从他母亲的怀里溜了出来，明亮的蓝眼睛睁得大大的，里面流露出渴望惊奇的表情，还有一头浓密的金发。 即使作为一个新生儿，他似乎也带着一种快乐的冒险感，一种对他周围的一切都感到兴奋的感觉。 “他没有意识到，他注定不能长久地享受这个世界。 因为他太小了，你知道。 他是个矮子。”小嗝嗝已经忘记了他不想听这个故事。 说到这里，他气愤地打断了我。 “你说他是个矮子是什么意思？”“我是说他是个矮子。”那声音恨恨地说。 他们把他带到命名夫人那里，希望她能叫他胖腿或龙心，或者什么维京人的名字，但她能看见

instantly what the poor besotted parents couldn't see and she named him HICCUP.' 'Why did she name him HICCUP?' asked Hiccup, trying to sound casual and just mildly interested. He already had a horrible feeling that the witch had guessed who he was, Thor only knows how. Or why was she telling him this story about his own Tribe, his own ancestors? 'Because that's what they call the RUNTS in the Hooligan Tribe,' said the witch impatiently. 'Hiccup means "accident", you see. Well, of course the moment the Naming Dame named him a runt, everybody knew he had to be got rid of. For if a RUNT survives till adulthood in the Hooligan Tribe, he brings with him an unlucky Fate, the Fate of changing the course of history. 'Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the First had caused his father to lose his entire kingdom in the rich farmlands of the east, so that the Hooligan Tribe had to settle in the barren island wastes of the Archipelago. 'This boy would have to be named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Second, and there was a good chance that he would bring the same bad luck on his family as the first Hiccup.' Hiccup's heart beat fast in the darkness. Hiccup

这是可怜的父母看不到的，她给他起名叫HICCUP。“她为什么给他起名叫嗝嗝？”小嗝嗝问，试图让自己听起来很随意，只是有点感兴趣。 他已经有一种可怕的感觉，女巫已经猜到了他是谁，托尔只知道怎么猜到的。 或者为什么她要告诉他这个关于他自己部落，他自己祖先的故事？ “因为流氓部落里的矮子就是这么叫的。”女巫不耐烦地说。 “你知道，Hiccup的意思是‘意外’。 当然了，当圣母点名点名的那一刻起，每个人都知道他必须被除掉。 因为如果一个矮子在流氓部落中存活到成年，他就会带来不幸的命运，改变历史进程的命运。 西卡普·可怕的阿道克一世使他的父亲失去了东部富饶的土地上的整个王国，因此流氓部落不得不在群岛的荒岛上定居下来。 “这个男孩应该被命名为‘小嗝嗝可怕黑线鳕二世’，他很有可能会像第一个小嗝嗝一样给他的家庭带来厄运。”小嗝嗝的心在黑暗中跳得很快。 打嗝

had only recently found out that he had a Secret Ancestor, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Second, who had been a Dragonwhisperer like himself.* *Hiccup found this out in A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons. Now he was sitting here, hearing his story. Goosebumps prickled all over Hiccup's head. 'Grimbeard was nothing if not a stern man,' continued the witch. 'He had no intention of letting his son live to bring bad luck on his family in the same way as the first Hiccup. It was a shame and whatnot, but he already had Thugheart and Chucklehead, after all. So he allowed the boy to be named HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK THE SECOND in a very elaborate naming ceremony, while secretly making plans for the baby's murder. He knew that his son needed to be exposed on the mountainside, in accordance with Hooligan tradition. He also knew that his wife Chinhilda, a spirited woman who was handy with an axe, would not necessarily agree with this course of action. 'Women could be so unreasonable. 'So with his own hands Grimbeard stole the sleeping baby from his sleeping wife's breast… He climbed on board his Riding-Dragon, and he flew to a neighbouring island, where he left his sleeping son, his own flesh and blood, on a mountainside to perish.

直到最近，他才发现自己有一个神秘的祖先——西卡普·可怕的阿道克二世，他和他一样，也是一个龙语者。* *嗝嗝在《致命龙的英雄指南》中发现了这一点。 现在他坐在这里，听着他的故事。 小嗝嗝的头上起了鸡皮疙瘩。 “Grimbeard是个严厉的人，”巫婆继续说。 “他不打算让他的儿子像第一次打嗝一样给他的家庭带来厄运。 这是一个耻辱什么的，但他毕竟已经有了恶棍心和傻帽。 因此，他在一个非常精心的命名仪式上允许这个男孩被命名为HICCUP可怕的黑线鳕二世，同时秘密地计划谋杀这个婴儿。 他知道，按照流氓的传统，他的儿子需要被暴露在山腰上。 他也知道，他的妻子钦希尔达（Chinhilda），一个精力充沛、善于使用斧头的女人，不一定会同意这种做法。 “女人也会这么不讲道理。 “于是，Grimbeard亲手从他熟睡的妻子怀里偷走了熟睡的婴儿……他爬上了他的飞龙，飞到了邻近的一个岛上，把他熟睡的儿子，他自己的骨肉，留在了山腰上，让他自己死去。”

He left him there under a little bush of heather that dripped down like tears on the baby's crib. And then he climbed back on his Riding-Dragon and soared off without so much as a backward glance, for Grimbeard had never particularly liked babies, and when it cried, as babies will, this one resembled nothing so much as a screaming tomato. A rather SMELLY screaming tomato. To tell the truth, he had felt sadder when he had to put down one of his favourite Rottdragons, who had been injured in a fight. As he flew back over the salty waves towards his beautiful city on the island of Tomorrow, he wondered what would be for supper tonight. Pig's trotters, he hoped. That was his favourite. 'Chinhilda did not accept Grimbeard's perfectly reasonable explanation. She was so angry when she awoke that she picked up her sword and attacked him then and there. Grimbeard the Ghastly won the swordfight, but refused to kill her. She then broke down in tears, and begged him to tell her where he had left the baby. Which was very annoying of her, because it made Grimbeard feel uncomfortable, and he hated to feel uncomfortable. He refused to tell her of course, and got his guards to drag her out of his presence so that he could enjoy his pig's trotters in peace and quiet. As they dragged her away, she

他把他留在了一小丛石南花下面，石南花像眼泪一样滴在婴儿床上。 然后他爬上他的飞龙，飞了起来，连回头也不回头看一眼，因为Grimbeard从来都不特别喜欢婴儿，当它哭的时候，就像婴儿一样，这一个就像一个尖叫的西红柿。 一个相当臭的尖叫番茄。 说实话，他最喜欢的一条罗特龙在一场打斗中受伤了，他不得不把它撂倒，这让他感到更难过。 当他飞过咸咸的海浪，飞向明天岛上美丽的城市时，他在想今晚的晚餐吃什么。 他希望是猪蹄。那是他的最爱。 钦希尔达不接受Grimbeard完全合理的解释。 当她醒来时，她非常生气，她拿起剑，当场就攻击了他。 可怕的Grimbeard赢得了这场剑战，但拒绝杀死她。 然后她哭了起来，恳求他告诉她他把孩子放在哪里了。 这让她很恼火，因为这让Grimbeard感到不舒服，而他讨厌不舒服。 当然，他拒绝告诉她，并让他的卫兵把她从他面前拖走，这样他就可以安静地享受他的猪蹄了。 当他们把她拖走时，她

cursed him– a terrible curse, for it was the curse of a sorceress– and left in her boat to look for her lost son. For many many years, her white boat could be seen, looking and looking for the lost baby. Until finally it was seen no more. It is said that her ghost still haunts the Bay of the Broken Heart…' 'Oh, for Thor's sake…' said Hiccup. 'I thought that was just a story…' 'Stories come from somewhere,' said the witch. 'The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise. 'Grimbeard was rather relieved to have been let off so lightly. 'He could now get on with his fighting, and his eating, and his drinking without her nagging him, or crying at him. 'But to his surprise, Grimbeard found that he wasn't enjoying the burglary, and the fighting, and the drinking, and the eating quite as much as he used to. 'Even the beer didn't taste the same. 'He couldn't understand it. 'He got rid of his cook, and hired a new one, but it didn't make any difference. 'The beer was less beery, and the pig's trotters less piggy, and none of those idiot Warriors could put

诅咒了他——一个可怕的诅咒，因为这是一个女巫的诅咒——然后坐船去寻找她丢失的儿子。 许多许多年以来，人们都能看到她的白色小船，寻找着那个丢失的婴儿。 直到最后再也看不见了。 据说她的鬼魂还在心碎湾出没……”“哦，看在托尔的份上……” “故事总是有出处的。”女巫说。 “过去以比我们意识到的更多的方式困扰着现在。 格林大胡子对这么轻松地被释放感到相当宽慰。 他现在可以继续他的战斗，他的吃，他的喝，没有她的唠叨，或哭他。 但令他吃惊的是，Grimbeard发现他不像以前那样喜欢偷东西、打架、喝酒和吃东西了。 甚至连啤酒的味道都不一样了。 他无法理解。 他解雇了他的厨师，又雇了一个新厨师，但并没有什么效果。 啤酒没那么啤酒味了，猪蹄没那么猪味了，那些白痴勇士们没有一个能